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Small Business SEO with Rich Media

I've discussed repeatedly the use of small business online video. It can improve your search rankings, but it's not the only kind of rich media that can do so. Dev Basu posted an interesting article at Search Engine Journal today that examines how to leverage rich media to quickly boost search engine rankings.

News from Google Businesses Should Pay Attention To

There's been a lot of new coming out of the Google camp over the last day or two, but a few things stick out as important things that small business owners may really want to pay attention to. For one, Google Checkout is raising its fees. The service is definitely not as popular as PayPal yet, but there are probably a great many of you using it anyhow. If so, you've probably already gotten an email about the rate hikes, but if not, it goes something like this:

How to Keep Your Images Out of Google

If you don't want images included on your page to appear in Google, you can use the noimageindex value in the head portion of your HTML page, as shown below (note this value is not new – quite the opposite, it's been around for years – though it's one of the more obscure ones):