By: Aaron Wall | Source: seobook.com

Blog Indexing Question: My ranking for my core keyword went up, but most of my site was recently put in Google’s Supplemental Index, and I saw my income and traffic drop sharply. I have not built any links recently or made any changes to my site. How can I fix this and get my site top rankings again?

Google has been tightening down on their duplicate content filters. They have also been using PageRank scores to determine weather to index a page, if they should stick it in their supplemental results, and perhaps how strongly they should apply various filters (such as duplicate content filters).

Between slightly lower internal PageRank scores (minor issue) and increasingly aggressive duplicate content filters (major issue) and significant duplication from page to page on your site (major issue) much of your site is in Google’s supplemental index.

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By: Rok Hrastnik | Source: site-reference.com

While RSS end-user adoption has been relatively slow, marketers have jumped at the chance to use this new internet channel increase their online sales.

If you’re new to the world of RSS — RSS is a simple technology that allows you to deliver your online content directly to your subscribers, other websites and the search engines. It helps you improve your content delivery, as well as increase your online traffic and reach, and even conduct business intelligence more easily.

RSS content is delivered through so-called RSS feeds, which are just simple files that carry your online content. Each of these simple files containts multiple "stories" that you may want to deliver to your audiences, called "content items". A content item can be anything … an article, a blog post, a whole newsletter issue, a sales letter and so on.

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By: Doug Caverly | Source: webpronews.com

Vodafone and Google have announced plans “to develop a location-based version of Google Maps for mobile,” which should present users with a range of local search and navigation options. Americans may be out of luck, however – the two companies only mentioned “key European markets” in an official statement.

You can’t really blame them, though. Through Verizon, Vodafone can claim only 23,230 customers in the U.S. (as of December 31). In Europe, it has upwards of 98,000 “patrons.”

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