SEO News and SEO Tips from SEO Blog Expert

You may have been working on a website, or reading an article about web development, and heard about the .htaccess file, but wondered what it was, or what, if anything, you can do with it. This tutorial will tell you the basics about .htaccess, and show you a few ways you can use it on [...]

Google has apologized to a Chinese authors’ group over its scanning of books by local writers into an online search system, moving to defuse copyright concerns around the project in China.
The Chinese Writers Association posted a copy of the Google statement on its Web site on Sunday. On the same day Erik Hartmann, an Asia-Pacific [...]

Data portability is an important issue for users and businesses alike. In this age of cloud computing, where so many web users have valuable data hosted by web services, we can sometimes find ourselves vulnerable to the will and occurrences of these services. Let’s say for example, Twitter is one of the key components to [...]

Google has made a change to its content restrictions for Google Checkout. Google Checkout now allows the sale of real estate rentals, timeshares, and day sight-seeing tours.

“Google Checkout sellers of real estate rentals, timeshares, and day sight-seeing tours must have a valid public business URL,” says Sammer Abdul of Google Checkout Operations. “The sellers may, [...]

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How to setup a 301 Permanent Redirect

In our previous post SEO Considerations When Redesigning a Website we touched on how to mitigate the ill effects of changing your website domain or file names by using 301 Permanent Redirects. Here we will give you instruction on how to set up this redirect on both Apache and [...]

Become qualified in Google Analytics.
The Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) is a proof of proficiency in Google Analytics. After passing the Google Analytics IQ test, you’ll be effective at leveraging Google Analytics within your organization and helping others to do the same. An in-depth, step-by-step curriculum is provided free of charge from Google to help [...]

Has your company become an expert at using Google Analytics? If so, you should consider becoming a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant (GAAC), to help your clients get the most out of Google Analytics. As a GAAC you’ll benefit from:

The “Google Analytics Authorized Consultant” logo and designation
Possible client referrals from Google sales teams
Elevated [...]

New Tab Page, Right-to-Left Text Support
Today Google announced a couple new features for the Google Toolbar in Firefox. The first one is the addition of a “new tab page.”
This feature allows you to open different pages when you open a new tab, so you don’t just get the standard blank white page. Now you can [...]

Domain names are becoming “hot” property – as in *theft* for resale. More and more companies are finding they cannot get their trademarked names as a domain name because so few good names are left. But sometimes it’s outright extortion as when a Fortune 500 company name is reserved by someone that has no intention [...]