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Ask the Experts: How can I keep private materials out of Google?

Q: We have some private materials on our site, but we’re not able to use robots.txt or a robots meta tag to disallow the pages from indexing.  As long as we don’t link to the pages, and only send them out as links in emails, will Google have any way of indexing these pages? A: [...]

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Google Semantic Sidebar ["Knowledge Graph"] Spied in Australian Results

We recently noticed that Google Australia is showing much more information-rich search results for certain searches than we’ve ever seen. We’re not seeing this type of result in US searches. Could this be a peek at future, more widespread Google results? Update: 5/16/12 Google has given the sidebar a name – Knowledge Graph — and has [...]

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Ask the Experts: How do Pinterest Price Banners Work?

Q: I have an e-commerce site and my products have recently started getting “Pinned” by people on Pinterest.  Sometimes a price shows up in the corner banner.  Why do these price banners sometimes happen?  Can I control them? A: Price banners in Pinterest can be a nice feature for product pages, but site owners have [...]

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Google’s Magic G-bounce (“Dwell”) Time: 7.5 minutes

Upon bouncing back to Google from a search result, you may see a notice allowing you to block that domain from future Google results.  Or you may see a notice encouraging you to +1 that domain.  It all depends on the amount of time you spent on the page. Google is well aware of what [...]

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11 Places to Submit Your App For a Free Review

When you’re launching a new app, naturally you want everyone in the world to see it!  But many of the app review sites you’ll find in Google are spammy or require a payment for submittal.  Try this list for free app review submittals. Before you submit, do a little prep work.  You’ll need a promo [...]

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Ask the Experts: What SEO To Require From My Developer?

Q: I just hired a developer for my small-budget site development project. Is there a Top 10 list of things I should insist on SEO-wise to be built into the site? A: As we all know by now, SEO consists of several different endeavors: Technical SEO: ensuring a search-friendly and social-friendly site from a structural/technical [...]

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Ask the Experts: Recovering from Google’s Panda Update

Q: I have an ecommerce site containing a useful library of product information that the manufacturer allows me to use on my site.  My site was hammered in Google’s Panda update, and I think it was because of this “duplicate” content.  What should I do now?  I don’t want to remove this library because it [...]

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Canonicalization for Pagination – Roundup of SEO Wisdom [UPDATED]

Tongue twister, anyone?  Pagination canonicalization is one of the trickier challenges for the technical SEO set today.  We’ve been closely monitoring the hints and tips that occasionally drop from our favorite Googlers’ lips (sure, we all adore Matt Cutts, but let’s save a little love for JohnMu and Maile Ohye, shall we?).  Here’s a roundup [...]

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Ask the Experts: Semantic Tags for Rich Snippets

Q: I’m confused. What are Schema.org tags and are these the same as semantic tags for rich snippets? Which ones should I use? A:  Have you ever wondered how some websites’ listings in Google and Bing get those great-looking review stars, price ranges, and other enhancements, like the ones shown here? This is all achieved [...]

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Ask the Experts: How Can I Improve Image Ranks?

Q: I am a Hollywood agent and we are not happy with some of the images that Google shows when you search for names of some of our clients.  Where does Google get these images and how can I request that they remove them? A: We’ll use the search results for the actor Paul Rudd [...]

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