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    Does an XML Site Map Help or Hurt Organic Placement

    February 20, 2012 - By Nancy McCord

    If you can’t include an XML site map on your website for some reason will this hurt you with search engines? My unequivocal answer is NO. Although we do recommend the creation and registering of an XML  site map with both Google and Bing (by using their Webmaster Control Panels), to…

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    Google Announces Another Algorithm Update Biased Against Ads

    January 23, 2012 - By Nancy McCord

    Just this past Friday, Matt Cutts, a key engineer at Google, announced an algorithm update for Google that is biased against ads. Although this update doesn’t have a name yet (and it will soon), it is a filter to remove websites from Google’s index that are top heavy on advertising.…

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    SEO Is Much More Than Code Optimization

    January 11, 2012 - By Nancy McCord

    Organic placement improvement for your website is much more than code optimization. In fact I have seen some sites whose code is not really optimized still place well. But for the typical business website code optimization is a start and just one of the pieces of the puzzle that need…

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    The Google Analytics Whiners Need to Stop Now

    October 26, 2011 - By Nancy McCord

    Even on this past Friday the spillover comments about Google blocking referrer data into Google Analytics for signed in users was ramped up from just being irritating to the full rant level. Here are some of the titles of articles that I have read to give you an idea of…

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