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India’s SearchMasters 2009 Round-up

Here’s a short video with Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik about SearchMasters 2009 in India.

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Blogger Joins Twitter

Blogger Joins Twitter

Recently, Google’s blogging platform, Blogger, joined the Twitter micro-blogging-craze. There’s been rave after rave about Twitter; Twitter-this, Twitter-that. Blogger finally joined Twitter. “We will be posting status updates, major feature announcements, and pointers to cool uses of Blogger will all show up in our Twitter account.” There are already other well-known Googlers on Twitter though, [...]

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Google Introduces AJAX Patent Search API

Awesome! There’s an AJAX Patent Search API tool available. There’s no possibility of there being a downside, right? Well hold up a second there. Who cares if tools are available if the data is old. Frankly, I don’t care about any magical tool being available unless the content gets updated. I e-mailed Adam Lasnik about [...]

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Join the Google Webmaster Team this Friday!

Adam Lasnik has extended an invitation for anyone with “…a phone (we’ll pay for the call), a sufficiently-modern web browser, and an internet connection…” to join the Webmaster Central group for a phone conference. This will be a great opportunity for people that may have felt unheard, to finally get their voice heard. I know [...]

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XML + XSLT = Good SEO? Let’s Find Out

Here is the thread that I created in the Google Group of Crawling and Indexing. I’m hoping Matt Cutts or Adam Lasnik will be able to touch on the subject a bit. We have a few sites that rely heavily upon SEO. We also have a lot of sites on our server, so we want to minimize load time and maximize efficiency. With those key components in mind,

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Matt Cutts Doesn’t Respond to E-mail Anymore

So there have still been some things on my mind about paid links and that whole situation. I thought, “what better way to get some answers then to e-mail Matt directly for some feedback.” I was completely mistaken when I thought, for even a second, that I would get a real response. I just received [...]

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What Will Happen to PageRank

PageRank™ is part of how Google figures out what to show you in the results pages after submitting a search query. For example, when you search for “American government,” on Google, it will use PageRank as part of the formula to decide which page it’s going to show you as number one or number two, etc. There has been a lot of chatter among the SEOs and the

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Search Engines Strategies 2007 – San Jose, CA – Are you going?

I will be at SES 2007 in San Jose, CA next week helping with the TLA booth. I am really, REALLY, excited for the conference. I’ll hopefully be able to attend a couple select sessions, otherwise I’ll be at the TLA booth mostly. Anyone else (that reads this blog) going to SES 2007 that might want to get meetup? I’ll also be at Google Dance 2007

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LinkRush: March 6th, 2007

Matt Cutts on some great Gmail tips Lifehacker with 7 tips to improve your confidence Do not get lazy with your articles, with Adam Lasnik This is the first of what will be LinkRush articles. Links worth of mentioning.

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Adam Lasnik On Outbound Linking

It’s unlikely that your outbound linking is causing your pages to be listed in the supplemental, rather than main index. Also, be assured that we’re not looking to penalize folks for a “bad” link here and there. Rather, our algorithms are tuned to look for patterns of “egregious” linking behavior… both on individual sites and in the aggregate. With that said, it’s certainly in your users’ interest that you regularly

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Text Links Bad … Advertising Good!

Adam Lasnik has his 2 cents on this matter at WMW… A clarification haiku: Advertising’s fine Buying links for PR: bad Google senses much ;) So in short, PR building should be natural and not paid, but people are going to do it anyway…but Google knows, oh, they know.

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