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arnie Grossblatt

Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers is bad for business - 2 views

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    Google adjusts an algorithm to to combat SEO gaming.  No longer true (at least on Google) that "All publicity is good publicity"
arnie Grossblatt

Media Giants Want to Top Google Results - 0 views

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    Google's results ranking algorithm comes under criticism from major publishers.
Amanda Litvinov

How Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Game Their Traffic Numbers | The Deets - 0 views

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    A fascinating investigation that raises questions about Digg's ranking algorithm; revenue models based on page views; and the ethics of media outlets inflating their page hits using social bookmarking.
arnie Grossblatt

The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media... - 1 views

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    An interesting take on online content, algorithmically aggregated content, and user-generated content.
Helen Nam

The Million Word March | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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    The English language is rapidly approaching a million words. However, experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a "word." The Global Language Monitor uses proprietary software to monitor word use and popularity.
Thelisha Woods

How Does Google News Rank Stories - 0 views

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    For Google News publishers, getting high placement in Google News can be great. Most publishers would love to see prime time placement of their stories on the main Google News home page, but many settle for ranking well in Google......
arnie Grossblatt

Getting Google to notice your ebook - 0 views

  • but Google eBookstore suddenly gives booksellers a reason to at least wade into SEO.
  • But what about new books and ebooks? How does Google determine which new titles, and the more than 15 million books that have been scanned, float to the top of its search results pages: in the web search box and in the ebookstore. The challenge, for Gray and other Google engineers on the Books project, is that the best known component of Google's algorithm for determining the the value of a web resource -- the number of links to it by others -- does not apply to books and ebooks. Although it is possible to link to a selection in certain books on Google Books (here's a hyperlink into the aforementioned Galbraith title) people don't generally create links to the contents of a book or ebook. So linking is not a reliable indicator of quality.
  • One strategy that Google employs is to tap into the book industry's "rich tradition of metadata.
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  • Google also looks at what Gray referred to as "market signals:" how often a book has been reprinted, web searches, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the book, etc.
  • 2. Create quality content outside the book
  • 1. Use descriptive titles and chapter headings
  • 3 best practices for getting Google to notice your book
  • 3. Book covers matter
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    With the opening of the Google Bookstore, it's time for publishers to start thinking about search engine optimization (SEO)
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