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The decision was finalized on Jan. 6, and it prohibits Google from importing products (many of which are manufactured in China) that violate Sonos's intellectual property.

Motivated webmasters can undertake schemes and nefarious habits designed solely to manipulate their rank -- and appear more trustworthy than they actually are. Google, in response, has designed countermeasures to identify instances of rank manipulation and penalize or remove them, accordingly. But just how good is Google at detecting rank manipulation?

Google continues to cause a commotion among designers and marketers still getting a handle on this update, but there are actually easy-to-implement ways of addressing its most pressing issues.

This versatile informational tool hovering on the right of most Google search results pages can be an indispensable PR and sales engine, but how do entrepreneurs get one?