Archive for June, 2005

Numerous Google theories abound

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

It's gotten so its' very tough to read the rantings of webmasters lately, as it concerns Google. The results have been shifting around for a month now, and its' clear that people have been "shook" by this most recent update more than of the others. The thing ...

Google Everflux rampant

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Google Everflux is a fascinating phenonemon. If you're like me, you probably check your log files many times throughout the day. When I do this, I'll often click on search engine referrers to see the results they came in from. In the last few days, almost all ...

Google “deep-crawl” still going on

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

Google has been crawling deep and heavily for the last 3 days. This is all related to the recent Google update which is nearing its' completion. According to GoogleGuy, the update is over except for minor tweaks. What exactly changed in this update is unclear, but it was significant ...

Check your competition in Google

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

We've written a webmaster tool to check your competition in Google. This is our first real use of the Google API, and it's very easy to use. Check your competition in Google. This will run a simultaneous search for your search phrase and it will perform a backlink check. ...

Google Sitemaps launched - offers feed into search engine

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

Google has offered a new innovative program known as Google Sitemaps. In essence, using an XML feed, webmasters can now show much better control of the pages they want indexed by Google. For Google, it represents a feature request that has been standing for many years, and may ...

Google Bourbon update grinds on

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

Since May 21st, Google has shifted hour in and hour during the infamous "Bourbon update". This may be the worst Google update ever. For the most part, almost no happy webmasters appear to be left in place. Both black hat and white hat practioners of SEO seem ...