Local search walks away with two categories this week with continued praise for David Mihm’s “Local Search Ranking Factors” article, and Local.com increases communication on its site by adding user reviews and ratings. USA Today featured Google’s Matt Cutts as he shares five tips on how to help your website succeed in the search engines. And, the SEMPO survey says. . . the SEM industry exceeded its projected $11.5 billion spending with and actual spending of $12.2 billion in 2007!

Mihm, Matt, Money and Reviews is a post from: Rankings.me

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Planning on doing an update on your site and it will be unavailable? Google recommends that you put out a 503 error code with a “Retry After” header that states when you will be back up. 503 stands for “Service Unavailable” as a response.

Matt Cutts, an engineer at Google, was interviewed and said if you are buying or selling links, you are probably going to get dinged by Google. Ding! Ding! Ding!

Google stock exceeds $700! They are innovating and always pumping out new technology so it’s no wonder they stock is soaring.

Search Engine Guide – Thursday, November 8 is a post from: Rankings.me

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AskEraser
A handy privacy tool that deletes your search activity from Ask.com servers. Ask takes the lead over the other major search engines in this area.

Matt Cutts on Sub-Directories and Sub-Domains
Matt Cutts, Google engineer, was asked if he preferred sub-domains or sub-directories. Matt suggested only using sub-domains for major divisions of content.

Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday follows Black Friday which falls after thanksgiving and set a record this year with $733 million in online sales. The record that was then broken on December 6th with over $800 million in online sales for the day.

Search Engine Guide – Thursday, December 13 is a post from: Rankings.me

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Sage packs this video full of everything from a new gadget on Google’s Webmaster Tools to a free website service provided by Google Sites, which was formerly the Jot Spot. Matt Cutts also gets air time this week for his article on subscribed links and how to use them, and the Harvard Business Review notices how the internet-originated peer to peer (or P2P) business approach is influencing other societal structures, like banking.

Google’s Subscribed Link Feature and Webmaster Tools Gadget is a post from: Rankings.me

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Google engineer, Matt Cutts, steals the show with his Web 2.0 expo video “What Google Knows About Spam.” Sage extols the virtues of watching the video if you’re looking to avoid spam in your own site and also if you want to make sure you aren’t accidentally becoming the spammer yourself! Cutts provides tips on how to prevent spam and encourages site owners to register their sites in Google’s Webmaster Central area, which allows Google to notify you if something is wrong.

Matt Cutts’ Video Is Cream of the Anti-Spam Crop is a post from: Rankings.me

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