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An Infographic on the Right Track: Grad School to Google

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Case in point: this interactive graphic from OnlinePhD.org, which steps you through Google’s growth year by year (thanks to Google Tutor for the lead.) But now and then I run across an infographic that is distinctly different, and worth sharing. The drawing is not outstanding, but the interactivity and engagement are.

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Signals of Quality vs. Good SEO

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Last month, I wrote about a discussion on an episode of This Week in Google (TWiG) featuring Google’s Matt Cutts. The following week, TWiG host Leo Laporte cited my article at the start of an expanded discussion of Google’s intent regarding content farms. and have signals of quality.&#.

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Is Advertising in New Media Doomed?

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This was a topic raised in last week’s episode of This Week in Google. As “This Week in Google” host Leo Laporte said, how people think about cookies and privacy really depends on how you frame the discussion. And independent content providers, in turn, will have even less revenue to keep them going.

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Writing for the Web: The Human Algorithm and Zero-Sum SEO

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The moment you achieve that precious optimization, Google changes its algorithm and reverses all your gains. That to me is the takeaway from Guillaume Bouchard’s recent Search Engine Watch article on Google’s Penguin update. In my defense, I argued that SEO is a losing game. I might have added, it’s also frequently a zero-sum game.

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Is Advertising in New Media Doomed?

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This was a topic raised in last week’s episode of This Week in Google. As “This Week in Google” host Leo Laporte said, how people think about cookies and privacy really depends on how you frame the discussion. And independent content providers, in turn, will have even less revenue to keep them going.

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The Key to Understanding New Media Is Attitude, Not Technology

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A couple of years ago, Gina Trapani , the founder of Lifehacker and a cohost of This Week in Google , wrote and self-published the Complete Guide to Google Wave , which she described as “an experiment in iterative publishing.”

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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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Will they sometimes wax too enthusiastic about new tools that turn out to be dead ends, like Jaiku , FriendFeed , or Google Wave ? But they’ll also bring to light valuable new platforms as well, like Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps even Google Plus. The benefits of early adopters don’t end with identification or advocacy.