See on Scoop.it – Agile Media The heightened competition for keywords has driven up prices and made them harder for small companies to afford. See on www.nytimes.com
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Google Acquires Photoshop Competitor Snapseed
Shared LinksSee on Scoop.it – Agile Media Google has acquired the makers of iOS photo-editing app Snapseed, Nik Software, for an undisclosed sum. See on mashable.com
Google indexing: the 8 minute tutorial
Shared LinksTake a few minutes for a quick primer on how Google crawls, indexes, and ranks your website. The always-informative Matt Cutts runs through the basics, including the changes in frequency and method that Google has made over the last decade or so.
More improvements coming for Google search
Shared LinksIn a move sure to rile up the SEO shark industry, Google appears to be making changes that may penalize websites that emphasize optimization schemes over actual quality content. As someone who has often thought of many pure SEO players as parasites, I’d call this a welcome change. After all, the site that does best [...]
“That’s not a social network, that’s a social layer.”
Shared LinksA post at The Next Web: For the last time, let’s all say it together: “Google+ is NOT a Social Network”. Yes, an awful lot of snarkiness in recent months, on Facebook, Twitter, blog posts, even Pinterest fer chrissakes, about how Google is supposedly failing with their social network. Except it’s not a social network. [...]
Google font examples
Shared LinksWeb typography has seen its greatest emergence just in the last couple years, and freely available Google fonts are a big part of that. For a quick look, see Beautiful Web Type: A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.