The TMO Blog

Google Webmaster Tools and Backlinks

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Google Webmaster Tools has always been a way to see some backlinks to your pages on a site you control. They've recently made a change to give you a "link download option" where you can download a full list of backlinks to your site and include…
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Facebook Read Receipts: Can See Who’s Watching Your Group Posts

Facebook has now announced a big change to the Facebook Groups component of the site: Read Receipts. This is something that allows anyone to see who exactly has looked at the post/update inside of the group, and works on both standard Facebook…
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Google Analytics Upgrade To The Next Level, Retire Old Version

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Google has finally decided to retire it's old version of Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis tool that gives website owners detailed information on visitors' usage patterns for free. For over a year, Google has given users the option to…
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Drop Overhead Costs For Multinational SEO Work

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This looks at some key points for the management of multinational SEO. 1. Monitor your overhead costs! Use micro reports to keep an eye on costs as they occur. 2. What's driving your traffic? Monitor brand vs. non-brand visits. 3. What phrases…
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Google’s Public Announcement: $80 Billion From 1.8 Million Businesses

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Google released its 2011 economic numbers stating that it had an impact to the tune of 80 billion dollars. This move brought about a few questions regarding why they felt the need to release the numbers, as most know that Google is a successful…
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Some Small Businesses Rejecting SEO

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Search engine optimization, or SEO, seems to be becoming less popular with small businesses. The belief comes from the fact that for all the effort it takes to manage your ranking on a search engine, the results are hard to see; you don't know…
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Google Auto-Complete (Google Instant) Now For Sale

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Google Commerce is creating a program in which you won’t have to type the entire phrase when you’re searching for something. They are partnering with advertising firms as to make searches of their products. This will be revolutionary…
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Marissa Mayer Moves From Google To Yahoo as New CEO

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Marissa Mayer has been hired away from Google to become the new CEO of Yahoo. Now, Ms. Mayer becomes another one of the few female CEOs in the tech industry. Yahoo's previous CEO, Scott Thompson, had resigned amid questions over him misrepresenting…
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Switchboard Tags – the Latest Code Updates For Mobile SEO Use

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Do you know anything about switchboard tags? If you are like most of the population you probably answered no to this question. These tags can be used to redirect and identify sites using Bing and Google but are also implemented when you are…
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