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Entries from August 2008

Google Is Now Able To Index Flash

August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Historically, search engines have been unable to extract text and links from Flash files.  That is now a thing of the past as Google announced recently that they with the help of Adobe,  have made a deep algorithm change to Googlebot that now enables it to extract text content and links from flash pages.
This new change should […]

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Tags: Search Engine Theory & Strategy

Comparing Keyword Research Tools

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Within the last month, Google announced that AdWords is also releasing quantitative data for in their Keywords Tool.  As of January 2008, Google remains as the dominate search engine taking nearly 70% of the market share, up from just over 60% in 2007.    Intuitively, the Google Keyword Tool should seem to be an excellent source […]

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Tags: PPC knowledge base · Trends & News · Search Engine Theory & Strategy · Marketing Tactics

Search Engine Results Positions are inaccurate…

August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was excited to see that Google had added a complete detailed and down-loadable table of search engine search queries data into the Google Webmaster Tools panel. However, after checking the stats against real-time stats, I discovered discrepancies.
 The latest reports in Google Webmaster Tools indicate “Last updated August 2, 2008.” I  believe the results reflected […]

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