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#1022: How Search Engines Work

Posted: August 18, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 129 views // View Comments

Knowing how search engines work may help you understand how to better approach your SEO campaign.

One of the first steps to understanding Search Engine Optimization is to understand the search engines themselves. If you’re familiar with what you’re up against, then you can have a better understanding of how to be successful.

Think of it in terms of a football, baseball, or any sports teams. If you go into a game without studying your opponent, then you won’t have a gameplan. If you don’t have a gameplan, you probably won’t win. However, if you study your opponent and have a gameplan, you’re far more likely to win.

Now I’m no programmer, so I won’t get…

#815: Dear Bing & Yahoo…You Still Suck!

Posted: August 10, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 289 views // View Comments

Stewie says you suck!

Dear Bing & Yahoo!,

You still suck majorly and I’ll tell you why! I don’t care that you just merged together to fight big-bad Google. You’ll both probably end up just shitting your pants and crying in the corner (like always) while Google kicks your ass anyways!

Now even though I just bashed you pretty hard, I’m not here to tear you down. I’m really here to say WTF! My website has been live since January of this year and Google is the only one pulling me traffic.

Now I know I don’t get tons of traffic, but…

#498: Google Gives New Options for Search

Posted: May 26, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 24 views // View Comments

Check out Google's interesting new filters for search.

About a week ago, my boss and I noticed some new features that are enabled when performing a Google search query. Google is now allowing you to utilize a ‘Show Options’ button that really opens up your search and allows you to see results based on a number of very interesting parameters.

When options are hidden:

Google Gives New Options for Search

Show options:

New Google Search Options

Some of the new filtering parameters that are available when you click ‘options’ are:

Video results
Forum results
Reviews results
Recent results
Results from the last 24 hours
Results from the past week
Results from the past year
Images

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#487: Using Google Calendar to Set Up a Blogging Schedule

Posted: May 22, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 174 views // View Comments

Utilizing Google Calendar can be a great way to keep your blogging schedule organized and running efficiently.

I wanted to post a quick article on setting up a blogging schedule via Google Calendar. If you’re trying to take your blog to the next level and looking for a way to get organized, then setting up a schedule for your blog is the way to go.

I want to give a quick shout out to Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger for sharing this tip, as it will be sure to make mine and a lot of other people’s blogging a lot…

#205: Google’s State of the Index

Posted: February 20, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 52 views // View Comments

Google's state of the index according to Matt Cutts.

Matt Cutts released a State of the Google Index post on his blog a couple days ago based on his talk at the PubCon Event is Las Vegas last week.

I thought it was very valuable, but it’s about 23 minutes long so I’ve decided to spare you the time and summarized it for you. Here is the link the the video on YouTube.

A Look Back at Google in 2008

For Search Engine Marketeers & Users:

Release of Google Chrome
Android: Mobile

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#92: Google Launches Google Latitude

Posted: February 5, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 174 views // View Comments

Hello Google Latitude.

Google just launched a new social tool called Google Latitude, that can be integrated into Google Maps, iGoogle, or into a Google App on your mobile phone! Google Latitude should be an interesting new avenue for social marketeers, who constantly feed information to each other all around the web through other similar avenues like Twitter & Digg.

I’m really waiting to see the way that businessess will try to leverage Google Latitude to promote their biz and employees.