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February
Says Cutts, “Google typically returns search results in milliseconds, but it takes several seconds for you to type a query. In other words, the limiting factor on a typical search is you.” No wonder everyone’s so worried about keeping up with Google Instant! You can bet we’ll be watching over the next few months to [...]
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February
Some people are concerned about the impact Google Instant will have on ads and sponsored links at Google, and the chorus of search-engine commentators has been debating whether “Google Instant will kill SEO”, a concern that seems to accompany every major change that Google rolls out … Despite some negative early press, Google seems confident [...]
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February
It hasn’t even been three weeks since Google rocked the boat by streaming search results with Google Instant, but the Big G is back in the news with another new toy for the surfing public: their very own URL shortener, goo.gl, has gone live. What advantages does goo.gl have over existing URL shorteners? Speed, stability, [...]
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February
After Google conquered the Internet and shouldered into America’s notoriously closed cell-phone industry, they announced plans to take over TV too at Google I/O (Google’s developer conference) this May. Yesterday, five months after that ambitious announcement, the Google TV team released a list of content partners that should impress any television watcher: Turner Broadcasting NBC [...]
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February
Google announces a change in their algorithm, which now affects a visitors search results. With this algorithm update, now a user might see three or more results from a single domain. Think about seeing your company’s brand ALL over the 1st page of Google! Today we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will [...]
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February
Ah, the iPad. Normally it’s bad form to review products months before they ship — speculating on vaporware may be entertaining but it’s seldom very informative. Well, it’s been less than a week since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, and already pretty much everyone has weighed in with exhaustive analyses of the flat Apple. It [...]
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February
Odds are you’ve heard enough about Twitter and Facebook this year to make you nostalgic for the good old days of “e-mail” and phone trees — but once the frothy hype has been stripped away, it can be hard to tell if these new social-networking tools have anything to offer a commercial website. Like pay-per-click [...]
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February
People always assume that once they have a website, everyone and their mother will know about it, instantly. This just isn’t the case. Millions of dollars, and many months of development, can go into the creation of a great website. Think about it, the internet, as most know it, has been around nearly 20 years. [...]
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February
Once upon a time McDonald’s homepage looked like this. Chevrolet called this their homepage. Compare that look to both companies’ current sites! (McDonald’s, Chevrolet) It can be hard to say whether sexy Flash interfaces, video intros, and animated navigation improve a visitor’s experience or simply waste time and bandwidth … but it’s clear that the [...]
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February
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to style an HTML document. A typical website has a single CSS file that stores the styles for any given area of a website. In it’s simplest form, CSS can control font styles, such as; size, color, weight and font family. It’s main purpose is to enable [...]