Dave Bascom
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Google’s Matt Cutts Announces Friend Connect API
In Matt Cutts’ keynote at PubCon in Austin, he announced the Friend Connect API. This means is that we will now able to integrate Friend Connect within blogs, forums, content management systems, essentially any site. This change will allow you to add a plugin to WordPress or whatever platform you are using and visitors can [...]
New Canonical Link Tag Will Help with Duplicate Content
Just like the lamb lying down with lion, but the big three search engines came together for a rare joint effort to announce the launch of a new feature that will help ease the world’s duplicate content problems. The new feature, called the <link> tag tells the search engines what version of the URL is [...]
SEO.com Featured on KSL Radio’s “Speaking on Business”
From Speaking on Business
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Transcript:
February 2, 2009
This is Fred Ball for Zions Bank, speaking on business.
The Internet has become the marketplace of choice for many business owners. According to statistics from eMarketer.com, a company that provides research and analysis on digital marketing and media, in 2008, $10.7 billion was [...]
Utah SEO Geek
Yes, I live in Utah. Yes, I love SEO, and yes, I’m a geek. All three things are evident if you see my new custom Utah license plate featuring my favorite three-letter acronym: SEO.
So what kind of car would you expect to be sporting these sweet tags? A Hummer? A BMW? How ’bout an Audi [...]
New Sitemap Generator Tool from Google
Google announced the release of their own open source XML sitemap generator tool. There are several third-party sitemap tools around that do a great job, but Google decided that they could add some value with their own tool.
As they describe it:
Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap Generator takes a different [...]
TMobile G1 Google Android Phone Review
It’s been a little over a month since I got my G1 phone from T-Mobile. So far, I’m really enjoying it. My old phone was a Blackberry Pearl, which was a great phone, but this G1 lets me do so much more. Even though T-Mobile doesn’t have the 3G network here in Utah yet, most [...]
Stop Worrying About Rankings
Do you search Google for your trophy keyword every morning to see if you’re still on the first page? Do you check more than once a day? If so, you are a rankings junkie and it’s time to shake the habit. Things have changed with the search engines to the point where rankings are no [...]
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