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Blekko Nukes 1.1 Million Domains in Its Index
Blekko has been on a crusade to destroy spam. This started at the inception of the company, where the human curation of “slashtags” allowed pre-screened...
Chrome 10 Adds New Security Features
Chrome is on one of the fastest release cycles around (six weeks), so it’s not particularly riveting news that we’ve made it to Chrome the...
Googlers to Webmasters: Remove Your Thin Content
Google’s latest algorithm has come to be known as the “farmer update,” but inside Google it’s known as “Panda.” Unlike many pandas, who are lazy...
Is Your Ad Copy Out of Sync? A Common AdWords Ad Copy Mistake & How to Fix It
At Boost CTR we have a team of expert copywriters optimizing ads for a variety of clients, so we see a lot of ads and...
Get Listed So You Can Get Found
“That seminar was one of the most eye-opening I’ve ever been too. I am so excited about these new tools and how I can apply...
How to Get Banned on Google AdWords
With all that is going on in the SEO world, it is easy to forget that there are things that can illicit action from Google...
The Incredible, Remarkable, and Undeniable Power of Speed for SEO
During meetings with prospective clients, I tend to heavily emphasize the importance of speed to the success of their SEO initiatives. By the way, I’m...
SpyFu Recon: Your Domain Keyword Position Insight “that Sells for You”
SpyFu is announcing their new tool called “SpyFu Recon” that gives some essential organic keyword insight and I have been lucky enough to give it...
Bing Partners with KAYAK Travel Search
Bing has been able to hold its share of the search market while scrambling slowly up the ladder thanks to its “niche targeting.” Rather than...
Bing HTML5 Coming Soon
I remember, years ago, when the concepts of HTML5 and CSS3 were first introduced to me. I was dating a designer back then, and she...
Android Hit Hard by Malware, Google Fights Back
It seems that I’m here reporting about a major problem with Android at least once every few weeks – whether it’s their painful text bug or their microSD security...
Google Expands Profiles, Steps Toward Social
We know, if only because Google representatives have told us, that Google is eager to take part in the world of social networking. While Google...
Android Beats RIM and Apple, Hits 29%
The reality is, there isn’t one set of numbers for who the dominant mobile OS player is. Depending on which region you’re looking at, whether...
Microsoft Tablets Pushed to 2012
Microsoft’s keynote address at this year’s CES got massive amounts of applause as their tablet lineup was introduced. It was fully anticipated that as we entered what analysts dubbed...
Bing Enters the Daily Deal Industry – Technically
All the giants of the web have been eager to get involved with the world of “daily deals.” However, the deal industry has no desire...
Google Maps Adds Twitter & Hotpot Functionality
Here’s what we know about Google Hotpot: It’s a lot more visual and functional than the previous Places setup; it’s getting more promotions than any...
Blekko Releases a Trading Card Promotion
Blekko, once “the little search engine at could,” not the “feisty raccoon of the search engine world,” has had its share of strange promotions in...
Blekko Releases a Slashtag for Its Shameless Self-Promotion
Blekko has been pushing hard with promotions, combining the power of everything from lighting things on fire to creating trading cards, and let’s face it: the heavy...
Google to Save the Innocents Hit by “Farmer Update”
Editor’s note: For the latest information on the Google Panda algorithm, please see: A Complete Guide to the Google Panda Update. Google was under a lot...
Google Hotpot Helps Texas Students “Rate for a Cause”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Google Hotpot is the most heavily promoted Google product since Chrome, and that’s nothing to ignore....
Yelp Is “Unhappy” with Google Hotpot
I’ve written a lot about Google Hotpot in the past, including some information on how the evolution of Places (yes, Hotpot and Places are for...
Yahoo Makes It to Sweet Sixteen
Yahoo is old enough that it can get a job, a driver’s license, and (if it lived in Germany) drink beer. That’s right: Yahoo has...
Google “GAUGE” Invites Users to Analyze Analytics
While Google has released a myriad of tools to help webmasters, one of their best-known and most pragmatic is Google Analytics. Provided as a free...
Bing Participates in the TED Education Think Tank
The technology giants have, almost since the common public starting using technology, been major contributors to creative innovations for education. Looking back we see the...
Bing Adds “Natural Language” Shopping Refinement
Bing is currently struggling up-hill against the (let’s face it) essential monopoly of Google. Microsoft, whose technology titan status gives them both industry access to...
Google Buys German Reverse Engineering Company
Google is a monolithic entity – so big and so powerful that it trumps competitors (except Bing, which is gaining) by its mere presence, with...
Google Adds OCR for 29 More Languages
Google is an incredibly multi-lingual company when it comes right down to it. That’s no negligible factor, either. While Yahoo! U.S. was busy siding with Bing to finally...
Google to Release In-App Payments in May
When Google acquired Jambool in August of 2010, many rumors started flying around. After all, Jambool is and was a social network game payment group that helped “synchronize” payments...
Google AdWords Automated Simplicity
Automated Rules works by following rules you set including what part of your adwords campaign the rule applies to and what is the automatic action...
Web 3.0: The New Language of the Semantic Web
I love venturing into new and unknown places. Travel has always been an extremely important part of my life. The excitement of learning a new...