New Year’s Resolution: Eliminate Duplicate Website Content

January 12th, 2010

When it comes to web design and optimizing a site for search engines, content is King. However, search engines count negatively against sites containing considerable amounts of completely matching content or similar content.
Oftentimes, closely-matching content within a site isn’t an attempt to attract search results; rather, duplicate content tends to occur because bulletin boards or blogs [...]

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Warm Wishes for a Successful 2010 from Blue Interactive Agency

January 6th, 2010

 

Happy New Year!
We at Blue Interactive Agency extend our best wishes for a happy 2010 to you and your family.
Reflecting on 2009, we experienced Tweets and Status Updates, the emergence of Bing, and Google’s new blended search results page providing all types of results from news stories to blog postings; images, YouTube videos and even social media [...]

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Yahoo Finally Integrates Local Listings and Maps into Search Results

December 15th, 2009

After years of users having to type city names, zip codes, and far more information than anyone should have to in order to retrieve maps and directions in search results, Yahoo is finally offering a more streamlined service.  The company announced today it has improved its local business search result pages, allowing users to locate [...]

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Social Media and Google Collaborate for Real-Time Search Results

December 9th, 2009

Google has acquired deals with MySpace and Facebook allowing real-time updates posted by publicly-posting users to be part of a real-time index on Google.
Recently Twitter signed a similar deal with the search giant, and the two new partnerships are reported to be going live on Google throughout all English language domains starting this week.
What is a [...]

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ICANN Globalizes the Web by Allowing Custom Internet Domain Extensions

December 3rd, 2009

Although already known as the World Wide Web, Internet has truly gone global now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process.
What does this mean?
You’ll be seeing internet addresses containing non-Latin and non-Western characters (Keep an eye out for Arabic or Chinese characters) in the Internet extension [...]

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