by Charissa Grandin.

When reading Google’s 32 page SEO Starter Guide, one thing is clear: your site visitors are the most important consideration in SEO optimization.

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by Lisa M. Krieger.

A new study confirms it: Google is altering your brain. More precisely, our growing dependence on the Internet has changed how — and what — our brains choose to remember.

When we know where to find information, we’re less likely to remember it — an amnesia dubbed “The Google Effect” by a team led by psychologist Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University.

Goodbye, soul-searching; hello, facts-at-fingertips.

The finding, published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, doesn’t prove that Google, Yahoo or other search engines are making us dumber, as some have asserted. We’re still capable of remembering things that matter — and are not easily found online, Sparrow said.

Rather, it suggests that the human memory is reorganizing where it goes for information, adapting to new computing technologies rather than relying purely on rote memory. We’re outsourcing “search” from our brains to our computers.

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By Ian Paul, PCWorld

Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels, and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.

Google also takes responsibility. Ben Treynor, Google’s VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar, said on Google’s Gmail blog that Google backs up all Gmail to tape. “Since the tapes are offline, they’re protected from such software bugs,” he blogged. “But restoring data from them also takes longer than transferring your requests to another data center, which is why it’s taken us hours to get the e-mail back instead of milliseconds.”

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This article was written for Web Marketing Pros.

“Here are 10 SEO tips that I’ve extracted from an article written by a former Google executive who was responsible for the Google’s Webmaster Central, which provides analytical tools for site owners to understand the behavior of users. It is simpler than you thought. Here is SEO according to Google…”

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This article was written by InfoLink IT.

“Getting listed on Google’s first result page of natural positioning is a must today. Unfortunately, many webmasters still do the wrong things to improve search engine rankings.

It’s not possible to get top 10 rankings on Google by focusing on one single strategy. Getting listed on Google requires you to work on all elements of your website. We have put the top 5 factors that have influence on your website positioning in Google’s search results…”

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This article was written by Jeffery Smith.

“Thanks to this interview, a plethora of looming misconceptions about SEO can be laid to rest or dismissed as conjecture as this is as clear as it is going to get from any official statement from Google regarding the inner workings of their search engine. This is not the interview, you can read that here, but rather our appreciation of the topics discussed.

Getting answers directly from the source was a great relief for many advanced SEO’s, who now have a baseline (for now) to use as a barometer regarding the way Google crawls, indexes and interprets pages, duplicate content and the underlying structure of a website.

By using some of the tips he suggested, it may provide insight to some problem areas which until now, may have been improperly diagnosed. There was so much to dig into for SEO’s as the tidbits pertain to a wide variety of conditions that must be anticipated, revised and optimized in a website in order to reap the rewards of a top ranking SERP (search engine result page) position.”

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This article was written by AkuVn.

Here is a list of 50 SEO tips to improve your website rank with Google.

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This article was written by Travis Campbell.

“Let’s be clear, getting a site indexed is the first step to ranking well in the search engines, and simply means that the search engines (in this case Google) are aware of your site.  The site is in their index (database), which is different than getting your site ranked high on the search results pages for keywords you are targeting (much more complex).  To get indexed, one could certainly submit a URL to Google for consideration, and while that is a good approach, I think I have one that may be faster.”

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This article was written by Rebekah.

“Designing display ads is one of the more difficult undertakings in online advertising.  In this post, I review the free Google AdWords Display Ad Builder

First off, you should watch their demo to see how Google AdWords Display Ad Builder works.  When I first log into Google AdWords, I am presented with  “create a new campaign.”  I enter a name for the campaign and then select where I would like the ad to be seen. What’s interesting here is that I can choose to target businesses if I am creating an ad for a B2B operation.  If so, I can then connect to the Google Local Business Center, if a business owner, or add addresses manually, if not.  If a B2C operation, I  can instead choose to target by demographics, male/female and age range only.”

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This article was written by Kyle Pearce.

“Google wants to make it easy for webmasters that create compelling content to rank well on its search engine. Using these free Google tools you can optimize your website, improve your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts and gain new insights into which keywords people are using to find information on Google.”

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