Using Google Web History
Google’s search personalization efforts have shown significant strides since the company first started it. What started as a simple product in Google labs that allows you ...
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Google Web History and Search Personalization
Have you noticed that what bugs us the most when we are looking for information is when we know at the back of our mind that ...
Bridging the Language Barrier in Search: Google Language Tools
Google might have started as a small (but full of potential) American company, but the company has many times stated that its goal is to become ...
Cool – Google search parameters cheat sheet
Joost has made a pretty handy Google search parameters cheat sheet that many of you may find useful. What are search parameters you ask? Search parameters are ...
Creating Your Own Search Engine using Google Custom Search
Google is undeniably the current search leader today, both in mind share in and actual market share. This is because Google has invested lots of time ...
Quick Search Tip: related and link operators
I would bet that the average Google user has not heard about using operators in their search syntax. The most common are the “+” and “-” ...
Twitter for SEO?
There’s a new phenomenon in the blogging world, and it’s called microblogging. Well, it’s not really that new, but then it’s only quite recently that its ...
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 ...
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!), ...
