Google custom alerts: identifying the known unknowns

November 5, 2009
By Jeff Selig

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How Search Engines Handle Duplicate Content

November 5, 2009
By Jeff Selig

Duplicate Content and Multiple Site IssuesGreg says, “One of the interesting issues in this problem is that Google doesn’t know the first time the content appears. At best, we only know the first page we crawled the content on. It is entirely plausible that we crawl the original content after the copycat.”Joachim Kupke, Sr....
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How to Register Your Domain Name

November 4, 2009
By Jeff Selig
How to Register Your Domain Name

Photo by ro_buk Registering domain names is not as complicated as you might think. The best thing to do is to find a registrar that is an official Internet registering service and use this to register the domain name. Often web hosting sites will offer registration of your domain name. However, there...
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How I predicted the Google Algo Update

November 3, 2009
By Jeff Selig
How I predicted the Google Algo Update

Photo by Storm CryptI have hundred of websites and domain names in just about every vertical you could imagine, literally. The websites function as a test bed for my SEO and PPC experiments, a source of income in most instances and best of all, insight to many of the sensors search engines use as...
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ICANN haz untypable URLs?

November 3, 2009
By Jeff Selig
ICANN haz untypable URLs?

Forget the complications of extending out the latin 26 character set used for domains currently to include foreign characters, kanji and the like. How will this effect the browsers when you go from English, read left to right as in the URL example hereto something like Hebrew which is read right to left?This change...
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Internationalized Domain Names and ICANN

October 31, 2009
By Jeff Selig

The Internet’s governing body has approved a new domain name process that will allow for non-Latin characters. The Fast Track Process will launch on November 16, and will allow countries and territories to apply for domain names in their native language with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). If ICANN approves the...
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Analytics And Measurement twitter people to follow

October 30, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Analytics And Measurement twitter people to follow

Analytics And Measurement//Dave McClure Geeks. Entrepreneurs. Startups. The Internet Revolution, Act II. 22,795 followersBenoit Duverneuil Web Entrepreneur, Web Metrics Analyst, Serial Blogger… 21,179 followersAvinash Kaushik Author – Web Analytics 2.0 & Web Analytics: An Hour A Day | Analytics Evangelist – Google | Co-Founder – Market Motive Inc 14,164 followersKeep It Simple We are building a metrics solution designed...
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Domain Names – What’s the right price?

October 29, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Domain Names – What’s the right price?

Photo by catatronicI have been working with a company on their website redesign and mentioned that as long as they were going for a complete overhaul of the site would they consider a new domain name. The old name was truly terrible on so many levels. The domain they had been using for over 6...
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How Google Social Search Works

October 28, 2009
By Jeff Selig

Google Social Search is an experimental feature that helps you find relevant public web content from people in your social circle, when you’re signed in to your Google Account. For example, search for , and restaurant reviews by your friends and other contacts may appear more prominently in your results. Join the...
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Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in Five Years

October 27, 2009
By Jeff Selig

Highlighted comments include:Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly. Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far...
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Is Meta Data Dead?

October 22, 2009
By Jeff Selig

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Children, work, ethics

October 18, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Children, work, ethics

Photo by SlipStreamJCI waas helping my daughter make some paper chains when one I made came unglued. I am so proud of what was said next, by this insightful 6 year old. “Abba (father in Hebrew), first I’m going to give you a warning about making good chains. If that doesn’t work, then second...
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Future cartoon development, Jedi style Girls and Action Figures

October 18, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Future cartoon development, Jedi style Girls and Action Figures

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Domain Name Valuation and Appraisal Formulas

October 17, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Domain Name Valuation and Appraisal Formulas

Photo by vaXzineHaving A Domain Business Plan & Formula Makes all the Difference Having a domain business plan or formula for what you buy (and why you buy it) can really make the process of domaining a lot easier and more profitable, it also reduces the financial risk. When I started adding the “domaining or domainer”...
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Do You Make These SEO Mistakes?

October 16, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Do You Make These SEO Mistakes?

Photo by creatorsdreamAre you not actively doing these SEO Tasks? The majority of the SEO tasks help you increase the number of inbound links to your site, building reptuation and helping the engines find you better.  Since linkbuilding is the fastest and most reliable way to improve your website rankings, here are some of the...
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