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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2008
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 18:00:01 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Yahoo Launches Glue Pages ("Universal Search")
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 11:23:29 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Barry at Search Engine Land points out that Yahoo India has glue pages, which some people are comparing to Universal Search, because of classic search results on the left hand column, visual information in the center column and bottom right...
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Performing Keyword Research Without a Computer
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 10:57:49 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- WebmasterWorld member Receptional Andy suggests the unconventional way to perform keyword research: offline with two books. The first book is the useful dictionary. If you do a search for "widget," for example, you may get an origin phrase, and in...
Google Strives to Help Myanmar Cyclone Victims
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 10:45:49 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- After a deathly cyclone ravaged the Myanmar (Burma) region, thousands of people are still hoping for aid while the death toll rises into the six digits. Fortunately, if you go to Google.com today, you'll see that they're looking to help....
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Are Internal Links Weighted the Same as External Links by Google?
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 10:22:26 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A WebmasterWorld member notes that when he does a link: query for a specific domain, it shows only internal links and not external links -- but it depends on the size of the domain. This behavior is only observed on...
How Do You Get Your Images Out Of Google's SafeSearch Filter?
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 09:09:58 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A WebmasterWorld thread has serious discussion on obtaining advice and tips on getting your images out of the Google SafeSearch filter. Basically, sometimes Google might label your images as being sexually explicit or not appropriate for the average searcher. If...
Poll: Do You Report Your Competitors as Spam in Google?
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 08:59:14 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Ann Smarty goes through the conflicts of reporting competitors as spamming Google search results. Yes, this is a topic we covered many times here, including: Reporting Spam: Is It EthicalHow Can I Report Spam to Google?Google Spam Reporting WorkingDoes Google...
Google Says They Fixed AdSense Reporting Bug But Publishers Not Convinced
Posted:Thu, 8 May 2008 08:45:15 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Yesterday we reported about a major reporting bug that impacted both AdWords & AdSense users. Yesterday at about 9pm (EST), Google's AdSensePro Stephanie said the reports were now fixed. Yes, that is about 40 hours after received our first reports...
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 7, 2008
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 18:00:18 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Monday: The Biggest Pay Day For Google AdSense Publishers
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 09:47:40 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A few weeks ago, I ran a poll asking Which Day Do You Make Most Your Google AdSense Income? We now have 92 responses, over the course of the week and most people voted that Monday they earned the...
The Link Farm: How Does Google Define a Link Farm?
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 08:55:50 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A Google Groups thread has a long discussion on how Google defines what a link farm is or is not. I have decided to isolate a Googler's comment, because who can best define what Google feels a link farm is,...
Google AdSense Test Four Text Ads In Large Rectangle Unit
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 08:48:49 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Honestly, I am not sure if this is brand new, but a DigitalPoint Forums thread reports the Large Rectangle (336 x 280) unit as having four text ads within it as new. Here is a screen capture of the ad...
How Do You Tell Google that You're a UK Site?
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 08:42:00 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A WebmasterWorld member says that his .com, which has a UK IP address (and is for the United Kingdom audience), is not being recognized as a UK-specific site even though he updated Google Webmaster Tools and informed Google of the...
Google AdSense & AdWords Reporting Still Showing Incorrect Data After Over 24 Hours
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 08:34:32 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Starting at about 5am (EST) yesterday, I have been noticing reports in the forums about Google being slow to update both the AdSense reports and the AdWords reports. The two largest threads discussing the issues can be found at WebmasterWorld...
Storybids Launched to Pair Creatives with Product Advertisers
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 08:26:41 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- RustyBrick, the company that runs Search Engine Roundtable, is pleased to announce that we finished launching the infrastructure of Storybids, a really unique service offering that enables video producers to monetize their videos through product placement techniques. In other words,...
Yahoo and McAfee Partner to Give Users SearchScan
Posted:Wed, 7 May 2008 08:10:17 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Yahoo has announced on its blog that since security is so important, together with McAfee, Yahoo has launched SearchScan to protect web surfers from sites that contain malicious software such as viruses or software and spam. If you do a...
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2008
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 18:00:20 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Google AdSense Adds "AdSense for Search"
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 11:07:42 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- The Inside AdSense blog talks about the newest feature available to Google AdSense users: AdSense for Search is now powered by custom search. This new feature gives you the following benefits: site search, improved indexing of pages, vertical search, the...
Google Reader Adds "Share With Note" Feature
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 10:46:06 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Want to share something you found particularly useful on Google Reader with some more information? You now can, thanks to a new feature called "Share with Note" that looks just like this: On the bottom of any feed item, click...
Are Long URLs Spammy?
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 10:31:31 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- I'm sure you've seen those URLs -- www.domain.com/4-star-hotel-in-barcelona-spain.php. The question is: is this a tactic that we consider spammy? Not really, according to a High Rankings Forum thread. On the other hand, if it was www.domain.com/4-star-hotel-apartment-penthouse-keyword4-keyword5-keyword6-in-barcelona.php, that may raise some...
The Floating Four At Google: Google's Position Four Seems Funky?
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 09:30:43 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A WebmasterWorld thread has some interesting observations, which I thought would be fun to name the "Floating Four" symptom. In short, it seems like there are some pages that happen to float into the fourth position at Google's search results...
Yahoo Changing Product Submit Fee Structure to Auction Model?
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 09:22:50 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A WebmasterWorld thread has a copy of an email a Yahoo Product Submit advertiser received. The email basically says that Yahoo will be switching from a flat category price structure to a bidding marketplace type of structure, like we have...
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Screen Shots of New Google AdSense Font, Comic Sans
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 09:13:42 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Friday we reported that Google is testing new fonts in AdSense ads. Well, I finally found a screen capture of this in action via DigitalPoint Forums. Here is the screen capture: Pretty funky looking, no? If anything, this is a...
Google Fishing Out AdSense Arbitrageurs Through AdWords Accounts?
Posted:Tue, 6 May 2008 09:05:41 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A WebmasterWorld thread has speculation that Google is now seeking out AdSense arbitrageurs through AdWords accounts. The rumor is that Google is banning AdSense publishers by looking to see if their AdWords accounts are sending traffic to pages with AdSense...
Mindshare Awareness
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 22:05:02 -0400
Google Search Engine Optimization:- Making the search engines aware of your site.
Coin-Op SEO
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 22:05:02 -0400
Google Search Engine Optimization:- Some things are automatic with SEO - But is it worth doing?
Busting Google s 100 Link-Limit Myth
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 22:05:02 -0400
Google Search Engine Optimization:- Proof that you can have more than 100 links on a page and still rank well.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 2008
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 18:00:14 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Please Take Our Reader Survey: Win Schwag & Dinner With Me
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 15:35:44 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- I have created a 15 question reader survey that I hope you can all take. The purpose of the survey is to learn more about you and what you like best about the site. I basically want to learn your...
Google Improves Semantic Search
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 11:09:53 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- A Google Groups member notes that Google seems to be able to stem complex plurals as of late and accurate suffixes. For example, if you search for "accredit" or "accrediting," you will see "accreditation" highlighted as well. Forum members also...
Webmasters Report May 2008 Google SERP Updates
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 10:46:52 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- This month, WebmasterWorld members have observed the same old shuffle in rankings that plagued webmasters in our April 2008 Google SERP Update post. A lot of rankings are dropping, and one webmaster even reports that he's hit a new traffic...
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The Importance of a #1 Google Ranking
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 10:13:24 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Aaron Wall recently wrote a brilliant piece about the value of a #1 Google ranking. In his in-depth article, which is divided into 9 sections, he explains based on research and a variety of forum discussion that even small declines...
Google Basically Admits to Minus 60 Penalty
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 08:58:16 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Remember when I reported that we saw Google Sitelinks in position 60? I said then that it seems Google is admitting to the minus 60 penalty: What I do find very interesting is that Googler, JohnMu, tells the webmaster to...
Poll: Can A Competitor Hurt Your Google Rankings with Links?
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 08:52:22 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Forums have been buzzing and buzzing about the possibility of a competitor being able to hurt your Google ranking for the past few years now. We have covered this topic time and time again, just see here for some of...
Part Of Your Site Needs a Google Review? You Need To Verify That Section With Google Separately
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 08:45:33 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Let's say, you have a subfolder on your domain that gets hacked. The hack causes your subfolder to be penalized by Google, due to the hack. Did you know that in order to issue a request for a review from...
Google Finally Begins Enforcing The Display URL Policy
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 08:39:40 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Since early February we were warning Google AdWords advertisers that Google would be enforcing the display URL policy, where the display URL must match the destination URL. The policy enforcement was suppose to begin on April 1st. On April 10th,...
Microsoft Backs Off Yahoo & Drops Offer
Posted:Mon, 5 May 2008 08:30:55 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Over the weekend, Microsoft finally backed off Yahoo and has decided to pull their offer to buy Yahoo and also decided they would not pursue a hostile takeover of the company. That sums it up basically. Now, if you want...
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 4, 2008
Posted:Sun, 4 May 2008 11:15:10 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- In closing out April and moving into May, we had a fairly slow week of search forum news. We discussed how Google leaked AdWords ranking scores, a Google PageRank update and a Sitelink update. We also saw how GoogleBot is...
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 2, 2008
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 18:00:00 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Weekly Search Buzz Roundup - 05/02/08: Google Ad Scores Revealed, PageRank Update & META Keywords Don't Matter
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 13:01:11 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Is it really May already? I guess time flies when you're working hard. Or something. The latter part of the week was a bit slow, but we still have a lot of great news for you, starting with a PageRank...
Google Combines Street View and Driving Directions
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 11:28:02 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- In order to make it easier to get driving directions and see an intersection or area before you actually get to your desired location, the Google Maps team has integrated driving directions with Street View. For example, take a look...
Are Forums "Social Media" Sites?
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 11:02:18 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Before reading on, would you consider forums "social media?" This is the question that is posed on a High Rankings Forum post. Many people find that the answer varies. Forums, after all, are inherently social -- they bring people together...
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Google's CEO Eric Schmidt Interviewed by CNBC
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 10:42:14 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- CNBC interviewed Google's CEO Eric Schmidt earlier this week and the informative interview is now live for everyone to read. Video is available in three parts: part 1, part 2, and part 3. In a nutshell (thanks to engine and...
Cool Keyword Research Tool: Search Radar
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 10:06:36 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Want to do some keyword research? Check out this cool tool that Cre8asite Forums member eKstreme found: Search Radar and take a look at it in action: The tool looks like it pulls a variety of resources, so there may...
Google Adsense Testing New Font Styles?
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 09:24:44 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Google AdSense publishers are reporting via WebmasterWorld that Google is testing new fonts for the ad titles of the Google contextual ads. The new font styles seen include: Comic SansTimes New Roman The folks in the forum find the Comic...
Advertiser Dreams May Come True: Yahoo May Boost Google Ads Again
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 09:16:29 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Last night, the big news was again Microsoft/Yahoo/Google business dealings. You can see all the headlines at Techmeme, including (1) Microsoft might start the hostile takeover today (tomorrow) and (2) Yahoo might announce they will continue to carry Google ads...
SEOmoz's Web Developer "SEO Cheat Sheet"
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 09:09:05 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- The SEOmoz team released a two page PDF based SEO Web Developer Cheat Sheet that I personally printed out and gave to my RustyBrick developers. I did make a couple changes to it, nothing major. For example, as a matter...
Google Crawl Rate Drops: Google Responds?
Posted:Fri, 2 May 2008 09:00:30 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Yesterday I reported that GoogleBot is crawling less pages then they once were, based on a large WebmasterWorld thread. Now, I spotted a response from a Googler at a Google Groups thread with similar complaints. This time, I decided to...
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2008
Posted:Thu, 1 May 2008 19:00:44 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
Google's Vending Machine - Verdict: Cool
Posted:Thu, 1 May 2008 11:05:03 -0400
Search Engine Roundtable:- Toxigon has a very cool photo of a vending machine in Google's Japan office. Since I'm not sure who took this photograph, I'm showing you a small size image here: The large size image is on the Toxigon website. Are...