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10 Things To Consider When Searching For A Professional SEO Company

Professional SEO Company 10 Things To Consider When Searching For A Professional SEO CompanyNowadays, it seems that everyone does search engine optimization, or at least make the claim. But it’s more than just developing good content and slapping on a few meta tags. True SEO takes a lot of research, implementation, monitoring, and time. It truly is its own service. I suggest seeking out a company that specializes in SEO for the best results possible.

When it comes to shopping around for a quality SEO company, many are not sure where to begin. There are multitudes of SEO companies out there offering different services at different rates. That being said, I have put together a list of what I believe to be the “top 10 things to consider” when looking for the right Search Marketing agency – A guide to finding your diamond in the rough.

1. GUARANTEES SPECIFIC RANKINGS

URL Shorteners and SEO – Will Google considers shortened URLs while giving PR and Banklink benefits?

As now a days everybody in the online marketing industry are well aware about many URL shorteners like http://bit.ly/, http://goo.gl/, http://tinyurl.com/ etc…

But one question comes in their mind every time they use such tool or website to shorten their long URLs is that “Will Google considers such shortened URLs while giving PR and Banklink benefits?” The answer of that question is well explained by Google’s Matt Cutts in a very good article by Chris Crum at WebProNews.com as below:

With Google looking more at social media these days, in terms of ranking signals, a lot of webmasters continue to wonder how Google treats URL-shorteners in terms of SEO.

This isn’t completely new information, but it still seems to be a topic that continues to come up fairly regularly. Google’s Matt Cutts addressed the issue in a video posted to Google’s Webmaster Help YouTube channel.

“Custom URL shorteners are essentially just like any other redirects,” he explains. “If we try to crawl a page, and we see a 301 or permanent redirect, which pretty much all well-behaved URL shorteners (like bit.ly or goo.gl) will do, if we see that 301 then that will pass PageRank to the final destination.”

Gmail Motion – Hilarious April Fools Prank From Google

Gmail Motion, one of Google’s numerous April Fools gags, has captured the imagination of the web. Google says Gmail Motion uses your computer’s webcam and the company’s “patented spatial tracking technology” to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful characters and commands.

They also had this expert interview: “We’ve been testing Gmail Motion with Googlers over the last few months and have been really excited about the feedback we’ve been hearing,” says McDonald. “We’ve also done some internal tests to measure productivity improvements and found an average 14% increase in email composition speed and 12% reduction in average time in inbox. With Gmail Motion, Googlers were able to get more done and get in and out of their inboxes more quickly.”

Here are Google’s hard numbers on Gmail Motion:

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