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In Matt Cutts’s latest video on Google Search Engine Optimization, he warns Google will penalize sites for over-optimization.
The next generation of Google Search will analyse sites that have been heavily optimized. The idea is to level the playing field for all users online.
Listen to Matt and share your opinion with us.
What do you think? Is it a good or bad move by Google?
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If you are doing international business, then you have to make sure your website is visible to everyone — you need to understand the competition. Everyone knows Google is the number one site in the world, but who are the other big players?
Just outside the Top 10, but still in the top 20 are Amazon, LinkedIn, Google India, TaoBao, Yahoo Japan, MSN and eBay
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Source: Alexa March 2012
Google gets personal with new personal search query results to roll out.
As part of its progress into the social media area, Google can now index your personal photos and data as posted and profile you for individual searches.
Personal search allows Google to:
For more information, read the full article on the Yahoo! Finance.
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This time we’ve a blog specially for techies. We have been doing some work on our own website and SEO recently and one of the big items of discussion is the tag rel=canonical in HTML.
It is difficult to understand, but it’s important to know about it. Google checks for this tag in the head section of every page when crawling your site for SEO purposes. We found a great link on Matt Cutts’s website which explains how it works, how Google sees it and he gives some advice on how to use it appropriately.
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Earlier this month, Google officially announced that it was deprecating and phasing out its translate API.
This means that website developers will no longer be able to use the code that makes Google’s translation algorithms that automatically provided translated material for other websites.
The standalone Google Translate site will remain, though; this allows you to enter text or URLs for quick translation.
Google put the decision down to an overuse by Spammers of their system to translate spam and phishing emails which are sent on a regular basis around the world.
Google stated, “The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011. For website translations, we encourage you to use the Google Translate Cloud.
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For all internet marketers and e-commerce teams: a useful new link for you from Google.
Google launched a new help forum dedicated to SMEs who are managing their own AdWords campaigns.
Google has lots of other support forums to discuss how to get the best from your online presence.
We help customers do more international business by providing the language services, support and advice for developing international websites.
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Aujourd’hui, le trafic internet mondial est tellement dense qu’il devient important de faire en sorte que votre site web soit bien protégé.
A-t-il déjà été piraté, ou infecté par un virus ou logiciel malveillant ?
Nous conseillons à tous les développeurs de sites web de vérifier votre site régulièrement. Voici une technique toute simple pour vérifier rapidement la sécurité de votre page sur Google.
Copiez-collez cette ligne dans la barre d’adresse, en remplaçant simplement “votrenomdedomaine” par l’adresse de votre site internet:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=votrenomdedomaine.com (site en anglais)
Même s’il n’est pas complet et qu’il ne peut pas détecter si des faux liens ou du contenu ont été ajoutés à votre site, il peut néanmoins identifier si Google a détecté des logiciels malveillants ou d’autres menaces sur votre site.
L’agence STAR vous aide à localiser votre site web dans plus de mille combinaisons de langues à travers le monde.
Only Google could do it!
A new product launched yesterday for Android devices introduces translation from English to animal languages. You will be able to communicate more effectively with your pets. Now you can really tell your dog that you love them.
Take a look at the video if you don’t believe us.
Visit Google’s Translate for Animals web page for more details.
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With so much international Web traffic nowadays, it is important to ensure your website is secure for malware and attacks. Has it been hacked recently? Does it contain any malware or viruses?
Our web team advises all web developers and site owners to check your sites regularly. There’s a convenient way to check the safety of your site with the Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Report.
Replace your_domain.com in the input field with your site’s URL.
Whilst not completely comprehensive — it will not detect sites that have had spurious links or content added — it may identify if Google has spotted malware or other threats on your site.
We deliver website localization services to customers for over 1,000 language combinations.
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