Greg Grothaus of Google explains very well Google’s philosophy of duplicate content. They realize that a lot of duplicate content is not manipulative but simply webmasters trying to take the same content and make is useful in different formats. For example, if you have content on a page about “10 tips on package fragile glass [...]

We at TK (now Gravitate Online) have long mused wither Facebook would ever really try and get into the search business. Imagine, if you will, doing a search on FB for a local plumber and getting web results that integrate with your friends from FB. It could deliver results that had your friends searches and [...]

Google value it's own links for PR? Matt illuminates: http://bit.ly/4NwnX # girls update FB status when in danger: http://bit.ly/lTchR #

Bing continues it’s steady and healthy adoption rate. It has just improved to over 10% by itself. If you include it with Yahoo, it’s recent search partner, it has over 26% of the total market share. Google is still the strong leader with over 64%, but the competition and with Bing bringing on cool new [...]

This post has nothing to do with SEO, SEM or internet development, it’s just about something that’s pretty cool. The University of Washington is developing a contact lens with  an internal LED. Allowing the viewer to have ‘enhanced’ site, not just 20/20 site. More advanced options will include all kinds of great information, like health [...]

Google just announced, in a lengthy 8 page pdf (see below) plans to launch a new micropayment process that will allow content developers to put some of their premium content behind a paywall.  Many believe this has the potential to save newspapers, or at least infuse the cluttered internet with higher quality, “Pay-Per-Veiw” content. I’m [...]

Considering a premium membership for SEOmoz. Feedback? Is it worth it? Let me know what you think….thanks! # FB pay per click is killing it! I'm going to start playing around with other social site ppc models, any suggestions where to start? #

Every SEO sees Wikipedia as the ultimate seo’d site. It show up everywhere and gives so much content to Google, that they are almost impossible to compete against. However, we also know the reputation they have for faulty information (preception is strong, although reality begs to differ, see Wikinomics). Wikipedia is making a concerted effort [...]

Another client with great success usiing facebook ppc…got pretty instant results. #

Getting retweets is a great way to spread content and getting potential natural links. People like your stuff, send it along, people run into it and link to your content. It’s simply helping the natural link building process, and doing it in a legitimate way. This powerpoint presentation quickly walks you through some of the [...]