Creating Tabs on iGoogle
Earlier, we had discussed how to personalize your Google Search Page using iGoogle. As mentioned, there is a feature that allows you to add tabs to ...
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Personalize Your Web Search Experience With iGoogle
Back in the early days, Google and Yahoo! were not the search engine giants that they are right now. You would probably remember the portals and ...
Using Google’s Blogsearch Portal for Advertising
With online advertising growing exponentially today, it is a must for advertisers to find ways to increase traffic to their sites, while keeping advertising costs to ...
Quick Google Search Tip: FireFox Suggests For You
Remember our post a few days ago about Google Suggest? Well, it turns out you don’t have to actually browse to Google Labs’ Suggest page to ...
Google Suggest - When You Don’t Know What To Look For
This has been under development by Google Labs for a long time now, and I don’t think they’ve put out a “full” release just yet. Still, ...
Google vs. Paid Links
Google is against paid links, or at least that’s how it appears from a recent post by Google’s quality control and anti-spam guy Matt Cutts. One thing ...
Check the most popular anchor text to your site
Here’s a quick SEO tip to webmasters and bloggers. Google gives you a way to check which anchor texts are most commonly used to link to your ...
Matt Cutts Talks About The Next Generation Of Search
Okay, another Matt Cutts post here. Read/Write Web recently interviewed Matt Cutts, one of the public faces of Google (although not officially so). The topic was ...
I’m proud to announce the launch of Research Google!
It slices, it dices, nah…but it does dig deep to get the dirt on Google! Saturday morning I decided it was time to take Google Co-op for ...
DIGG: A Quickie Way To Get A PR 4 to 6
DIGG sure is a quick way to get from zero to something on Google, at least pagerank-wise. And no, you don’t have to get frontpaged all ...
How To Prevent Google From Displaying Snippets And Taking Caches
The Google Blog has a great but straightforward tutorial on how to prevent snippets of text from your page being displayed on Google search results (SERPS), ...
Is rel=nofollow Dead?
The rel=”nofollow” microformat tag has been lauded as one good way to prevent spam in blog and social media software. Blog commenting systems can easily by ...
Blogger blogs accidentally removed from search engines
Yikes! I missed this post last week about Blogger automatically adding the meta noindex tag to all Blogger blogs. That’s bad, and although it appears to ...
Why the Anchor Text is Important
At first it may not seem that a link’s anchor text is relevant. If you’re a blogger, for instance, linking to another site using different ...
Does Google really care about our Privacy?
As Google grows that question is becoming more and more important and other bloggers have rehashed the topic to death already so I won’t! Instead ...
Live Pagerank Checker
Rumor has it that Google has again updated pageranks just recently. This is done several times per year, but even most Google insiders don’t know when ...
Using robots.txt To Prevent Google From Indexing Your Site
There may be some reasons why you wouldn’t want Google to index your site. For one, there’s privacy. Sometimes you might have folders on your web ...
How to Deflect a Google Bomb
Okay, we recently wrote about someone who stands the chance of getting Googlebombed pretty soon. While we don’t condone Googlebombing (the fun activity that it is!), ...
Optimizing for Google Image Search
Let’s take a little break from talking about the different wonderful Web apps that Google has made to make our lives easier. Google’s core business is ...
Using Google Trends to Confirm the Google Zeitgeist 2006 Results
It’s a new year once again, folks, and Google usually celebrates year-ends with a Zeitgeist. By definition, “zeitgest” comes from the German terms zeit, which means ...
Improving Your Rankings in Google Accessible Search
Earlier, we wrote about the news that Google Labs has a new beta product out, the Accessible Search. This is a very useful tool for Google ...
Google Launches Accessible Search
Google’s motto, is “do no evil,” and its mission is to organize information and make it universally accesible. So the aim is to bring information to ...
Want to be Google Optimized? Then Start a Blog! (Part 2)
Optimizing for Google searches can be a daunting task if you’re new to search engine optimization. While many people would prefer to outsource SEO to other ...
Want to be Google Optimized? Then Start a Blog!
In the three years that I’ve been blogging, there’s one thing that I consistently notice among the blogs that I’ve written and written for–most of the ...
Predicting Your Position on Google Search Results
Say you have a site, and you’re aiming to optimize for several keywords. It’s always easy to check on your position on Google’s search results pages ...
