Posts Tagged ‘Add new tag’

How to Block Sitelinks in Google Search Results

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

How Is Your Web Site Represented in Search Engine Results Pages?

When searching for your Web site, you want to see your Web site listing in the SERPs (search engine results pages) to be the representation of your company/site. For instance, you want the title and the snippet to include the information about your site/page and a marketing statement that will generate clicks. This can be done by optimizing your title tag and meta description tag. But what about sitelinks? Are these links showing up in the SERPs satisfactory?

Twitter URL Expansion Arrives at Last

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

For a long time there been a major security flaw with following links from Twitter. When a link is shortened via a service like cli.gs, bit.ly or tinyurl the user has no idea of where they will be directed upon clicking. The best way to manage this so far has basically been to click on shortened links only from users that you know or trust. That’s the danger of clicking on a shortened URL from Twitter Search or trending topics - you may end up clicking on a link to a site with malware or other issues that you would rather not encounter.

Google AdWords Trademark History

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

In June ‘09 there will be changes to the Google AdWords Trademark policy. To help understand the importance of this change, it’s useful to take a look at the history of how Google treated the trademarked term within AdWords.