Google 'was 3 hours to monopoly'

5 December 2008, 2:09 pm (0 comments)comments

Google was three hours away from being called a monopoly by the US department of justice during its investigation of the firm's deal with Yahoo, it has emerged.

According to Sanford Litvack, the lawyer who would have led the government counsel, the department told the search companies that...
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Separate contact plans needed to improve search engine rankings

5 December 2008, 2:08 pm (0 comments)comments

Businesses looking to improve their search engine rankings should forget about mass mailing for getting links and focus on separate contact plans for different sites.

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Changing crawl rate 'does not increase website traffic'

5 December 2008, 2:06 pm (0 comments)comments

If you thought that fiddling about with the crawl rate in Google's webmaster tools would help increase traffic to your website you'd be wrong.

That's according to an experiment by Casey Henry who Read more …

Traffic 'more important than higher search engine rankings'

4 December 2008, 2:04 pm (0 comments)comments

Getting more traffic is more important than higher search engine rankings in the search engine optimisation (SEO)...
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Google reigns in spending

4 December 2008, 2:03 pm (0 comments)comments

Google has long been famous for giving its staff a huge number of perks, from free meals to free time spent on their own projects, but times are changing.

Many companies have had to reduce their non-crucial spending in the downturn and it appears Google is now following suit.

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