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A friend of mine says he never redesigns an old website because he might lose his rankings. And he usually gets good rankings for his websites. Is that a good policy? I think there is something to it, but even if your website has great rankings, it could have lousy sales. And what good is a website ranked at No. 1 that isn't converting?

Google image search made toggling the SafeSearch option a tiny bit easier, by including the settings switch menu right on the results page (instead of linking to the settings page, where one has to toggle a radio button option and hit a save button).* SafeSearch is Google's adult content filter that can be turned off in most countries, though interestingly enough not in (at least) Google China. *I believe this is rather new, but don't know when exactly it was added.

When it comes to building links to a website, webmasters have tried a variety of methods over the years. Some of those have been very powerful and some of them have been banned, or penalized, by the search engines. But one method of link building that has remained as effective, and as acceptable, as it was on the very first day of the Internet is article marketing. But what does article marketing entail? Well, first,

When it comes to building links to a website, webmasters have tried a variety of methods over the years. Some of those have been very powerful and some of them have been banned, or penalized, by the search engines. But one method of link building that has remained as effective, and as acceptable, as it was on the very first day of the Internet is article marketing. But what does article marketing entail? Well, first,

Bing has finally arrived 3-5 years behind Google, who is talking about robots.txt and rel="canonical" attributes these days. Bing is discussing what Google was discussing in 2005 . That doesn't mean it isn't worth talking about. A refresher is always in order. It's just interesting that SEO and site architecture are at the forefront of Bing's new discussion with searchers right after its big splash .

Posted by Sam Niccolls (Note: A tip of the cap goes to Rebecca whose great roundups helped me sift through my feed reader on more than a few Saturday morning. Hopefully my breakdown of the last week in technology and online marketing provides a digestible and similarly entertaining accompaniment to a wonderful 4th of July weekend. ) 1) Billy Mays & Product Demonstrability - Jeff Sexton at FutureNow wrote a very interesting article about Billy Mays.

One of the advantages of working at Google is that you get to see neat products and features before the rest of the world does. But that can also be a disadvantage. Sometimes I'd like to talk about a fun Gmail Lab or a new Calendar feature but I'm honestly not sure whether the outside world can see the new feature. I don't want to leak something that the outside world can't see, so I usually I play it safe and end up not talking about any Gmail Labs, for example.

by Vera H-C Chan The Declaration of Independence has made a comeback. Not that the founding statement of breaking from the Mother Country ever went out of fashion. However, dramatic readings of the 1,337-word document have returned, just like in the late 1700s. The History Channel website gives a detailed overview of how the declaration came to be written, first from Richard Henry Lee 's resolution to cut ties to the British Crown,

There's no rest for the large and in charge. While some of us were whisking off to our Independence Day weekend getaways, Google boosted its blog, book and mobile search offerings to start off July with a bang. First, the new Google Blog Search has gotten a touch of the Twitter treatment with the Hot Queries and Latest Posts features. Google says these tools are intended to let users "better help you discover what people are talking about right now on the Web.