Always be sure your content is fresh, rich in keywords and does not exactly duplicate another website. There are many web tools and analytic software programs that can assist you in making sure this doesn’t happen. If you must syndicate website content, always be sure to provide a link back to .... More »
Google's latest video answers the question on how to handle image names. Should you name each image with a proper name, or just leave them with whatever name they already have.
So now we know if we optimize images on our site we can expect a traffic increase. People are searchin.... More »
Knowing how hard it can be for a user to navigate through 35 hours of video uploaded each minute, the YouTube people recently launched YouTube Trends.
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It's been rumored that Google is negotiating with several Hollywood movie studios to launch a pay-per-view streaming move site, which may be available before the end of 2010.
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Google's latest Webmaster Central Video answers the question of what to do if your site was penalized and you can't figure out why.
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It has been the thought for awhile now that Google penalizes a site for having duplicate content. Webmasters have debated time and time again whether their ranking in Google was hurt because of the duplicate content. There was no concise answer, until now. Google has released a new video on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel debunking the myth of penalizing for duplicate content.
We learned from the video while Google is not penalizing your site for duplicate content, it can still hurt your ranking in the search listings. If you thought your site was being penalized maybe you need to go over some of the points they gave in the video about link popularity dilution, user unfriendly urls in search results, and inefficient crawling.
What are your thoughts on this latest video from Google? Were you one that believed in the duplicate content penalty? Are you going to make changes to your site based on what you learned from the video?
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