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Am I Risking a Penalty if I Give this Hot Fudge Away?(December 15, 2008) Dang, it’s after midnight and I’m still at the office again. There’s been 2 cases of Sundaes Best hot fudge sitting on top of my desk that I’m not sure if I should be selfish a... (TheLisa) SMX East Charity Party Raises $13,000+!(October 17, 2008) As a brand new member of both We Build Pages and Internet Marketers of New York, I’m really proud to announce that last week’s Charity Party hosted by WBP raised more than $13,000 to benef... Lisa Barone joins We Build Pages!(October 14, 2008) Lisa Barone has moved to Historic Troy New York and has joined We Build Pagesas our Senior Writer. Stay tuned for a new website and blog on WeBuildPages.com in the near future. View the Press Release ... (QualityGal) The Differences Between Good Writers and Great Writers(October 8, 2008) I have a lot of good writers on my writing team. I won’t accept average writers, and bad writers make me cringe. I do have a few really great writers, and I love them all to death.&#... Charity Party Monday October 6 in NYC(October 1, 2008) If you’re going to SMX NYC, Be sure the attend This Party which donates to the Ronald McDonald House on Monday Night. I’m honored to announce that we’re (We Build Pages) hostin... (NinjaJen) For Google 10th, it’s Tales from Page 10(September 26, 2008) In honor of Google’s 10th Anniversary Celebration and inspired by the "Google is turning 10. See what’s happened in the past 10 years." Prominently displayed under the search box a... Create the Winning Logo and get $200(September 23, 2008) *** This contest is over. The winner was Risa Borsykowsky, a professional web designer from RB3 Web Design and Search Engine Optimization. Thanks Risa! *** I’m seeking a logo for a new website a... Rhea Drysdale Joins We Build Pages – YEA!(September 19, 2008) Rhea Drysdale Joins We Build Pages! I’m excited to announce that Rhea Drysdale has joined We Build Pages. I’m sure Rhea, like Pat, will enjoy all that Upstate New York can offer. I k... Google’s Human Reviewers – Matching User’s Intent.(September 16, 2008) Yesterday QualityGal gave a few thoughts on the recent comments about Michael Gray’s take on Guy Kawasaki accepting a camera for the review…and how they feel Google should treat this (the ... (QualityGal) Graywolf, Guy Kawasaki, and Paid Links Rules that Can’t Be Enforced(September 15, 2008) As I was leaving a comment on Graywolf’s post about Guy Kawasaki and Link Payola, I realized I had more than a few words to say on the matter. Google’s policy on paid links is impossible t... Obtained from source. Getting Information about Search and SEO Directly from the Search Engines
How Classification of Page Elements and Search Results May Influence Alternative Titles and Snippets Displayed in Google(January 26, 2012) Has an improvement in how Google understands the layout of pages, and understands and classifies different elements found on page had an impact on the titles and snippets that we see in search results... Google’s Query Based Analysis and Reranking of Search Results(January 23, 2012) Somewhere in an alternative universe, it’s possible that one of the most feared hitters in baseball might have instead been known as one of its greatest pitchers. Babe Ruth started out as a pitc... Apple’s Siri Patent Application(January 19, 2012) A patent application was published today which describes the kind of intelligent automated assistant that we see in use on Apple’s iPhone 4S, known as Siri. But the patent isn’t necessaril... 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 7 – Sets, Semantic Closeness, Segmentation, and Webtables(January 12, 2012) Yesterday, I wrote about how Google may be looking at the semantics associated with HTML heading elements, and the content that they head, and how the search engine might be looking at such content wi... Heading Elements and the Folly of SEO Expert Ranking Lists(January 12, 2012) How important are heading elements to the rankings of webpages by search engines? I’ve seen arguments by people who write about and study search engines and SEO very closely, which often appear ... 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 6 – Named Entity Detection in Queries(January 8, 2012) In the last installment of this series, we looked at how Google may be using phrase based indexing to use the fact that many phrases often tend to co-occur with other phrases within the content of web... IBM Assigns 217 More Patent Filings to Google including Wireless Phones and Javascript Widgets(January 3, 2012) Looks like Google and IBM are working together again to build up Google’s patent portfolio, from an update at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent assignment database. De... How Google Might Identify Transient Content on Webpages(December 29, 2011) Back in 2007, I wrote about a Yahoo patent describing how Yahoo! might crawl a webpage, and then recrawl the same page around a minute later to see if any of the links on the page had changed. It migh...