As children, the playground was a place of fun and adventure where the games played with the other kids on the apparatus tested you physically and mentally.

The playground that is the search engine industry has seen many children come to test there skills against others. How long could they remain competitive against the others? The challenges of the industry tested those with a keen intellect and the physical dominance that an 8th grade child would have over a 3rd grader.

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The site ownership verification in Google Webmaster Tools can be an erksome item for some people. When managing a large number on Google Webmaster Tools accounts it seems that someone, somewhere is always removing the HTML or Meta tag verification information. Whether it is because they do not know what it does or because it gets left out of the next release of the code base. Anyways… Google now offers a history of their checks on the site owner verification.

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Google Webmaster Tools Site Ownership History

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Google Analytics has updated there standard segmentation drop downs. The much more user-friendly versions shows a clear separation of what types of information as well as brief descriptions. This is a big move in making Google Analytics much more friendly to novice users.

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New All  Google Analytics Standard Segmentaion Menu

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Dear Janice Jacobsen

July 21, 2010

Dear Janice Jacobsen,

Thank you for contacting… wait a minute… your email address looks awfully familiar. Where have I seen that before…

I know! It’s the same damn email address that a previous spammer, named Jim Guthrie, used on my blog just 2 months ago. Go ahead everyone, compare the two…

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Poll Confirms Government Oversight of Google is a Bad Idea

July 19, 2010

On Thursday, July 15th the NY Times published a opinion piece about the potential need for a governmental committee to oversee changes to the Google algorithm based on the idea that Google controls too much of the Internet traffic to websites. I posted my own opinion on government oversight of the Google algorithm and the [...]

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Government Oversight of Google Algorithm

July 15, 2010

This morning I came across an article on NYTimes.com about how the European anti-trust investigation currently being carried out against Google is starting to stir up some interest in the US goverment to setup a Google algorithm oversight commission or something of that ilk. Here’s the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15thu3.html. Take a minute to read it. It’s [...]

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SEO Simply Explained

June 30, 2010

So, I find myself in this situation quite often – I am out with my wife (at a wedding, party, etc.), we meet someone new and they ask us what we do for a living. She is an Auditor so no one struggles with what she does for a living but when they get to [...]

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4 Reasons Why a Single Sitemap is a Bad Idea

June 30, 2010

On June 29, 2010 Google announced that you can now submit one sitemap.xml file with many content types. This means that you no longer need separate xml files for video, images, URLs, etc. The overarching idea was to help simplify the sitemap submission process for webmasters so they didn’t have juggle multiple files but Google [...]

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DIY Thesis Theme for WordPress (Review)

June 29, 2010

Honestly, the Thesis Theme for WordPress has been the easiest “theme” thus far that I have used on my blog. I use theme in quotes above because Thesis goes above and beyond any other theme I have seen for WordPress. The functionality that has been built into the back-end to customize not only the look [...]

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5 Reasons You Should Require the Rel Canonical Link Tag on Your Site

June 15, 2010

I have seen first hand the benefits of how well the rel canonical link tag works at cleaning up on-domain and cross-domain issues with the indexation of duplicate content in the search engines. Just see my post about how it helped save one of my clients – Update on Rel Canonical Link Tag Element. The [...]

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