Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Well, it was just a matter of time. Someone has to pay for all that bandwidth that is consumed daily as millions of people watch YouTube videos. Well, now Google claims they have a new video format that will help monetize YouTube and that advertisers and users will ...
Posted in Google Adsense | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Google is still far and away my biggest referrer. This is the case no matter how many websites I run and no matter what the topics seem to be. And over the last fours years I'll admit that Google has evolved remarkably. They're never content to rest ...
Posted in Google | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
This week I've seen a ton of shifting in the Google SERPs. Rankings are coming and going, and moving around quite a bit. Whether this is universal or not, I have no way of knowing, but it's been going on for a few days.
I'm not quick ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Here's a comical rant that was published on an alternative media website called "Prison Planet". The title of the post is 100% Proof Google Is Keeping Alternative Media Sites Down. Great title, and absolutely comical when you consider the debunking and smackdown I'm about to lay down on ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
The idea of link bait is a valid one. That's why everyone is, and has been, doing it. Since incoming links have always had such a premium in Google, anyone who wants to rank highly will eventually hit upon the idea of leaving some "link bait" out there ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
According to Adam Lasnik, Google is not looking to increase the rate at which they export Toolbar PageRank values.
A few thoughts...
First, we're unlikely to increase the rate at which we update PR on the toolbar... we don't want folks scrambling, say, daily to check all their pages in the toolbar. ...
Posted in Google | 5 Comments »
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Google is experimenting with a feature to allow users to add comments to news stories on their popular Google News feature. Currently, the feature is only available to certain users.
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
For a long time, search engines competed primarily on the strength of their results and how well they returned the pages people were looking for. Now, the issue is becoming much more complex. One of the major concerns for many search engines users is now privacy. ...
Posted in Search Engines | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Those are the harsh words of Fortune Editor Brent Schlender. For those of us "in the field", who have been dealing with Google for quite some time, the words are not that surprising to hear. Schlender, of course, isn't in the search engine area of business where Google ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
If your run a well-ranked content-based website and plan on continuing to grow your revenue, chances are you'll also need to keep adding content. The internet's demand for new content is insatiable, but searches tend to be fickle, always looking for new and interesting things to read about. ...
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