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Google Voice is my new tool that I can now not live without. In fact, I have found it so helpful that I may replace my landline phone number posted on my website with my Google Voice phone number. This last trip, I found my Google Voice account to be an indispensable asset for any [...]

I just checked this out yesterday and as I was doing testing on this new Google.com tool I said to myself, “now, this is really cool”. What I am speaking about is Google’s integration of your own social media networks into your personal search results.  To get involved in the project sign into Google.com and [...]

This past week Google announced that its search results would be instantaneous. Meaning specifically that indexing the web every week or every month just had to go! They have to spider the web continuously to provide up the second results.
Sounds like Google is feeling the pinch with the popularity of Twitter news sharing and Facebook [...]

Not to worry, Google has said that they will hold this huge algorithm update until after the holidays, but except a new algorithm called Caffeine to roll out late December early January. Huge updates and strategic changes end up with names. The last really massive one that turned webmaster’s world upside down was called Florida [...]

I had a client call me the other day and wanted to know how to remove information about herself from Google.com. She told me she went on a date and her date knew everything about her from doing a Google search including family member names. She wanted the information removed.
Wow, most people want more information [...]

Google AdWords has done away with the local business ad that allowed you to specifically target Google Maps with your ads. For some AdWords programs we had set up separate campaigns just to feed results to the sponsored ad section on Google Maps with great results for some clients. With this important change for Google [...]

Blogger has a new protocol, if they think that your blog is spam, they lock it. That’s right, lock it.
We have an e-commerce client who happens to sell new issue stamps and we blog three days a week for him about interesting stamps, stamp trivia, stories about stamps, and cool information that you might not [...]

Matt Cutts the engineer from Google who speaks to the webmaster community has posted slides of tips for SEO blogging. When Google talks I listen!
Here’s a link to the blog post. When he posts a video on the topic I’ll embed it in another post so keep an eye out for it.
Matt likes WordPress for [...]