Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category

Vicious Google Update Ends

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

If you're like me, you've been noticing some sever flux in Google for the last month or so. It looks like the vicious updating is over. I hate to say it, but the same websites I have that are always affected by "Google Flux" took a beating, but ...

Major Upheavals Continue In Google

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The Google Index has been rocky lately. Normally I try to ignore Google and their fluctuations as much as I can. But I'm only human, and lately I can't help but notice some major flux. Especially noteworthy is the huge variance between local search and all of ...

In SEO, Crawlability Still Trumps Most Other Issues

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Webmasters complain about their rankings, whenever they notice unexpected changes. It's completely understandable from a human nature standpoint. Who the hell wants to lose something they perceive they've had to work hard to achieve? So when you sense your rankings slipping, you tend to get emotional. ...

Google Is Fighting With European Regulators Over Privacy Issues

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

When you think about internet privacy issues, you realize that they are hardly solved, at all. More people use the internet every day for various and sundry uses, and many of them are unaware of how their personal information is used. The latest controversy finds Google in the ...

Average Time On Site Is A Very Important Metric

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

These days, Google knows as much about a website as its' creator, or close to. If you have your website in Google Analytics, Google tracks every minute detail they can about your website's visitors. To Google, certain factors mean a website is quality, and I'm sure one that ...

On-Page Factors Still Important For Google SEO

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

The basic fundamentals of good SEO still pay off in Google. Google loves easy to identify pages that have clear on-page factors indicating what the topic is about. If you construct your pages with some care, you'll be surprised how easy it is to rank. Of course ...

Google Looks Beyond DoubleClick Deal

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Google expects their takeover of DoubleClick will be approved soon. At that point, they plan on pushing forward into the advertising arena to offer even more options for advertisers. Google plans on making it easy for people to advertise everywhere through one control panel. Tim Armstrong, Google's president of ...

Google’s Long Road To Number One In China

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Google is a company that's used to being number one. In fact, they're used to be so far in first place they don't really have any competition. Therefore, the fact they haven't been able to dominate the search market in China speaks of their need to try a ...

Google Unveiling Social Network Platform

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

One thing about Google, they just can't stand to see anyone be successful on the internet without their involvement. Their attempt at social networking, Orkut, went into the dumper for the most part, but that hasn't stopped the company's ambitions to eventually emerge victorious in the market. In ...

For Adsense Dollars, Scraping Always Continues

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

We've heard many initiatives over the years that have been aimed at removing 'scrapers' from the Google SERPs. And generally events occur the same way. There's a bit of 'die-back' as the scrapers are targeted and temporarily removed. But, since they're run by resilient webmasters, they almost ...