The TMO Blog

Google Acquires Travel Guide Company Frommer’s

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Google has bought another company and may be moving forward to make some more changes for user interaction with the search engine. Zagat was bought to allow reviews to be made in a different way. Why Frommer's was bought is still a bit of a…
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Translation From Images On Your Phone by Google

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Google has introduced a new service that ties Google Translate to Google Goggles. It means there's a new OCR tool useable on your phone that can detect language from images and translate them. An example of a good way to use this is of a restaurant…
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If Guest Posting, Low PR Blogs Are Okay For Quality Sites

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When using guest posting to increase Web traffic to one's own site, it is common to skip sites with relatively low PageRank (the score given to a site by Google's patented search algorithm). However, the wisdom of this convention is questioned…
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Olympics Breaking Records For Mobile Search Volume

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Olympics are the first truly multi platform global sporting event. Tablet and smart phone searches approached 50% of overall search query volume for the first two days of the Olympics, and Japan even exceeded that to 55%. At some times during…
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Craigslist Blocking Googlebot and Other Search Engine Bots

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Craigslist's daring decision to go thermonuclear on re-listers can only be viewed as a risky option. After all, you need a lot of guts to tell a top-ranking search engine such as Google to stop indexing its content. This means the site cannot…
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SEO Changes; 10 Expired SEO Methods To Avoid

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As Google changes their algorithm, often anyone doing SEO has to change their approach to manage SERP climbing, as well. Here is a quick list of 10 old SEO techniques that don't have the same ability they used to: Article Submissions Press…
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Is Cloud Computing a Disaster Waiting To Happen?

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Steve Wozniak from Apple recently talked to an audience and shared his concern with cloud computing. He refers to the lack of ownership of content and the relevant lack of control. If he's right, then when we trust all of our content (personal…
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Top Sites Needn’t Worry About SEO So Much

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If your website is one of the top 1% of the total 141 million active webpages, the standard SEO guidelines apparently do not apply to you. While the top web sites can ignore the fundamental optimization rules, it is important for the remaining…
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Building Backlinks Can Be Easy When Done Right

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Building links is a task that can be made easier with a few tips. Adding social sharing tools to blog articles is a start. Having readers share these articles helps to spread the word. Creating a regular electronic newsletter will also increase…
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