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New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors

Jun — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:58:38 +0000

Now it’s getting better. You can now setup an alert within your webmaster tools, to inform you if there are spikes in crawl errors within your site. though this doesn’t always mean a problem in your site, it is always useful to know when something seems to go wrong.

Here’s the latest from the official Google Webmaster Central blog.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors.

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Primal: Semantically Driven Keyword Research

Jun — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:21:28 +0000

Here’s a really good post from Ann Smarty of Search Engine Journal. She is talking about another player in the keyword research world. The program looks very promising especially that it offers semantically related keywords and phrases. This could be usefully when writing an article or when setting up a PPC campaign. Maybe of more use to some people.

Here’s the link to the article:

Primal: Semantically Driven Keyword Research and Brainstorming Assistant Search Engine Journal.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

Jun — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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SEO Competitor Research with Excel

Jun — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:56:04 +0000

I just found this very useful tool from the Search Engine People blog. This excel file makes competitive research easier to do. You can see who are your strongest competitors as well as know how strong they are.

The best thing about the tool is that you can choose which web server you would want to use, which makes it very handy when you are doing international SEO and geo-targeting.

Thanks to Yoav Ezer for sharing this awesome tool.

How to Perform SEO Competitor Research with Excel | Search Engine People | Toronto.

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I Love CommentLuv

Jun — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:12:42 +0000

I just installed this awesome WordPress comment plugin, the commentluv. This plugin allows a blogger to see somebody’s latest blog post when leaving a comment. It’s two birds in one stone actually. The blogger will get to know the commenter more by clicking on the latest blog post link, and the commenter won’t have to link drop anymore since it’s automatic.

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Google Adwords Broad Match Modifier

Jun — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:31:16 +0000

In my 4 years in PPC campaign management, I sparingly use broad matched keywords. This is because I find it very hard to control how the matches are being done. Somebody has to monitor the search queries that trigger the impression and click, and setup negatives when deemed necessary. A bit tedious task.

Then came the broad match modifier. The description in the article below looks very promising for this match type. This is a “soon to see” thing though since it’s pretty early to tell if this works out some magic.

See the article below from the official Google Adwords blog:

New keyword targeting feature rolling out globally – Inside AdWords.

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Video Sitemaps – Google’s Official Reference Guide

Jun — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:22:44 +0000

Now it’s getting better. Since more and more videos are getting into search results, it’s only reasonable for Google to provide a guide for those who want their videos crawled and indexed by Google, and thus appear on SERPs.

So for webmasters who have videos in their sites, here’s a quick rundown on the subject matter:

Google Launches Official Reference Guide For Video Sitemaps.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

Jun — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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Google’s Latest Patent About Links

Jun — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:31:51 +0000

Another great post from Search Engine Land regarding Google’s viewpoint on links. Throughout the whole SEO community, there are varied assumptions/assertions on the value of links, anchor texts, and relevance to target content from source.

Read on to see some viewpoints on Google’s patents on links:

5 Things Google’s Latest Patent Tells Me About Links.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

Jun — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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Link Building with the Experts – An Interview

Jun — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:57:13 +0000

Here’s a very long but very good interview on link building. As most of the search engine marketers know, link building plays a very important role in search engine rankings. So take your time in reading the article below:

Link Building with the Experts Interview.

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Video SEO – by the Gypsy

Jun — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:23:45 +0000

Been following this topic for quite some time now. Since more and more people are into videos, whether through social media sharing, tutorials, product presentation, and anything else.

Video SEO is now a must. Here’s a very good article from the Gypsy:

Video SEO for Ecommerce | Universal Search | Search Engines.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04

Jun — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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Video SEO: A Technical Guide

Jun — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:16:20 +0000

Here’s a very good technical guide to video SEO. As people are more and more into videos, it is very important to get your videos the exposure they deserve. Optimize and publicize your videos.

Video SEO: A Technical Guide – Yoast – Tweaking Websites.

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The Free Beginner’s Guide for SEO

Jun — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:11:06 +0000

SEOmoz, one of the most trusted names in SEO, released this very informative and comprehensive beginner’s guide to SEO. This to me is not only helpful to the beginners but to old-timers alike. A very good refresher course to the seasoned SEO.

SEO: The Free Beginner’s Guide From SEOmoz.

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Improved Keyword Diagnosis – Google AdWords

Jun — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:35:25 +0000

Another good tool from Google Adwords. This time an advertiser is able to diagnose the keywords in each campaign.

Here’s the link from Google Adwords’ official blog:

Improved keyword diagnosis — no appointments necessary – Inside AdWords.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Jun — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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Jun — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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Jun — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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Jun — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:42:00 +0000

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