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Jun 03

Google Crawling HTML Forms IS Harmful to Your Rankings

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A couple of months ago Google officially announced it would be "exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages". I imagine more than a few SEO's were baffled by this decision as was I but were probably not too concerned about the decision as Google promised ...

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Feb 04

Duplicate Content Can Penalize

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For some time now I've been telling clients and friends that publishing duplicate content will not cause you to receive a penalty but that Google will only choose one version of a unique piece of content that it believes to be the authority and ...

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Dec 12

Google Adwords Testing Icons Next to Ads?

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Weirdness. I've never seen clipart next to Adwords in the SERPs but look at these funky Christmas tree icons next to the ads when searching for NC LLC Department:

Aug 19

Google Street View is Coming to Raleigh

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On my way home Friday I found myself behind one of the Immersive Media cars that I assume was scanning streets in Raleigh for Google Street View. These are crap photos but my camera on my phone is crap. The Beetle had www.immersivemedia.com across the back window and Oregon plates. Horrible screen capture from video google streetview car

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Mar 23

Now Google’s Breaking 301’s!

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Aaron just IM'd me about some weirdness he was seeing in the SERP's. He had a site that was 301ing the domain.com to www.domain.com. The problem was that Google was indexing the 301 page! I had never seen this before but a quick query found many ...

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