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How can a site that focuses on video or images improve its rankings?

Google Video, explaining how to improve your rankings if you use lots of video or images on your website.

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Bottom line – its not going to hurt your website if you include

Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

Here is a video from Matt Cutt’s discussing Meta Tags.
In brief, keyword meta tags are not used by Google for Search Ranking — <meta name=”Keywords” content=”not used by google” />
However Google still use the description meta tag –  <meta name=”description” content=”keep using meta descriptions ” />

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Google Analytics New Features

If you  missed you at the Web seminar Google Analytics New Features on December 9, 2009.
Google recorded the webinar and you can watch it on the Google Analytics YouTube Channel.
Google also wanted to update you on the Annotations feature. While all other features discussed in the webinar should be available in your accounts now, the Annotations [...]

Which is better: an HTML site map or XML Sitemap?

Here is another really interesting video from Google Webmaster Central (Which is better: an HTML site map or XML Sitemap?)
Matt explains that both XML and HTML site maps are great — however HTML Site-maps are better, as it allows Google to crawl the Links withing your “sitemap.html” page.

Here is an example of the HTML sitemap [...]

Google Search with My Location and iPhone v3.0

Here is an interesting service from Google, that allows you to search based on your location using your iPhone.  This is very handy if you are looking for local search results, based on your exact location.
Check out the video