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Google has just announced a really cool way to test and optimize your site, thereby maximizing your profits.  Online marketing is all about testing, testing, testing.  Friends, it just got a whole lot easier.
Google Website Optimizer allows you to create multiple versions of your webpage (maybe one version with a red button and [...]

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There’s a new sheriff in town, well, at least a new Google Sitemap Generator.
The new open-source Google Sitemap Generator finds new and modified URLs based on your webserver’s traffic, its log files, or the files found on the server. By combining these methods, Google Sitemap Generator can be very fast in finding these [...]

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Google has just made it a little easier to submit your sitemap.  You no longer have to specify a sitemap file type.  Google will determine the type of data you’re submitting automatically.
If you have multiple Sitemap files that you wish to submit to Google, you can include up to 1,000 [...]

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This week, there are more Google updates than you can shake a stick at.  I’ll try to sum them all up for you as best I can in a short, informative way.
Google Reader
First up, Google Reader has made a few changes. If you use this as your primary feed provider, [...]

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The economy sucks.  You know it.  I know it.  Google knows it…and YouTube knows it.  Well, it seems that YouTubevertorials weren’t enough the kings of search.  In an effort to turn YouTube into a viable business model, Google has decided to sell top search rankings on YouTube to the highest bidder.
As Erick Shonfeld with TechCrunch [...]

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You officially now have no excuse for not fixing those broken links.  Today, Google has unveiled a new service called Webmaster Tools Crawl error sources.  OK, OK, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it pretty darned useful.
“Crawl error sources displays the source URL containing the broken link to their site — no matter [...]

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