Google Places is a system that allows businesses owners to manage their local online presence in Google. So far, over four million businesses have claimed their Place Page on Google. Having a Place Page allows businesses to enhance their business information to include such features as product offerings, videos, photos, coupons, and hours of operation. [...]

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Any SEO will tell you that the hard part of the job is not just working on your own efforts but also keeping an eye on what your competitors are up to. With that in mind, here is a way you can do routine competitor research for your SEO using only a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet! [...]

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"I forget the guy's name but I know somebody must have said…Sell it and they will come boys, sell it and they will come." Bruce Springsteen So I keep reading lots of news about how important and revolutionary Google TV will be. They'll achieve yet another revenue foothold with consumers and sell a whole bunch [...]

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Inside look at the Google Places Dashboard and Sponsored Tags

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TomTom, Garmin, Magellan move over … Google is about to revolutionize yet another industry. Bill Slawski posted a really interesting blog post (New Reason to Submit Businesses to Google Maps: Google Navigator and Personal Information Management Integration) this week talking about a new patent filed by Google, in which Google Navigator is expected to add [...]

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If you have a website then it is a good idea to keep a track of your search engine positions for key phrases that people search for and that bring you traffic. For any SEO professionals this is especially true. Some people use commercial products for this task, others use online services, but there is [...]

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“Do you remember When we fell in love… We were young and innocent then Do you remember how it all began…” Michael Jackson Recently, Yahoo shut down its publishers network, their contextual advertising alternative to Google AdSense. Reading that news caused me to reminisce about the time when all content wasn’t monetizeable and simple monetization [...]

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Some might question Google's commitment to its oft quoted slogan Do Know Evil.  Nevertheless its commitment to its mission is clear: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built "Google," a play on the word "googol," the mathematical term [...]

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Google announces the ability to target your ads to only those placements that are above the fold on the Content Network.

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Google has now added to the incessant chatter we are all faced with on the Internet.  Although Google has acknowledged that its new Buzz service has some teething problems, it is not really the fault of Google.  There really is an incredible amount of noise on the Internet. Find the Gold Of course you cannot [...]

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