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How does Google work?

redstarweb — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:14:43 +0000

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What Does Google’s Caffeine Mean to You?

redstarweb — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:38:41 +0000

by Stone Reuning (from: searchengineguide.com) Google’s new system for indexing content on the Internet, Caffeine, went live June 8. It used to be that Google updated its indexes every couple weeks. Now it’s darn close to real time. This is good news if you update your content regularly. Since Google now refreshes its index much [...]

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Site speed now part of Google algorithm

redstarweb — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:43:56 +0000

From the official Google Webmaster Central Using site speed in web search ranking You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly [...]

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Google Calling for link spam reports

redstarweb — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:01:08 +0000

From Matt Cutts Blog **** Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), [...]

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Google caffeine coming after the holidays – Page speed ranking influance

redstarweb — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:37:44 +0000

From: WebProNews Google’s Matt Cutts discussed two key ingredients of where Google is headed in an interview with WebProNews out in Vegas. The first of these ingredients is of course Google’s much discussed Algorithm update (Caffeine), which was recently found to begin rolling out soon. The fact of the matter, as Matt himself says, is [...]

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What is a canonical page?

redstarweb — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:39:16 +0000

Many sites have similar page content in their websites. Often named as duplicated content. If search engines (like Google) will find duplicated content, then Google will index only one version. And in your case this could be the wrong version (page) and you could miss a lot of potential traffic. This is what we call [...]

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Google caffeine

redstarweb — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:14:31 +0000

Info on the Caffeine Update Google recently opened up a preview of our new Caffeine update, and I wanted to give a little more background on this change. At the Real-Time CrunchUp a few weeks ago, I joked that the half-life of code at Google is about six months. That means that you can write [...]

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PageRank sculpting

redstarweb — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:02:51 +0000

By Matt Cutts People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which the value at position (i,j) [...]

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Link exchanges: The poor man’s SEO

redstarweb — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:15:09 +0000

Source: CNN.com (CNET) — Large Internet companies spend millions on consultants and technology trying to get their sites to rank among the highest results on Google. Everyone else has to rely on the poor man’s search-engine optimization: the link exchange. If you’ve ever hung up your own shingle on the Web, you’ve probably gotten an [...]

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Traffic drops and site architecture issues

redstarweb — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:54:10 +0000

From: Webmaster Central Blog – by Luisella MazzaWebmaster Level: Intermediate. We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at SMX London and I’d like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let’s gain a better [...]

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