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Guide to Advanced Google Search - Get What You Need - Part 3 of 3

All Information On a Specific Site
When you want to find all available information on a particular website, you can use one of the following search operators:
cache: technorati.com - displays the latest version of technorati.com in Google’s cache; in other words, it tells you when a particular web page has been last indexed by Google.  (Syntax: [...]

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Guide to Advanced Google Search - Get What You Need - Part 2 of 3

Simple Math
(23+ 54) - 47*5/8 - calculates result of the expression
32% of 76 - calculates  how many is 32 % of 76
3^4 or 3**4 - raise 3 to the power of 4

Unit conversion
old units in new units - this is a template for how to do conversion
500 USD in Pounds - converts 500 [...]

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Guide to Advanced Google Search - Get What You Need - Part 1 of 3

Did you ever experienced unproductive search with Google, spending a lot of time and not finding what you need?
Did you know you could get much more accurate and valuable results from Google than the basic search offers?
You probably did. But I bet many of you didn’t know how.
This article explains you how.
General Advanced Search

This Google [...]

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Google Wave - a new Era in Online Communication

A few days ago Google has announced a launch of new online application Google Wave. Google team is hugely enthusiastic about it and speaks of it as a new word in online communication. This new service  combines every known and hitherto unknown tools - Instant messaging, email, micro-blogging, collectively edited micro social networks and many [...]

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What I would do if I worked for Google?

If I worked for Google, refining their search algorithms to give the Internet users highly relevant content , these are the things that I would do:
Natural occurrence of backlinks
I would thoroughly revisited the link popularity concept by putting much more more emphasis on determining the nature of backlinks (whether they are natural or paid/arranged ones).
Reduce [...]

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PageRank Fraud - watch out!

If you are going to buy an old domain, beware of risk to fall prey to a PageRank fraud. There is a whole industry of domain selling tricksters who sell old domains with fraudulent or hijacked PageRank.
Without going into details of how they do it (not to let bottom-feeders to replicate this), I’ll just summarise [...]

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Canonical URL tag vs. 301 redirect

This is relatively new introduction from the major search engines - Google, Yahoo! and Live/MSN.
The purpose of canonical tag URL is to tell the search engines that the page it’s ascribed to is a copy of another webpage, and that all the search engines metrics should be passed/applied to  the canonical (original) page. Confusing? Ok. [...]

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How to check if your site has been banned by Google?

Technorati Profile
If your site is at least 6 months old, has been constantly receiving a measurable traffic from Google and suddenly stopped receiving it completely, the site may have been banned.
If you site is new (less than 6 month old), has a fair amount (a few 100’s) of quality backlinks and you never received any [...]

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Can Google AdWords Keyword Tool be Trusted to build keywords for an SEO campaing?

Introduction
The right choice of keywords is a crucial element of any SEO campaign if it is to be successful. Here one can use either Free or paid keyword suggestion tools.
When the Free Google AdWords keyword tool first appeared, many SEOs and webmasters decided that the days of Paid tools such as Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery or [...]

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Does Nofollow on External Links Affect Your Ranking?


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