The Google Local Business Center is undergoing a redesign from within, as Mike Blumenthal reports. The main differences that I see are on the add and edit listing screens. The add listing screen seems to have consolidated much of the information retrieval process onto less screens. You can see a past write [...]

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Posted by randfish
Google’s been pretty clear - buy or sell links, particularly those that come from broker-type services, and we’ll take steps to penalize your site. At one time, this meant simply de-valuing the links that come from paid sources, essentially erasing them from the link graph so as to "take the money out of the [...]

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I was off most of Friday when theGoogle-Yahoo deal was announced — and then details of Microsoft’s last proposal to Yahoo also came out. Today was catch-up, and I wanted to put the deals next to each other in chart form. Google-Yahoo doesn’t [...]

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I created a new training module talking about how language in new industries changes over time, how you can track change, and how you can take advantage of structural changes. I made the first 1/3 of it freely available, but the action items are for subscribers only.
I am still trying to figure out how [...]

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