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After spending years frolicking in Google Labs, the real-time suggestion feature dubbed "Google Suggest" will be making a permanent home on the search giant’s homepage by default. This doesn’t come as a surprise, as this sort of search tool is a great benefit to searchers whose memories aren’t the best or can’t think on their [...]

Getting your domain banned and complete website deindexed is by far the worse penalty that a search engine can impose on your website. Such an occurrence instantly drops search traffic to zero, and drags down leads and revenues along with it. A banned website effectively does not exist in the eyes of search engines, [...]

Google ushered in the use of Quality Scores in AdWords three years ago, with the intention of allowing more effective advertisements and higher quality websites to advertise more cheaply. At first, a strong focus was placed on getting better click through rates, as it was (and still is) a key factor in determining one’s Quality [...]

Reputation management is often considered to be a search engine optimization issue rather than a paid search one. Blogs, review sites, forums, and other online outlets mentioned in SEP’s "Management of Your Online Reputation " post all involve web pages that are likely to show up in organic search results.
Nonetheless, this doesn’t mean that [...]

It has been a little over a week since the unveiling of the complete Live Search Webmaster Center, and there seems to be only a little interest (if any) in this latest Microsoft product. Not only is there a lack of interest in general over Webmaster Center, but there’s a lack of acknowledgment over it. [...]