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The Tutor

How-to use the Google Analytics interface

A friend of mine just mentioned that they found Google Analytics a bit confusing the more you dive in to all the features and tools. ...

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The Tutor

63 signs you’re addicted to Google and the Church of Search

After reading Mark’s post the other day and announcing I can easily survive without Google I realized something — I’m really probably one of the biggest ...

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Mark O

Setting a website geographic location in Google Webmaster Tools

If you own a website that is reliant on attracting local visitors then until now, there was no easy way to specify a specific geographic location ...

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The Tutor

PR dropped to 4. Presumed guilty.

Yeah, I know, I’m late to the PR drop whine party but yesterday GT’s dropped from a strong 5 to 4 so I thought I’d share ...

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The Tutor

Killer guide to the robots meta tag

Joost over at his SEO blog has a great guide to the robots meta tag today, everything you need is there on one short page. Check ...

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The Tutor

Wordpress plugin: Google powered 404

I haven’t tested it myself yet, but this new plugin for Wordpress looks pretty nice: AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax ...

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How to control BlogRush headlines with WordPress

John Chow came up with a pretty neat way to control your BlogRush headlines but the whole process was a little too manual for me so I ...

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The Tutor

BlogRush is kickin it - 15,602 credits and counting!

Well, for me anyway. I know some others aren’t getting much traffic from BlogRush yet, not sure why. Here’s my stats so far: Direct traffic seems to have ...

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Sphere It can Suck It

I took the Sphere It widget off the site last night after having it running almost since they launched. Why? No traffic. And I mean zero, zip, ...

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The Tutor

5min = 182 visitors in 24hrs!

Not bad, eh? After reading about and loving the idea of BlogRush (if it works) I signed up sometime yesterday and added it to the site. And ...

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WebProNews loses all credibility, asks John Chow about Google rankings!?

WTF? I like WPN and John Chow but what is going on here!? Let’s see WPN is know for: Usually decent tech info, especially on the SEO/SEM side ...

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The Tutor

The URL according to Google

Matt’s got a nice write up of how they refer to an URL within Google. For the most part it’s not Google specific at all making ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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The Tutor

Office Live better than Google Page Creator?

Christine Churchill reviews Office Live, Google Pages and Yahoo SiteBuilder and rates Office Live as the best entry level solution. I’d expect Office Live to beat out ...

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Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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The Tutor

Google Tutor on Webmaster Radio!

I just got caught up with my podcast listening this morning and man did I pick a bad time to get behind! Turns out my boys DaveN ...

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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 ...

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The Tutor

How to get Google and Yahoo to stop showing your directory listing in their results

At times both Google and Yahoo can show your directory listing as your listing in their search engine results, instead of your natural listing. Google does this ...

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Peter Jalbert

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), ...

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Redirects again, or does Google just have a problem with Authority?

As you’d expect “GMail” is a very popular search term at Google, and look at what I’m seeing sitting at #6 today: That’s a redirect link direct ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Sitemaps’ Useful SEO Tools

One of the most useful utilities that the engineers and think tank at Google have ever devised is the Google Sitemaps program. The said program, which is ...

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Peter Jalbert

Rundown Of Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an excellent solution for all one’s website related needs, starting from the source which brought the visitors to your site to how they ...

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Matt Cutts pulls the wool over on webmasters

Yesterday I linked everyone off to Matt’s PageRank post. I figured it was worth a mention because I can’t really remember him discussing PR in depth like that publicly…ever really. But then ...

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Matt Cutts answers PageRank questions

The other day Matt replied to some reader questions about PR and the recent update, its worth a quick read. There are some interesting questions like:  Philipp Lenssen asks: ...

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Peter Jalbert

Getting Paid To Do Research For Google

Google is seeking participants to test their new services and products. Their User Experience Research Program recruits relevant Google users to test new developments across their service ...

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