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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Matt Cutts from Google explained that Google had done this “on purpose&#. Definitely a fail.

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How to View Google Offers Near You

Idaconcpts

Last week, Google sort-of confirmed to Mashable about the existence of Google Offers by reporting that: Google is communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a pre-paid offers/vouchers program. Today (01/27/11), Google Offers had a soft launch. Post on Google Buzz.

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Google Targets ‘Scraped’ Content and ‘Content Farms’

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In a move “to encourage a healthy web ecosystem,” Google recently announced a major change to its search algorithm – a move to devalue so-called “content farms” that primarily copy content from other websites, and sites that offer little or no value-added content for users. According to Google, its algorithm tweak “noticeably” impacted 11.8%

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

Idaconcpts

The Google Analytics Traffic Overview is a report that provides an overview of the different kinds of sources that send traffic to your site. Given the rise of social media, a common question by newbies to Google Analytics is how to track their social media referrals. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Technorati.

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Google Removes Date from Google Webmaster Tools Link Data

Bill Hartzer

Google has quietly made a change recently in Google Webmaster Tools. They have removed the date that is reported when they report the links to your website. In Google Webmaster Tools, Google has traditionally allowed website owners to view a list of all of the links to their web sites. Post on Google Buzz.

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Tools for Monitoring Online Conversations: Part 2 of Monitor Your Brand Online

Harp Interactive

Online Reputation Monitoring can be as simple as creating alerts on Google or as comprehensive as subscribing to a syndicated monitoring service like Radian6 that gives you a complete platform to listen, measure and engage with your customers across the entire social web. Google Blog search. Technorati. Technorati.

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Gleanster Market Research Report on Social Media Marketing

Bill Hartzer

The “Gleansight&# benchmark reports include an analysis of all the related technology solution providers. You can actually download the reports for free after you register for the service. Reports are provided in PDF, Adobe Acrobat, format. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Technorati. Well, almost.

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