Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
The World Wide Web can be a "Wild West" of sorts, and for big corporations, they have to take measures to ensure that their brands don't get trashed online. Brandjacking is happening often, through means as diverse as phishing and domain squatting. Don't forget the insidious activity known ...
Posted in Internet Marketing | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Well now web pages have a "birth date" in Google, thanks to a new patent invention by Matt Cutts. The new patent application creates a method for determining a document's inception date, and then using that date to rank other documents.
Posted in Google | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 27th, 2007
People at Google have been filing a lot of patents lately, including "Document Scoring Based On Link-Based Criteria, which are must reads for everyone, despite their dense language. Okay, they're not really must-reads for everyone, but for anyone who wants a glimpse into the thinking of Google engineers concerning ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Google says you better not encourage people to click on ads. I'm sure almost all webmasters are aware that this has been their policy for quite some time, but they're clarifying a bit in this post. Basically, you can encourage people to try out Google Referral products, but ...
Posted in Google Adsense | No Comments »
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I've been studying internet traffic for awhile, and blog traffic that comes in from search engines is interesting to me. Blogs are all geared towards creating community-style users, but most people land on blog pages just don't stick around. This was sort of surprising to me at one ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The way Google treats incoming links lately has been under debate. They've made a number of rumblings lately about vague "webmaster directives" concerning the no-follow meta tag, paid links, and the sort. Google, has stated over and over the sacredness of an "editorially given" link, and I'm not ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Long tail search has been getting plenty of attention in the last few years because it tends to be effective and inexpensive to acquire. For this reason, there are more and more devotees to the art of long tail, including almost everyone who blogs. Bloggers have known for ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
I've been involved with Google Adsense since 2003 and there are a few weaknesses in the program that I don't care for. In one sense, there's an overemphasis on the traffic needing to convert in order for the publisher to make good money. It's a great concept. ...
Posted in Context Sensitive Advertising | 2 Comments »
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
I try and read new SEO blogs nearly every day, and I can honestly say, SEO blogs are about the weakest blogs in any category I monitor in terms of quality of content and communications. The SEOs seem to be very "full of themselves" and it comes across in ...
Posted in SEO | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
This is actually a subject I've talked about before, and now Google has written up a post containing information on how to remove content from the Google index.
There's even information on how to "re-include pages" or "uh oh, get me back in".
To reinclude content
If a request is successful, ...
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