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Google Announces Places Changes

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Google announced Thursday that Google Places pages have undergone a few very important changes. You’ll notice that third party reviews are now gone from Places pages. These changes come as a result of other consumer ratings websites like Yelp, Citysearch, and TripAdvisor claiming that Google was using their content without permission.

Places pages will still link to these third party sites for a more well rounded search experience but only after showing Google user reviews. Google will no longer integrate the actual reviews from any other consumer rating websites into the page or the Place rating system.

HOWTO: Optimize Your Drupal Website for Search Engines (Video)

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The good folks at Lullabot have provided a great set of videos that explain how to configure your Drupal website for maxium Search Engine Optimization (SEO). If you are new to SEO, these videos are a great introduction to the essential Drupal modules that will enhance your Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campaign. You will learn […]

The Posts feature in Google Places for Local Promotion

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In the new era of micro messaging, Google has added Posts to the Google Places listing tools. Think of this as a small welcome or featured message to your clients and to promote your business. If you haven’t see this yet, Google Places is the newest version of Local or Google Map type listings. Once […]

Holiday Planning for SEO and Marketing – IS Conference

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We had the opportunity to speak at the Houston IMA annnual Interactive Strategies Conference in this week. The toughest part of the conference was not being able to see all the good quality presentations since there were multiple session tracks for the day. We happen to think Holiday and Seasonal trends are pretty insightful and […]

Google Instant Search – Impressions and Search Training

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Google Instant has been announced today. The new feature for signed in users of Google Search will anticipate search query and display search results on the query page based on initial characters. One of the most talked about changes in the several Google Blogs indicates  it may have a strong relationship to impressions vs. click […]

SEO Videos from an Online Rockstar, Twitter Archives, Promotions

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In most industries, there will be a few have led from the beginning or quickly make their name recognizable when the enter the scene. Search Engine Marketing  is no exception and one of the SEO industry rockstars is Jill Whalen of High Rankings Online. If you interested in SEO, poke around her site, follow her […]

SEO Modules for your Drupal site

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Drupal (for those that don’t know) is a very popular open-source content management system (CMS). It is built to be very lightweight at the core level. Features are added in by using modules that are submitted by the Drupal development community. They can help to create new content, work with users, add media, and of […]

SEO Status Report Metrics – SMX West 2009

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SMX West 2009 – What are the SEO efforts from a technical standpoint? This session looks at "status report" metrics you can tap into such as link counts, page counts and more to measure value, set benchmarks and determine successes. Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land The first presentation of the session is from […]