2013
Measure Title Tag Length in Pixels, Not Characters, for Sear
In my latest blog post on the Standing Dog blog I wrote about title tag length. Specifically, I show how it s clear that you need to start measuring your title tag length in pixels, NOT in characters. No longer should you be writing title tags based on 70 characters. Google doesn t measure it that way, so you shouldn t either.
How to Set Up Google Authorship On Your Blog
Google Authorship is becoming more and more important. Properly setup blog posts will show up in Google results with the author’s picture next to the meta description.
2012
How to Diversify the Anchor Text of Links to Your Web Site
Some of the latest Google algorithm changes involves the diversity of anchor text links that point to a web site or one particular web page. If you have too much of one keyword phrase in the anchor text, which tends to be around 60 percent or higher, there will be issues.
How to Track Performance in Google Analytics
PPC managers struggle with the inability to track individual sitelink performance in AdWords. Standing Dog solves the problem with Google Analytics.
2011
How to Create a Google Plus Business Page
As many may already know, Google Plus is now allowing people to create their very own Google Plus business page. Here is how to set up a Google Plus Business page.
Google Places Listings in Search Results
If you search at Google for a keyword phrase that includes a city name, most likely Google will show Google Places listings as part of the Google search results. But optimizing for this has become increasingly difficult, since what Google shows and when they show it is so inconsistent. Here is how Google Places is different than the Google web resu
2010
Google Moving Google Map Image in Search Results
I have noticed a alter in how Google is displaying the search outcomes for certain cityname keyword searches. For those of you who often search for some thing that consists of a location (or a city name) along with a key phrase, you might be interested in how Google is altering the search outcomes. Google has recently moved the Google Map imag
SEO Tip: How to Remove a Page from Google
This search engine optimization tip has to do with removing a page or a specific URL from the Google search engine. Their interface has changed recently, so you may want to read about how to remove a web page from Google using Google Webmaster Tools.
Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card
Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card, an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations.
Forcing Google to Show Real-Time Web for Your Keyword
Here is how to literally force Google to display the real-time web, the Latest results for..., for a certain keyword or keyword phrase.
HOW TO: Force Google to Display Real-Time Web for Any Keyword
Here is how to literally force Google to display the real-time web, the Latest results for..., for a certain keyword or keyword phrase.
2009
Get your Google Adwords Quality Score Before Activating
Here is how Google assigns a Quality Score even before keyword activation.
How to Fetch Your Web Page as Googlebot
Now you can see how your web page appears how Googlebot sees it. Log into Google Webmaster Tools and tell Google which page you wish to view. Google will crawl the web page and show you the results of what they see.
How to Create a Google AdWords PPC Geographic Report
Great tutorial on how to use Microsoft Excel to group the daily data into a report you can really use to help optimize the geographical areas you are targeting.
How to Claim Your Website Google Sidewiki
It is important to know that as a website owner you can claim your Google Sidewiki space: and it will always appear on top of the comments. Here is how to claim your website's Google Sidewiki.
Google PageRank Sculpting and Effects on SEO
Google has been making updates on how they treat Google PageRank Sculpting and how they treat the NoFollow tag. Here is what you really need to know.
How to Remove Google Personalization from Search Results
I am not sure if you have noticed, but Google is serving up personalized search results even if you are not logged into a Google Account. Here is how to remove the personalization from the Google search.
SEO Tip 29: Target your Best Keywords
How to target your best performing keywords using Google Analytics data.
2008
Google phone feels the flu before you do
A maker of over-the-counter cold and flu remedies released a program this week for the T-Mobile G1, also known as the Google Phone that warns the user how many people in an area are sneezing and shaking with winter viruses.
Google Not Able to Monetize YouTube Yet
Google says they are prioritizing revenue generation for YouTube. Google still has not figured out how monetize YouTube, which they bought for $1.65 billion.
Google Sitelinks explained
To some, Google Sitelinks are the ultimate endorsement of a website or ‘blog. While there are many clear advantages, knowing how to gain Sitelinks has always been something of a dark art — more guess work than hard work. But what if I said I knew a way?
How Would You Build Links If Google Did Not Exist?
Loren Baker looks into the practice of successful link building for Google, by pretending that Google and PageRank were never invented, and linking is done to attract interest and traffic.
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