Archive for July, 2006
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
If you've had problems with your ODP listing showing up in Google's search results, Google has announced a NOODP tag that will allow you to effectively "opt-out". Danny Sullivan had outlined a good argument on why such a tag would help webmasters, and Google listened.
The tag is easy to ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Normally I take my beatings in stride, but I have to admit to being outraged about a few things lately concerning Google. My oldest website dumped on 6/27/2006 along with a host of others, and this ends up hurting my income in two ways. 1) I have less ...
Posted in Context Sensitive Advertising, Google | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
The Google party plane is causing controversy, and it hasn't even left the ground yet. Page and Brin are loving their new billionaire status. They were most concerned about the bedding situation on the plane. They both wanted California King-size beds.
For a September ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Google is a remarkable company. They're remarkable because they're one of America's greatest success stories. They're also remarkable for being one of the most inept companies in history. How many companies can you think of that run betas on their live search index? What kind of ...
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
SEO involves "waiting around" quite a bit. In fact, if you're not patient, you won't stand a chance in the game. It takes search engines days, weeks, and even months to update the changes in their index. What if you're more pro-active than that and don't want ...
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Yes, volume of traffic makes a difference to your paycheck if you work online. But it's not the sole determining factor. Visitors who convert end up being most important to long term success. Traffic that's not particularly on-target, or is difficult to convert (think of people ...
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Saturday, July 8th, 2006
Google has sucked for a long time, but now it's getting even worse. On 6/27/2006 thousands of websites were dropped from Google's rankings as part of a failed update that would eventually roll back. This is except for the websites which have been sent to hell for the ...
Posted in Google | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 7th, 2006
Everyone wants better rankings in the search engines. If you can garner free traffic, it will help fuel the growth of your website. It's not easy to always land top spots, but there are a number of principles you can apply which should almost guarantee top placements for ...
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
I was thinking more about the poor Google rankings lawsuit and I have to say, no way should a lawsuit like this be taken seriously. First off, check out the website in question (It's nothing special). Secondly, Google never promised you a rose garden. Their rankings are ...
Posted in Google | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Some people thought it wouldn't happen, but the lawsuit about Google rankings is set to go forward. The company was sued by Kinderstart, a web directory that feels they should rank higher in Google's results pages.
KinderStart alleges that its parenting search engine site suffered an approximate 70 percent drop ...
Posted in Google | 1 Comment »
