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Ask the Experts: How Can I Get Video Thumbnails in Google? [updated]

More and more sites are featuring video. Here’s how to increase your chances of getting video thumbnails within your site’s Google search listings…

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Google Images and the Osama Bin Laden News

When big news breaks, people flock to the search engines, and the search engines work hard to deliver timely search results and useful updates. Forward-thinking SEOs tend to take advantage of these really big news events by monitoring the search results closely, with the goal of getting a glimpse into the search algorithms. We don’t [...]

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Google Ranks: Does Freshness Matter?

SEO experts weigh in on the questions: Does Google care if I update my site frequently? Will doing so improve my ranks?

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Ask the Experts: Will my iWeb Site have Search Engine Ranking Problems?

iWeb has some flaws when it comes to SEO. Here, we suggest workarounds.

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Ask the Experts: Will an International Server Location affect My Google Ranks?

Google does its best to match the website location with its intended audience. Find out what factors into the decision…

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Ask the Experts: Is Etsy Lowering my Google Ranks?

SEO Experts weigh in on the controversy over Etsy adding text at the front of the crafter’s HTML Title…

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Ask the Experts: How Do I Optimize for the Long Tail of Search?

Rather than selecting a short list of 10 or so keywords, some sites work better with a large number of target keywords…

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Ask the Experts: Why is Google Giving My Privacy Page Good Ranks?

This is a common problem, because so many websites point links from their footer or global navigation to their privacy & legal pages…

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Ask the Experts: How Can I Improve my Google Listing Title & Description?

Two possible explanations for bad-looking Google listings, and our advice for solving the problem…

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Ask the Experts: How Can I Count the Number of Pages On My Site?

Looking for a tool to tell you the total number of pages on your site? So are we! Here’s our advice…

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The Right Brain

After starting out in industrial and corporate video production, Jennifer Grappone became a web project manager before working exclusively in SEO starting in 2000. Jennifer advocates a holistic approach to SEO, one that combines elements of good writing, usability, search-friendly site design, and link building.

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The Left Brain

Gradiva Couzin has been working in SEO since its early days in 1998. With a history as a civil engineer and experience in website and database development, Gradiva excels at the technical side of SEO, and enjoys facilitating communications between techie- and non-techie folks.

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