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Changes to Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

2012-01-26T01:08:00.001-08:00

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Dear Google user, We're getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google. We believe this stuff matters, so please take a few minutes to read our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service at http://www.google.com/policies. These changes will take effect on March 1, 2012.
One policy, one Google experience

Easy to work across Google Our new policy reflects a single product experience that does what you need, when you want it to. Whether reading an email that reminds you to schedule a family get-together or finding a favorite video that you want to share, we want to ensure you can move across Gmail, Calendar, Search, YouTube, or whatever your life calls for with ease.	Tailored for you If you're signed into Google, we can do things like suggest search queries – or tailor your search results – based on the interests you've expressed in Google+, Gmail, and YouTube. We'll better understand which version of Pink or Jaguar you're searching for and get you those results faster.	Easy to share and collaborate When you post or create a document online, you often want others to see and contribute. By remembering the contact information of the people you want to share with, we make it easy for you to share in any Google product or service with minimal clicks and errors.

Protecting your privacy hasn't changed Our goal is to provide you with as much transparency and choice as possible, through products like Google Dashboard and Ads Preferences Manager, alongside other tools. Our privacy principles remain unchanged. And we'll never sell your personal information or share it without your permission (other than rare circumstances like valid legal requests).	Understand how Google uses your data If you want to learn more about your data on Google and across the web, including tips and advice for staying safe online, check out http://www.google.com/goodtoknow	Got questions? We got answers. Visit our FAQ at http://www.google.com/policies/faq to read more about the changes. (We figured our users might have a question or twenty-two.)

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8 SEO Tips and Tricks

2009-05-23T23:29:00.001-07:00

A client recently asked for a quick overview of good SEO practises, so I thought I'd share them with all of you at the same time. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but following these items will definitely make a difference to your site's performance in major search engines. These are roughly in order of priority (the first items being the most important):

Landing Pages: It's impossible to do a good job of optimizing your homepage for every possible term people might use to find your site. Think of it as a town fair full of criers who are all yelling their own messages: the end result is a din of roughly equal volume in which nothing stands out. Plan instead to add a page to your site for each search term, heavily optimized for that term using all the tips below, so that page becomes the top organic search result for the term and therefore the page that visitors land on when coming to your site. It's important to make sure that these pages aren't islands (i.e.: not linked from any of the site's main content), because otherwise web crawlers may not find and index them.
Titles: Some of the most overlooked SEO real estate in the world is staring right at you from the top of this very window. The <title> tag, which sets the text displayed in the title bar of the browser window, is very highly rate by search engines as being indicative of the page's content. The engines differ in how much of the <title> they index, but the general rule of thumb is that the first 60 or so characters are the most important. This dictates that the search term should come before things like a company name, so it would be better to have "8 SEO Tips and Tricks » JayGoldman.com" rather than "JayGoldman.com: 8 SEO Tips and Tricks". Luckily, this also tends to be more useful to users when they view their browser history or bookmarks in a narrow window or menu that cuts off the text, since the name of the page they want is more likely to be visible. I use the WordPress SEO Title Tag Plugin to swap the order around on this blog.
Repetition: The search term should be repeated in an <h1> as close to the top of the <body> as possible. We saw a difference for some of Radiant Core's clients between having text at the top of the HTML and moving it down for presentation using CSS and just putting it at the bottom (e.g.: the list of SEO links at the bottom of the TargetVacations site actually occurs at the top of the HTML and is moved down through a combination of CSS and JavaScript since the page's length is variable). The term should be repeated again in a <p> following that <h1>, ideally surrounded by <strong> tags.
Font Replacement: A necessity if you're particular to a specific font and want to make sure your text is rendered in it. Since HTML doesn't yet support embedding fonts (though it's coming in CSS3 as WebFonts), specifying a font in CSS will only work if the person viewing your site has that font installed on their computer (and could still look strange if they have a different font with the same name). There are two popular routes: image replacement and sIFR for Flash-based replacement. Image replacement is much more limiting in that it requires you to create an image for each piece of text, while sIFR can be really difficult to get working, requires Flash for display, and can really slow down page rendering. I use a mix of the two on the homepage of this blog, rendering the header using image replacement since it never changes and rendering blog titles in sIFR to get Futura without having to manually create images for each post's title.
- Doug Bowman of Stopdesign (and now the Visual Design Lead at Google) has a great overview of using background-image to replace text. My preferred method was originally outlined by Mike Rundle and has gone on to be the favourite used widely by web designers (and is even linked to by Doug): Accessible Image Replacement.
- The concept behind sIFR is really elegant: create a very lightweight Flash movie that has the font embedded and then pull in the text it replaces and render it using that font. The accronym stands for Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, named after Shaun Inman who came up with one of the original CSS-based image replacements. sIFR was originally created by Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben but hasn't been updated by them in a long time. There's a sIFR Lite available from AllCrunchy.com, though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while either.
Domain Names: Most of the things search engines look for center around trying to determine the content of a page based on the text it contains and the meta information that surrounds it. The more difficult it is to fake the meta data, the more stake placed in it. Some of the hardest to fake are the domain name and URL of a page, which makes them two of the more important tweaks you can make. It's harder to optimize the domain name since you only have one for your whole site, but if you sell You Won't Believe it's Not Tuna you should grab a domain like tunareplacement.com rather than chickenofthesea.com. The age of your domain name does factor into the calculation, so it's generally better to renovate a site and keep the old domain than it is to start entirely from scratch. It's also worth noting that some search engines, particularly Google, treat subdomains as different sites, which means things like blog.jaygoldman.com and www.jaygoldman.com don't necessarily share PageRank. Unless there's a stronger-than-SEO reason to go with a subdomain, consider a directory instead (www.jaygoldman.com/blog). You should also consider that www.jaygoldman.com and jaygoldman.com (without the www) aren't necessarily the same, so you should decide early on which you're going to use and be consistent in promoting the site (I use jaygoldman.com). You can configure mod_rewite (see below) to remove the www if you choose to go that route.
URL: The search term should ideally be part of the URL, using -s for spaces (e.g.: www.tunareplacement.com/recipes/tuna-and-marshmellow-salad). This is much, much better than the default URL that your blog sofware or CMS probably produces (www.tunareplacement.com/recipe.aspx?id=23), so you should absolutely switch over if you have that control (WordPress users should take a look in the Permalinks section of the Settings in their WP-Admin). I've always prefered avoiding file extensions in URLs entirely (e.g.: .jsp, .php, .asp(x), etc.) since it exposes part of the site's implementation into the URL and then into people's bookmarks, web crawlers, and the like. You'll break all of those if you later rebuild the site on a different technology, so it's better to abstract to a higher level earlier and just change the rewrite destinations later. Human readable URLs also kick machine generated URLs butt when it comes to things like analytics or emailing links to friends. I much prefer using URL rewriting, which allows the clean and human readable /recipes/tuna-and-marshmellow-salad to get rewritten to /recipe.php?title=tuna-and-marshmellow-salad behind the scenes. If you're running Apache and don't mind some server config, take a look at mod_rewrite, but be warned that it's like black magic, ninjas, and awesomeness mixed together in a very potent but incredibly tricky potion. If you're running IIS, take a look at IASPI ReWrite, IIS Rewrite, or Mod Rewrite for IIS. I've got no experience with any of them so that's about all I can say on that topic.
Sitemaps: Way back in the early days of the web, Site Maps were actually a page on your site that showed people where all the other pages were, usually in some sort of graphical flow chart fashion. Most sites have grown considerably beyond being representable on a map, but they've found a new lease on life thanks to web crawlers. Submitting a Sitemap XML file to the search engines helps them understand how to crawl and index all of the pages, including the frequency that they change. You really don't want to have to do this manually since it has to be updated every time a new page is added, so take a look at automated tools that will do it and submit the update (I use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress for this blog). More info at Sitemaps.org.
Inbound Links: You want to encourage as many inbound links to your site as possible since they are factored into most search engine's ranking algorithms as essentially counting as votes for the autoritativeness of your site. Almost all inbound links are positive, with the exception of ones from things like known link farms, but you really want to focus on getting other sites to link to your landing pages with the right link text. If we're trying to optimize the Recipes page of our Tuna Replacement site for the search term "tuna recipes", it's much more valuable for outside sites to link to that page with <a href="http://www.tunareplacement.com/recipes">tuna recipes</a> as the link than it is for them to link with <a href="http://www.tunareplacement.com/recipes">recipes</a>. If you have the kind of site where people might want to feature your content elsewhere (with, say, a Tuna Recipes Widget of the Day), consider developing an embeddable form that includes links formatted to match your SEO priorities.
Meta Tags: These used to be all the rage in that you could define keywords for search engines to use in their indexing. That's a pretty easy system to game (want to attract attention to your porn site? Try keywords like "free money"), so they're no longer nearly as valuable as they used to be. There's a lot of discussion in the SEO community about how valuable they actually are, but the general conclusion is that you can't go wrong by adding the keyword and description meta fields to your pages, and that they may even be used to display some of the information in search results. I use the Add-Meta-Tags WordPress Plugin to automatically add them to all of the pages and posts on this site.

Following all of those steps should make a considerable difference in the performance of your organic search engine results. I haven't touched on the importance of selecting the right keywords and terms, which is a whole topic in and of itself, but these will make a noticeable difference if you're fairly savvy in that regard.

What's your favourite SEO Tip? Disagree with what I've said here or have one I missed? Add it to the comments!

The WordPress SEO Link Juice Holy Grail

2009-05-23T23:28:00.003-07:00

From time to time I find great tools to help me accomplish my SEO goals not only for my clients sites but mine as well. This new plugin for WordPress is just such a tool.

The WordPress No Followizer plugin from SEO Automatic gives you ultimate link juice sculpting control over any given page or post. It allows you to easily and painlessly add the nofollow tag to any or all of the links.

The No Followizer plugin adds a collapsible box to the top right of the admin area of each post and page, offering you full control over the header, footer, sidebar, content and comment links.

With this new WordPress plugin you can selectively add the nofollow tag to the header, footer, sidebars of any page or post, and can also choose individual links in the body text or even in the comments.

So what are you waiting for?
Take total control of your WordPress Link Juice and increase your search rankings!

WebVisions 50% Discount on SEO Workshops

2009-05-23T23:28:00.001-07:00

I have worked out a deal to the WebVisions conference and 2 workshops for half price. The rub is I could only get 10 seats at this special price.

SEOPDX + WebVisions: Special Offer on Workshops

SEOPDX is offering an incredible deal to its readers for WebVisions, which takes place from May 20-22 at the Oregon Convention Center. Attend the conference and two workshops - "Performance Optimization for Web and Mobile" with Jason Grigsby and "Tips for Using Search Engines to Increase Site Traffic" with Vanessa Fox - for a special SEOPDX price of only $450, a savings of $450 off the regular price. This offer is available to the first 10 people who respond. People who have already registered for workshops are not eligible.

On Top Web Design and Promotion Guide

2009-05-23T23:27:00.001-07:00

When it comes to choosing from the different UK-based companies to manage your marketing campaign or to develop an appealing, functional design for your site, there is no doubt that On Top Web Design and Promotion will be your right selection.

On Top Web Design and Promotion is the most affordable solution for all your Web Design and Promotion needs, also offering SEO services to make your site compatible with all the search engines on the Internet, always hungry for pages to index after crawling.

Our effective and affordable SEO service starts at Â£99, and we make sure to prioritize important pages, or get affordable Web Design at the same low cost with high quality search engine-optimized layout, attractive, professional, and custom made.

At On Top Web Design and Promotion, we also have affordable eCommerce solutions starting at Â£300 for a full eCommerce service, which includes full product systems with basket, multiple payment methods, and user maintenance with a self-admin area.

Furthermore, our Professional Internet Marketing Services (SEM) helps you to get your site ranked in the top ten of Yahoo and Google from Â£150, boosting the natural traffic to your site after being found at the major search engines. However, we recommend you to take our full SEO service prior getting into this option to avoid wasting money and time.

Our business is to make yours succeed, thus, we will make sure the searchability of your site by making it fully compatible in web designs, content enhancement, and marketing strategies to make a true difference in your favor, with the highest standards of quality and developing your keywords optimization.

Have any questions? Call us on our 0800 Number. We also provide 0800 numbers and other professional telephone services. These numbers are only Â£0.03 per minute for incoming calls, and they are totally free for callers.

On Top Web Design and Promotion also offers 0870/0871 numbers free for incoming calls with charge to the caller at the national rate. All of our numbers can be linked to your mobile telephone number or traditional existing number without any setup or any other charges.

For further information on telephone numbers available, please visit our web site. While you are there, do not forget to pay a visit to our staff area and learn a little bit about us, the people on board at On Top Web Design and Promotion.

We care for your assignments as if they were the most precious gem on the planet earth. In fact, your Internet project is one of your most valuable assets that we will take with devoted enthusiasm to make it grow.

Say Goodbye to SplashCast as We Know It

2009-05-23T23:25:00.001-07:00

It's too bad they are throwing in the towel. As for us the early adopters of their services, we can't help but feel abandoned. I signed up for their services shortly after launch and have been touting their easy-to-use video services for websites and blogs ever since.

This morning I received this email from them.

Dear BrianC73,

SplashCast will be discontinuing its free service for publishers effective 12:00 AM June 1, 2009.

We've made this decision given our focus on developing our "Social TV" product and expanding our TV application network.

Three months ago, we asked you (our publishing community), whether you would be willing to pay for the service. The vast majority answered "no." Furthermore, among those willing to pay, the average amount was extremely low. We discussed this in more detail in an earlier blog post.

Additionally, advertising is not a realistic option. We've explored several approaches. While we love your content, advertisers aren't willing to pay a reasonable price to sponsor it [As an aside, this is the issue that YouTube faces on a monumental scale.]

Beyond subscription fees and advertising, we've spent a lot of time thinking about other, more creative, approaches. The unfortunate conclusion is that continuing our free service does not make business sense (we even considered a public broadcasting-like pledge drive).

We've listened. We've thought creatively. We've weighed the alternatives. We've slept on it.

In terms of alternatives, you might check out a service called Embedr. Here is a recent review on the ReadWriteWeb blog. If you know of other services, please let us know.

Thanks for being a part of the SplashCast community. This is a tough (and sad) decision for us. We hope that you can understand that, as a startup, we have to focus.

Sincerely,
The SplashCast Team

No I am not BrianC73. This must be an email sent in bulk by an email client rather than a database service that will actually personalize the email by placing the individual's name in the "Dear" section. (see Constant Contact for a solution.)

SplashCast's "Social TV" product is advertised as Never watch your favorite TV shows alone..
It allows you to "watch your favorite TV shows where you already spend your time online: in Facebook and MySpace."

I have switched to Vimeo for my video hosting services. Vimeo is a high quality host that appears to have longevity. In any case I am hitching my wagon to them and have full intentions of using them for the rest of my digital life.

Late,

SEO Tips Worth the Price of Admission at WebVisions

2009-05-23T23:24:00.001-07:00

Yesterday at WebVisions in Portland, Oregon, I got two tips about Google Local and SEO that were worth the price of admission by themselves.

The tips came from the first two sessions I attended.

    * The Future of Organic Search
      Vanessa Fox
    * Social Media Meets Search: Thinking Inside the OneBox
      Moderator: Ben Lloyd
      Panelists:
      Kent Lewis
      Tom Bennett
      Kent Schnepp

The tip from Vanessa Fox, Nine by Blue was (drum roll please) Google is looking for reviews from your website to be displayed in your Google Local results.

What is the impact of this? Wow you can actually get more press in your local results just by making your reviews easily identifiable on your site.
Think about it!

Kent LewisNow the tip from Kent Lewis, Anvil Media (can I get another drum roll please?) Google uses the phone number as the identifier for the Google Local accounts.

How do you use this to your advantage? If you are in a business that is very phone number dependent chances are one of your strategies should be to purchase the phone numbers of businesses in your field that are no longer in business. If not why aren't you? How many listings can you get in the top 10 Google Local results? How many phone numbers do you have? Isn't it great to be your own competition.

This is just two huge tips I picked up yesterday and I have another day to go. Next week I will post more detailed information on WebVisions and the sessions I attended.

Late,

3 Tips On-Page SEO Strategies

2009-05-23T23:14:00.001-07:00

Link Quality

Links are vital to any Web-page's visibility on the Internet. How Links Flow within a site, and where they come from are important factors to any Search Engine. Search Engines view Links as a vote of confidence for the Web-page. When the Anchor Text of a Link is relevant to the Market Focus of the Web-page being linked to, the Search Engine values this even more. There are numerous factors that can either increase or decrease a Link's value. For example, if a Link is found within the content of a Webpage rather than isolated with few words surrounding it, the Search Engine will consider it to be a "Natural Link" and not a "Paid Link", and therefore associate more value with the Link.

http://anhblog.net/search-engine-optimatization/3-tips-on-page-seo-strategies/

Increase Website Traffic Guaranteed

2009-05-13T23:02:00.000-07:00

Recently, we always received many question about how to increase traffic for website and how to keep your visitor will get back to your website. Success at here is not guaranteed 100 percent of your visitor will bookmark, save or keep your site in memory of them, actually very hard to do this job without any skill you has done before. So, we write this article to help you which way is better to get high traffic monthly and guaranteed it ( 60 - 70% visitor comeback ).

How Google count a Back Link

2009-05-12T02:35:00.001-07:00

How Google count a Back Link and calculate your PR ?

Which type of link Google will count a back link ?

1. Related content
2. Do - follow

Use Article Directories to Promote Your Website

2009-05-10T03:44:00.000-07:00

If you are online and are not already using article directories to promote your website, you are missing out on a free and highly effective marketing option. Article directories are great ways to draw traffic to your site without paying for advertising. However, to get real traffic to your site using an article directory, you must know how to use them correctly.

Use Article Directories to Promote Your Website

71 Good Ways to Build Links

2009-05-05T22:11:00.000-07:00

71 Good Ways to Build Links - Love for Lists

1. Build a “101 list”. These get Dugg all the time, and often become “authority documents”. People can’t resist linking to these (hint, hint).

2. Create 10 easy tips to help you [insert topic here] articles. Again, these are exceptionally easy to link to.

3. Create extensive resource lists for a specific topic .

4. Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category.

5. Create a list of gurus/experts. If you impress the people listed well enough, or find a way to make your project look somewhat official, the gurus may end up linking to your site or saying thanks. (Sometimes flattery is the easiest way to strike up a good relationship with an “authority”.)

Read full article at : 71 Good Ways to Build Links

Top 5 White Hat SEO Techniques

2009-05-05T22:08:00.000-07:00

1. Quality Content

When we first started looking at SEO as a separate entity to website build there was one phrase that we would continually hear, content is King, and its true. There is nothing more valuable you can do to optimize your site for search engines than offer unique well written content. A search engines aim is to serve up what it believes to be the most appropriate website for any given search to the end user.

Read More at : Top 5 White Hat SEO Techniques

How to destroy and anti Conficker Worm

2009-04-18T19:46:00.001-07:00

Do you really feel your computer slow down, cannot visitor some website abour security such as microsoft.com , kaspersky.com … etc .

That’s mean your pc has attacked by Conficker Worm

So, which way you can removed it immeidately and protect it for no go back again.

Just do follow some step bellow. It’s will help you protect your computer before attack by Conficker. No get crash or trouble with it

Ten Ways To Get Web Traffic Fast And Free

2009-04-17T21:41:00.002-07:00

There are several ways to get website traffic fast and free, and I’m going to share ten niche ways with you.

Article Submission

You don’t need to be an award winnng expert on the topic you are writing about - just pick an area that is related to the theme of your website, do a bit of research using a search engine and before you know it you will have more knowledge on that subject than most. Write in a relaxed, straightforward way. And, of course, when you add your details at the end of your article, make certain that you include your web address as well.

How To Achieve Top Google Rankings

2009-04-17T21:41:00.001-07:00

For years, it has been well known that Google’s search algorithm is driven by the number and quality of links pointing to a particular URL. And as a result, it was all the rage for some time to buy links on web pages that had a high Google PageRank (PR).

But in March of 2007, Google’s mouthpiece Matt Cutts declared that Google was going to fight back against Paid Links. Google put a shot across the bow of many online marketers, letting them know that the days of easily buying links from high PageRank pages in order to influence a website’s ranking in Google were over.

The EDGE Of Success eBook Download

2009-04-17T21:38:00.001-07:00

Take Your Business to a Level of Success

Do you ever feel as if you are sitting on the edge of greatness? Do you sense something is holding you back from being the phenomenal business owner you are capable of being?

Youve read all the books about owning and operating a company. You’ve listened to stories about small businesses becoming big businesses. You might know people who are living the life you set out to live yourself, but you just cant quite get there.

Internal Link and Important with your SEO

2009-04-17T21:37:00.001-07:00

Why is Interlinking Posts Powerful?

There are three main reasons why I regularly dedicate time to go back over old posts on my blog and find ways to update those posts with links to other posts on my blog.

1. Usefulness to Readers - my primary motivation for interlinking posts is to provide a better experience for those people who are reading those posts and to make my blog more useful. If a reader comes to my blog and finds a post that not only answers a question that they have but that also provides further reading and suggestions on where they can explore related topics - theyre more likely to go away from my site satisfied. A satisfied reader is what Im aiming for - they are more likely to return (it makes your blog sticky) and tell their network about their experience.

Collection Tips to Earn Links and Tweets to Your Blog Post

2009-04-17T21:34:00.000-07:00

1 - Target Content at Those Who Can Help Spread It

Whether you call them “Sneezers”, “Connectors” or “Linkerati” , there is clearly a subset of individuals on the web who are responsible for helping to push content into the collective consciousness. Making your Mom happy is nice, but it won’t bring the results you desire - if you want links and tweets, you need to go to the source.

The 5 Minute SEO Site Audit Checklist

2009-04-17T21:31:00.000-07:00

From month to month I have the opportunity to present 4 different webinars on different topics related to Internet marketing to brand new online business owners.

The reason I bring this up is because no matter what the topic I am presenting on, I usually get asked the same question by completely different random people. They are all wanting me to “look at their site” and give them a “quick, what do you think?”.

These people are wanting to know if their site is ready to “go live” (although I never really understand why people ask that question) but for these people, and this post - I have come up with what I’d like to call “The 5 Minute SEO Site Audit Checklist”. If you have a brand new site, and haven’t done any kind of SEO before, this will be a great list of reminders that will set you off on the right foot.

Read full Article at : Blogger and Tips for SEO