Apologies for the lack of posts recently. My blog man Viggen is having huge internet connection problems in South Africa. I'm a busy teddy bear, but will attempt to fill in until he gets it sorted. Alan

Link Vault has grown substantially and has recieved some excellent reviews... http://www.cre8pc.com/blog/2005/04/innovative-free-new-advertising.html http://www.seo1.net/thread1720.html Changes since launch: * Categories have been expanded (40 instead of previous 12) and links are actually being placed on themed sites first if there are any. * A referral system is in place to which rewards with some nifty features ...

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser passed a significant milestone in adoption on Friday, with more than 50 million copies of the program downloaded, according to its distributors. via News.com

Google has plans that will dramatically improve the results of internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search terms. The ambitious system is revealed by patents filed in the US and around the world (WO 2005/029368) by researchers based at ...

The new version of Apple's operating system, dubbed Tiger, will strengthen media owners keen to promote RSS feeds as a traffic-building feature. Safari, Apple's built in web browser features even greater integration of RSS, the syndication format taking off among web publishers. Safari will also be a boon to Google, ...

Search Engine Strategies Toronto got under way today with the usual slew of panels on how to improve and optimize search engine results. New to the event this year was a standing-room-only panel that included Gord Hotchkiss, president and CEO of search research firm Enquiro, and Debbie Jaffe, product marketing manager ...

Nearly half of marketers already doing online advertising will decrease spending in traditional advertising channels to pay for an increase in their online ad spending this year, according to a survey released yesterday by Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, MA. Search engine marketing is expected to fuel much of that growth. via ...

Google Labs has released a beta version of its Web Accelerator software designed to make surfing the Internet faster and more efficient. The search giant said the latest application will speed the online experience and save significant amounts of time when pulling up Web pages. "Web Accelerator is an application that uses ...

Yahoo's engine searches both the Web and the content of its media partners and those companies that distribute video via Media Really Simple Syndication, a self-publishing specification that enables publishers to distribute audio and video to Web-content aggregators. “Yahoo! Video Search provides consumers with the most comprehensive index of video available ...

Google has raised privacy and security hackles once again, this time by developing an application that accelerates Web surfing but can also delete pages or serve up password-protected content. via News.com

A Yahoo Inc. study released today analyzing financial adviser client HarrisDirect's campaign claims that online display advertising increased the number of relevant searches by more than 61 percent. Clicks on sponsored search advertising links leading directly to HarrisDirect's site at theharris.com also jumped 249 percent after a user was exposed to ...

Search engine blinkx has struck a content agreement with Transmission Films, a subscription based online movie service. The deal means blinkx will make Transmission Films' entire catalogue searchable and accessible on its video search engine, www.blinkx.tv. Users can search across Transmission Films' library of 350 films, and access the exact scene they ...

The first UK-biased search engine information site went live this week. Search Engine War is run by the technical team at Neutralize and includes news, comment, blogs and resources for search engine marketers in the UK. Coming from the “frontline of search engine marketing” it aims at sharing and informing “real ...

Metasearch engine Dogpile.com redesigned its site, letting users compare results across search engines, and is emphasizing the importance of metasearch to Web users. The Bellevue, WA, company also plans to increase online marketing spending this year to promote that consumers can search several engines simultaneously. In its surveys, consumers think metasearch is ...

Google continued to move beyond its search roots this week by acquiring social networking service Dodgeball.com. The New York-based Dodgeball.com, the brainchild of two graduate students at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, is a service that helps members find and chat with each other using text messages sent to phones. The ...

Google recently announced the beta version of Google Accelerator -- "an application," in Google's own words, "that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make Web pages load faster." Meanwhile, Google offers e-mail. Google, and soon other search services, has extended search advertising possibilities onto Web sites themselves. And ...

Exclusive city restaurants and Festival venues have been listed as "brothels" on the world’s leading internet search engine. The new Google Maps website allows surfers to pinpoint the location of any type of business in the UK using a simple search string. But if someone looking for a house of ...

Google released late Tuesday a desktop search product for businesses with the aim of helping workers more quickly find information on the Web, in their computer hard drives and e-mail inboxes, as well as on corporate intranets. via News.com

Google has launched a beta of its AdSense programme for online advertising that puts commercial messages in news feeds. Shuman Ghosemajumder, AdSense product manager at the search giant, revealed the news on the Google blog. via Vnunet

In what appears to be a broadside aimed at MyYahoo, Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that lets people set up a personalized Google home page. The feature, which has not yet been named, lets people with Gmail and other Google accounts create a home page with different modules ...

At the Google Factory Tour, a press event held at the search leader's main campus here, visitors got a high-level look at how the company plans to advance and intertwine its products... via internet.com

Shares of Internet search leader Google hit a record high on Monday and closed up almost 6 percent in heavy trading amid speculation that the stock could be added to the S&P 500 index. via News.com

Ask Jeeves on Thursday is expected to add new features to its search engine with the aim of setting its service apart from rivals. via News.com

All search is local. That twist on the famous political rule of thumb soon will become reality for search, the fastest-growing online marketing activity. Estimates claim that 40 percent of all search queries are for local services or products and 92 percent of local searches convert offline. "[But] there's really no one ...

Yahoo! Europe has selected online marketing firm TradeDoubler to manage its affiliate marketing, campaigns, ad-serving and site tracking. via Netimperative

Many may have noticed a distinct lack of pagerank on any sites. Is this permanent or temporary? frankly, i dont care either way. Pagerank for me is only useful for getting crawled more regularly, crawled deeper, a bit of an ego boost and that's about it. I don't rate Pagerank for ...

The government is counting on new search technology to sniff out terrorists. Google is the No. 1 free tool to snoop on friends or strangers. But government agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration are investing in a new search engine being developed at the University of Buffalo to do some ...

Yahoo is testing a technology that separates consumer searches by commercial searches -- such as those for product information -- or informational searches, the company said Friday. "Sometimes you want to buy stuff and sometimes you just want to do research," Yahoo's Search blog states about the new Mindset technology. On a ...

Whether a name change will improve their sponsored listings market share is yet to be seen. Espotting used to be top division for sponsored listings together with Overture but lost more partners than you can shake a stick at over the last year or two. I hope for their sake ...

European search engine Seekport has integrated a new feature into its UK service that identifies homographs- words with the exact same spelling but two different meanings. via Netimperative

An interesting development in e-Commerce from Sky Interactive was announced today. Surfing on your TV with Sky is soon to be a reality. from their full press release... "Sky Interactive is to create a new interactive television portal that will enable website operators to reach a potential audience of around 20 million users through ...

As some of you may have noticed from my blog entry on the 27th June that I was in desperate need for someone with a professional background in SEO and research. Fortunately Bob Mutch came forward and has offered to help me out. Below a short Bio on Bob who ...

*sigh* Unfotunately Viggen could no longer contribute posts here and I simply don't have the time to post on this blog. Therefore, I'm looking for someone experienced in SEO and in search engine world research to help me out and who is able to post at least one entry every couple ...

Randfish has started a thread over at the SEO Chat Forum where you can ask questions directly to the MSN Search team. Rand will be conveying them to his contact with the MSN Search people and posting back their answers. Here is a sample of the questions ...

Aaron Wall (SEO expert, eBook author and forum moderator) interviews David Naylor. Dave is a moderator at Search Engine Watch and is a well know Black/Grey/White hat from UK. It's a short interview but it's good for a read.

SEO/SEO Blogs, as we all know, are a good way to keep up with search news. Search experts take the time to feed us with quality information with their own personal touch and as seen through their eyes. While most people have a number of favorite blogs, it’s ...

Google has released the Google Toolbar BETA for Firefox. This toolbar works where ever FireFox installs, so that means Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS X 10.2 or greater, and Linux. Before the Google toolbar for Firefox came out you could either use the Pagerank Status from the mozdev.org pagerankstatus project, or ...

Mike Grehan writes an interesting article over at Click Z on What Price PageRank and his opinion on valuing inbound links by Pagerank. Mike takes the view that "A link from a popular and well visited Web site can be invaluable if it sends you qualified traffic that converts. ...

Darrin Ward an administrator at the SEO Town Forum has just posted a list of 39 New Google Datacenters in google.com sub-domain format.

Jeremy Zawodny has a bird because Search Engine Journal didn't drop a link to the Yahoo! Search blog for a post where they quoted a large part of. I feel better now for all the links I have been throwing around.

The Google money is here so Look Out for Googlers. They are buying lots of the homes in the elite Atherton area just minutes from the Google headquarters in Mountain View. Looks like Google effects traffic to more than just your website.

SEO Digital Point Forum thread Quadrupled by CRT thanks to DP memebers has an interesting discuss on where pictures directly above your Adsence ads help. DP member Critters shows in detail his before and after pages and tells how his CTR when up 400%. Interesting Related Links: Official Google ...

Lots of discuss about directories these days. Martinibuster has a few good points on his post Directories with a Kick Me Sign on Their Backs but I think he goes a bit too far. Nick over at threadwatch.org posted a Directories and Clueless Webmasters thread on Martinibuster’s post and as ...

Well I am feeling mature today. Here it is a day after a Toolbar Pagerank update has happened and I am only getting around to updating my Pagerank Update List. I havn't even posted a "me too" on any of the SEO forum threads this update. Well ...

Well we just had a Page Rank update less than two weeks ago on July 14th and I am still getting emails about people that are concerned why their Pagerank has changed. I have posted this list before and it is in one of the articles on my site but ...

I blogged on Mike Grehan's first article What Price PageRank? and now he has taken another wack at the Green bar with his What Price PageRank? Part 2 article . As hard as it is for some to realize that the sweet green bar is now completely irrelevant, it's ...

How to add up a sitemap in 7 easy steps. 1. Go to this Google Sitemap Generator page. -- This is a free utility that will help you construct your site map. *Note this process only works for smaller site with a maximum of 750 pages. 2. Enter the URL of your ...

Yahoo updated on July 20th. Thread at Digital Point is showing a Massive Jump in Yahoo BL. While most reports have seen a jump in backlinks (I picked up 15k on my main site) I started looking in to this when a client wanted to know why the web ...

GoogleGuy is a engineer at Google who posts at the Search Engine News Forum, at the WebmasterWorld Forum, and has posted some comments at ThreadWatch. A number of people are wondering if the March 23rd comments posted at Slashdot on Web pages being hijacked where he takes a wack at Nick ...

An interesting thread over that Webmasterworld on mistakes that people have made that decreased their AdSence income. 1. Picked up a penalty by doing some spammy things. 2. SEO'ed their site for a key phrase that they wanted to rank for that ended up effecting the Ads displayed and got paid less. 3. ...

Nick W. over at ThreadWatch did a quality review on Aarons SEO Book. I purchased Aarons SEO Book about a year or so ago when it was $39.95. The price has gone up to $79 and at that price it is still a super deal. And get this -- if you ...

Seems like everyone is interviewing everyone. Or perhaps that has been going on and I have been to busy to notice. Anyway Aaron Wall the well known SEO eBook writer interviews Jason Duke ower of Strange Logic (which is a strange Web site - check it ...

Aaron Wall is the publisher one the best known SEO eBooks on the internet. Andy Hagans gave him a short interview on Link Building Blog.

So MicroSoft picked a name for the next version of windows. Here is the video of the new name anouncement. Pronunciation: vis-ta Dictionary.com Noun: 1a. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees. 1b. An avenue or other ...

I decided to parse the titles from the RSS feed of this blog and stick them on my home page. I Googled up PHP Parsing RSS and I was off to the races with a quality article from SitePoint. I wanted things formated a bit different with the description dropped ...

For a release that primarily addresses security and user interface issues there sure is a long list of fixes, even if we have to wait till BETA2 to see them. Personally I am glad to see they are or will be addressing the hover on all elements. I ...

Pages used to be rated by Pagerank. When the Pagerank (PR) value of the page your inbound links came from carried ranking weight, the PR value was used by many as a gauge for the value of that link. A link from a PR9 page when for $1,000 to $2,500, ...

Yahoo! has purchase Konfabulator and they have http://widgets.yahoo.com/ up already. Make sure you take time to read the quality marketing 10 part cartoon on the history of Konfabulator. It starts here and ends here. Konfabulator is a JavaScript engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run files called ...

Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable has posted his coverage schedule SES San Jose Triple Play Coverage Schedule of the Aug 8th to 11th San Jose Search Engine Strategies.

Hugh MacLeod and Alistair Shrimpton are assembling a central database of people who design blogs. So if you have always wanted a blog but don't have time to put one up because you are to busy making money then check this list out. Have a blog design expert ...

Aug 8th Aug 8th San Jose SES Agenda SERoundtable -- Competitive Research SERoundtable -- From Broad to Specific: Capitalizing on vertical search and other niche publishing opportunities. SERoundtable -- Vertical Creep Into Regular Results SearchViews -- Vertical Creep SearchViews -- Buying Search Engine Advertising SERoundtable -- Personalized Search & Search History SERoundtable -- Search APIs SERoundtable -- ...

Aug 10th Aug 10th San Jose SES Agenda SERoundtable -- Search Engine Q&A On Links Stephan Spencer -- Search Engine Q&A On Links SERoundtable -- Usability Clinic SERoundtable -- Buying and Selling Links WebProNews -- Getting The Kinks Out Of Links SERoundtable -- Site EGC SERoundtable -- Advanced Linking Strategies SERoundtable -- Executive Roundtable with Search Engine Executives SERoundtable -- ...

Tim Mayer over at the Official Yahoo Blog posts Our Blog is Growing Up – And So Has Our Index on there 1st blog anniversary and drops a few number. Among the numbers given is their claim of a 20 billion document index. Everyone thought 8 billion was ...

Aug 9th Aug 9th San Jose SES Agenda SERoundtable -- Search Engine Advertising Forum SERoundtable -- Indexing Summit 2: Redirects, Titles & Descriptions SERoundtable -- Ad Reps: Friend or Foe? - How to Handle Situations with Search Engines Going Direct to Your Clients SERoundtable -- Landing Page Testing & Tuning SERoundtable -- Link Building Basic SERoundtable -- ...

The following are some interesting posts from here and there on what some of the search engine people are saying on the side lines. Christoph C. Cemper -- Google engineers on Link value, VIPS, Flash, Duplicate Content and crawler budget SERoundtable -- Why Using A Static IP Address is Benefical... Google Engineer ...

Aug 11th Aug 11th San Jose SES Agenda SERoundtable -- Spanish Language SEM SERoundtable -- Meet the Crawlers: Submissions and Feeds Edition. SERoundtable -- My SEM Toolbox Stephan Spencer -- Favorite SEO Tools SERoundtable -- Meet the B2B Search Engines SERoundtable -- Measuring: The Time Warp SERoundtable -- Organic Listings Forum SERoundtable -- B2B Tactics

Matt Cutts a well known Google engineer and PR (thats both Pagerank and public relations) man has start has own blog. This is going to be up at the top of my list with Barry's SearchEngine Roundtable and Nick's Threadwatch. Matt notes his reason for starting the blog and some ...

1. What is a Web directory? Web directories are similar to the yellow pages in your phone book. A Web directory provides pages for many different categories and on those pages they list Web sites that are relevant to that category. 2. What are the benefits of submitting to Web ...

We were wondering if the AdSense people would match the AdWord people and do a blog too. Well Monday afternoon, 3 months later to the day, Rob Kniaz posted the first post on the new Google AdSense Blog. Google is still a pretty small place, so when we ...

I found this interesting thread Directories banned? over on Digital Point forum that discusses a number of directories that have been PR0'ed lately. Interesting read!

I got an email from Brad Callen this morning in which he discusses his 90 page PDF'ed Free SEO eBook which he states is "honestly better than any other SEO eBook on the market, hands down." Check it out - Download Brad's Free SEO eBook. I read the ...

1) Read lots on the ODP editing guidelines. Open Directory Editing Guidelines is a good place to start. 2) Get some experience by becoming an editor on some of the other directories link Skaffe.com, JoeAnt.com, or Zeal.com. 3) Pick the right category – Pick a category you have expertise in ...

SEO Company has put their SEO Tools Directory into a RSS feed and have included a XML to XHTML file that converts the feed to XHTML and applies a format to it with the included seo-tools.css file. The XML to XHTML conversion file (seo-tools-xml2xhtml.php) can be added to you web site ...

Well Phil Ringnalda sure stirred one up this time with his O'Reilly Joins The Search Engine Spam Parade when he noted that three O'Reilly sites have text link ads with anchor text like, Cuban cigar, Jack Daniels, and cheap hotels. Tim O'Reilly responded back with Search Engine Spam? and the comments ...

I have kind of been watching this suit shape up and it looks like Aaron is going to go ahead. He has now posted a "Make a Donation" button on his August 26th NOTICE! YOU HAVE BEEN SUED post that shows payment to "SEO Book Legal Fund Donation". I ...

Just got a news release sent to me on the new Multilingual Search Blog by Web Certain. Andy Atkins-Krüger is the managing editor and this blog already has a impressive list of editors. Andy states in the PR "We are actively talking to potential new editors throughout the globe ...

Well there was another useless backlink export and Google directory Pagerank export on September the 4th. There was a Toolbar Pagerank export reported on some forums but it didn't happen. PR wienies here and here were out wishing each other luck. There were checking their almost useless backlink values and ...

Many people still don’t know that PayPal now handles credit card payments without the purchaser having a PayPal account. So if you are going to use PayPal for your credit card payments you are going to have to make it pretty clear that this can be done with out ...

We were all wonder where Andy would reappear. As of Sept. 6th Andy Beal is back blogging at newly created blog Marketing Pilgrim. Back in July when he left WebSourced/Think citing differences with the new direction, he left behind Search Engine Lowdown. Andy had started up ...

Lots of talk about Google use of titles and descriptions from DMOZ and Yahoo using the titles and descriptions from Yahoo directory. Once in a while you read some where some one notes that they lost their Yahoo ranking because the title and description changed. “I have lost my yahoo ...

Well looks like Google wants to rule the world. Google launched GoogleTalk about 30 days ago and I just got around to trying it. I downloaded GoogleTalk and had it up and running in about three or four minutes. You need a GMail account for GoogleTalk ...

DogPile meta search engine release a nice comparison tool that visually illustrates search engine overlap in the top results for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. DogPile Search Comparison Tool picked up the belated (it was released back in May) Best September Tool at the SEO Tool ...

Well if you are going to do reciprocal links and your domain is with Godaddy.com you may want to move it. Max posted over at ThreadWatch.org how Godaddy suspended 24 of their domains. Seeing I have over 50 domains at Godaddy I decided to contact him and get ...

The Site-Sift Web Directory picked up a Google ban back on Aug the 24 just one day after Tim O’Reilly named it out and accused the directory of having no sites in the categories and just being there for AdSense. Another so-called Web Directory is indeed a directory, but the ...

When people used to purchase text link ads based on the Pagerank (PR) vote they would receive, the number of outbound links on that page was very important to them. The reason for this was that the available Pagerank a web page has to vote is voted evenly to all pages. ...

Like most people I like to talk about the things that are working for me and as a blogger I like to blog about them. The following review of Rent A Coder (RAC) is based and motivated by the success I have had with their services. RAC corporate ...

When you are looking at what you need to do to increase business on your Website there are two main things you need to look at. How to drive the market to your site and when you get them there how to convert them into sales. This is written with ...

Abakus Internet Marketing is delighted to announce that for the first time Google has introduced an Adwords Advisor for the German market at the Abakus Forum. The handle is "AdWords-Berater" and are two Google Employees from Dublin called Madita und Michel... Here is the introduction post from them (in german) ...

Aaron Wall the well known SEO eBook author pulls off a quality interview with Matt Cutts our favorite Google engineer. Most SEO types eat up every thing Matt has to say and I am no exception on that. So if you haven't read it yet you will want to hop ...

Well I was just reading a silly thread on one of the forums where members were arguing about which free directories to submit to and which ones not to. I say when it comes to submitting sites to free non-reciprocal directory who cares. Submit to them all. If you ...

I have been keeping an eye on Matt Cutts blog looking for some kind of a weather report. Well it just came through. We are just about to have a Pagerank and Backlink export. Just to give you a heads-up, I think a new set of backlinks (and possibly PageRank) ...

There is a new version of the Google Toolbar out and some website pages are showing a PR0. Google's Version Info is not even showing this version. Here is a screen shot of the About Google Tool Bar screen. The strange thing is the sites that are PR0 with the ...

Brett Tabke names the update that is happening Update Jagger (message #7). GoogleGuy has also announced on message #40 that he is expecting a "new PR/backlinks to be visible in a few days. I'll let you know if that changes." So here is a have a new kind of weather report. ...

True to their word the TBPR and BL export are on. Both Matt Cutts and GoogleGuy announced this, Matt on his blog and GoogleGuy over on the Webmaster World forms. This is the first time it has been pre-announced. The thing is nobody but those living in the past, ...

Sunday and Monday only Skaffe is offering submissions for $2. Skaffe's regular price is $40 so this is a huge deal to say the least! I happen to be a level 3 editor over there and this directory is with out a doubt one of the top 10 English ...

Well I don't know what to thing of that. I found it hard to believe. But here it is www.msn.com only has a PR2. Google what is up with that? Matt? GoogleGuy? Google shows the msn.com domain to be in the index so there ...

Brad Fallon has got bit by the pixel craze. Most people have heard about 21 year old Alex Tew from Wiltshire England that need money to go to school and came up with the idea of The Million Dollar Homepage (MDHP) where he is selling the pixels off his ...

I was Googling around looking for more article sites to add to my list and and found #1 for "article site submission list" Robin Good's post on Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites. All 139 of them!!! This page is a treasure mine. Take 15 mins and go ...

Well looks like Uncoverthenet is under a penalty. Its home page has dropped from a PR8 to a PR0. You can read the Uncoverthenet Directory PR0 thread over at DigitalPoint to see what everyone is saying. A year ago I would say that if this happened it would be gone ...

Brian Turner from Britecorp Internet Marketing posted a request at Resource-Zone (R-Z) asking that the editors there to Please remove my listing. R-Z is a public forum sponsored and moderated by DMOZ editors. The thread got a bit hot and I counted a total of four Metas, three Editalls, ...

DMOZ Editall Jeanmanco has just updated her resource page Google and Dmoz - Are They in Love ?. It covers the history of Google and DMOZ and provides some very good information. With all the noise about Google starting to use DMOZ descriptions more, it makes for a ...

Well the other night I discovered 18 more local Websites using MSN Search that I didn't know about. It is suprising how many Websites there can be in the town of 6500 people. I got to thinking it sure would be nice if there was not so much ...

Jim Boykin founder of WeBuildPages has some of the best free internet based SEO Tools on the planet. His Backlink Check Tool just won the Best Oct Tool over at SEO Company's SEO Tools Directory. If you would like a bit more info on Jim drop over to Aaron's ...

Well Colemanbusiness Website Design was thinking when they came up with this nice simple tool and they grabbed a good domain to boot. Check Rankings gives you an one week or one month graph chart of your keyword rankings. CHECKRANKINGS.COM was registered on Oct 31 2005 (can ...

Tim Mayer posted a weather report over at the Yahoo Search Blog Tuesday evening. It is going to be mild compared to the last one but a good time to keep your eyes on your SERPs.

Whenever i get a strange result at Google and want to check at what Google IP this is happening i just look at the bottom of my Firefox -Browser, there i can see the IP thanks to ShowIP - Firefox Extension. It also gives me whois info from various providers... cheers viggen ...

The dread of all directories owners, to wake up one morning and find their directory PR0'ed. While no one wants to see their site under a penalty, for Web directories owners it can mean the end or a huge cut on their business. Well this past PR export ...

I have a coder from India that I contracted on RAC searching up quality SEO Tools for SEO Companies SEO Tool Directory at a $1 a pop. There are some nice ones here that you may not of seen. If you know of a quality SEO Tool (or any ...

I just an incident where a webmaster took me to task for not knowing what I was talking about. It was concerning the best way to find out if a Web page is in the Google index or not. He claimed that the cache: command was the ...

Rand Fishkin a moderator at the SEOChat Forum blogged today about how the Changes to SEOChat caused him to fly the coup and that there is a mass exodus of members and moderators happening over there. This is all over SEOChat applying nofollow tags to the SIGs, and then deleted ...

Terry_SA a member at Threadwatch.org coined the term GoogleBowling back in April of this year in a discussion on Current Thinking on Linking for Google. GoogleBowling is where a large number of run of site (ROS) links are pointed at a site and Google's ranking algorithm gives that site a penalty ...

Greg Boser has an interesting post over at Web Guerrilla Web Marketing Blog called The Truth About Reciprocal Link Networks. He tells about a ex-client that emailed him when he dropped out of the SERP's in the middle of Google's Jagger 1-2-3 update. Ends up Greg's ex-client had picked up ...

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org has come out with a 29 page SEO Guide in HTML and Word format. The 3 pages of resources at the back alone make it a worth while read. I have printed it out and will be working on a full review which I ...

I got an email for an ebay auction of a site wide banner ad placement on a Web directory this morning. It's amazing how distracted I can get over one email. I ended up Googleing up some interesting stuff. I have found by combining good design and relevant placement ...

Bobbie Johnson a technology correspondent wrote an article for the Guardian this week about his test of what he calls black hat manipulate. He used what he called "black hat SEO unethical strategies" and a "spoof site" to get a test site to rank first place for the ...

Well there is another fresh round of discuss and posts in the SEO community about text link ads and the nofollow tag due to Jermey Zawodny a high profile Yahoo employee selling text link ads with out the nofollow link. I have posted a few of the main links below on ...

link:domain -site:domain Not that Goggle link: command means much any more but you can now use the -site:www.seocompany.com and even see less links with their link: commmand. link:www.seocompany.ca shows 387 links. link:www.seocompany.ca -site:seocompany.ca shows 57 links. Both Yahoo and MSN have had this switch available for as long as I can remember.

I just wanted to wish all readers a happy and successful new year. I will have more time to help out Bob in the coming months with posts and articles. One coming up is on mod rewrite and another to follow on Jagger. Last year saw Google go to ...

For what it`s worth; Alexa hasnt`t updated their stats for almost a week now, reason is they moved server (on the 24th). Three days later Geoffrey Mack posts at Alexa, "hmm sorry, something went wrong, The rollback should be complete within the hour" That was 4 days ago...

We all remember the joy when selected adwords/adsense clients got a nice christmas present from Google! A couple of weeks later this nice gesture turned very sour in Germany. Google filled out the custom papers wrong (they forgot to tick on "duty delivery paid") and now every one that got ...

Google Facts & Fiction 2006 Fiction: A competitor can ruin a site's ranking somehow or have another site removed from Google's index. Fact: There's almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. Your rank and your inclusion are dependent on factors ...

Philipp pointed me into this direction where one can find a collection of popular Google Videos. On that list, the Nr.6 caught my attention, first i havent heard much from Johann Pachelbel in a while and second i just love to listen to modern interpretations of classics. Now off i go ...

Now, i am no expert when it comes to cookie technology, actually i know very little about it, however when i read Google BigDaddy = SEO Honeypot? at Threadwatch i thought to myself, hmm lets check my cookies, and indeed i found (apart from the regular google.com cookie) two more ...

When i saw the german ODP`s editor blog i thought wow, those guys stole Matt Cutts design... A quick look will show that the german ODP blog is actually much older then Matts, so did Matt steal from the germans? Of course not, he even mentioned a while back he ...

This might probably be old news for some, but i hardly search for news on yahoo these days, so i was surprised to see right of the serps, (where one would ads expect to be) a box with related blog news regarding your query...

This is probably just laywer gibberish, but when you go to the german Ask site you see under the terms of service the following... Die Gebühren oder Kosten für die Nutzung dieser Site werden, falls zutreffend, von Zeit zu Zeit auf der Ask Deutschland Site festgesetzt. Which basically means "The fees ...

One reply at Matt Cutts Blog made me sad... I emailed Google and got the response that purchasing links was against Googles guidelines. Ok, so Google doesnt want people to buy links, it is their engine, so do as you please, BUT have you ever searched for something like Text Links, or ...

It must have happend a couple of days ago, all of a sudden the description tag is now used by Google again. I havent seen those in a long time, but now they are all over the place...

...which is great if you cant type, dont know much about the internet or how SE work, however which sucks if you have half a brain cell... I found this at the german Abakus Forum. Someone was searching for "Haed Modelle 06/07. Now below there is a suggesten in german (which ...

Did you know that there are talks to creat a Top Level domain called .berlin? The reason is .de domains are getting scarce. You think its a good idea?

Now thats a once in a life time event that will happen soon. The special german character ß gets soon a capital version. (in caps ß is up to now written as ss. (e.g. Maße (measure) was written MASSE, but Masse can also mean (matter, or bulk). Even more ...

...now obviously thats not true... ...however, imagine the implications for Google. No matter how many agreements Matt Cutts had to sign not to reveal anything, who is going to stop him to play the SEO game and do his own projects? One could argue well he is rich enough, or he is ...

In the United Kingdom, complaints about various online advertising campaigns rose by 33 percent in 2006, per an annual report by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA changed or removed approximately 2,421 advertisements after complaints were filed. via The Register

Yeah Yeah, the world is spinning fast, everyone wants to make a quick dime, get thousands of visitors within a day, but dont really want to work for it. Sounds familiar? Recently a Webmaster approached me about a very competetive search phrase, he wanted to get loads of visitors, didnt want ...

Wow, 26th of October 2006 was my last entry, and since then it was one big mess. My place burned down, once i almost got sorted out i had an emergency surgery because of a Thrombosis. 6 months away from the net oh my, how do you keep up with all ...

This is not going to happen, but just think for a moment, if every website out there has the noindex tag, who suffers more, the search engine or the webmaster? Something to ponder about...

I just heard at the only german SEO podcast seoFM, that from december on, seoFM will be the first non english show at Webmasteradio. It will be broadcast live once a week. The visitors can actually choose which time slot they would like to hear the show live. The ...

In september, Danny Sullivan posted that President`s Bush site was no longer Nr.1 for the search phrase "miserable failure"... Checking today, http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/ is again Nr.1 for "miserable failure" and "failure"... btw. I love Google`s apologetic Adword Ad on top of that search, basically saying, "sorry but our algo sucks, there`s nothing ...

As you might have noticed there is currently a PR Update going on and my personal conclusion (bare in mind this is obviously not very scientific, as i only have one site in question here), is that either .edu or wikipedia PR-passing-power has been reduced (or maybe both?). My educational ...

A search for the german phrase "this site is using Google Analytics" yields about 150.000 results... Diese Website benutzt Google Analytics There is uncertainty if a german webmaster who is using Google Analytics is actually in accordance with german privacy laws. At a german SEO workshop Google employees apparently advised webmasters(links to ...

If you go to www.amazon.co.za you don`t end up on Amazon`s Webshop for South Africa (there isn`t one), but instead on the Amazon Development Centre of South Africa. This is, as far as i know, online since middle of 2005. Now anyone knows what those guys are actually doing? At ...

Today i eventually signed up for the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. More then once i found a reference to it in other news/blogs and it always irritated me that i couldnt have access to the full article. This is actually the first time i pay for a ...

Monster.com just got a bit more interesting with their new channel dedicated to online marketing... A search for SEO results in just under 400 jobs. There you can find offering from companies like AOL, Business.com, Amazon or Orbitz...

One of my projects is a very well ranked informational type of site. Top Quality stuff. Top ranked across all engines. Got links from hundreds of Universities around the world. The search engine market share of 2006 for this site is so far...1. Google ...

I recently started researching (in German) for a new graphic card and was therefore looking for some online comparisons between ATI and Nvidia, i type in "Grafikkarten Vergleich" (graphic cards comparison). I get 1.7 million results, so far so good. First result is an article from 2003! Second result is an article ...

Just wondering, what services from Google do you use other then search? Google seems to bring out almost weekly new services and tools that no one seems to need. Is this Google`s Business Plan, bring out as many as products as possible because one of them will maybe take off? ...

Yahoo Offers up to $1 Billion For Facebook Buyout I guess i dont get it, how can this be worth 1 billion? Have we moved back in time and are now steering towards one big (social network) dot.com bubble again and focusing on increasing market share at the expense of the ...

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No idea if this is floating around in public (it says on the page "Google Confidential"). It is about a year old, but Daniel Clancy (Engineering Director of Google Print) gives some insights how he felt about Google Book Search back then. A Book Discovery Program by Daniel Clancy

I recently heard good things about Azoogle on Webmasterradio, so i thought, "well why not give it a try". It turns out, this Azoogle is a very strange place indeed. I have been with Adsense, Amazon, CJ for years, with YPN almost since it`s beginning, all of them basically need ...

Thanks to no way of syndicating his Robots.txt Blog (or is there?), i missed his entry from the 18th of May titled " Wavers - Webmasters That Rode The Google Links Wave" The majority of the SEO knowledge out there today is about links. From services that provide linking, to sites ...

It has been seen before, and now i can see this too... For my search on Beijing, i get this... If i click on one of the suggestions i get this... If you look at the results you see a Labeled Dining Guides

Now yesterday a new feature was introduced by Google, called Google Trends. Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. While thats already ...

The search engines are moving more and more away from a "search the web" to a search "within our property" service. Google Health is the latest in a series of new implementations of "Google`s Reality" of the web, as if there weren`t already enough feature that distract from regular Google Search. ...

Due to some recent changes at Google, they will only be accepting 200 more subscribers to AdSenseAccelerator before closing out membership....

According to Matt Cutts some legitimate sites can expect to get notified by the webspam team of their wrong doings... Will this be applicable to (what a stupid little hidden link) Expedia.com too?

I know little to nothing about Albania, but this entry in the economy section, does not sound right... The country mainly exports heroin produced in Afghanistan, and imports most of its stolen cars from Western Europe. Money for imports comes from financial aid from the NATO and from the money ...

...at least in Germany. I tried to search for a cheap voice recorder at Froogle.de. Well, the first 30 results lead me to Amazon.de telling me "Sorry this article is no longer available" Huh? Thanks Google for wasting my time...

Though times for the few remaining big guys that advertise with Amazon... With 1st of April (no Joke) the commission for electronics is now a flat 4% (before it was tiered and up to 9%) add the one day cookie and you see why people in the internal Amazon Forum are ...

...or why else would MS suck up to those non existing pages...

Hmmm, sounds good, looks real, coming soon? more at TechCrunch

...and Vanessa Fox from Google too! GoodRoi, who hosts a regular show on Webmasterradio, had a couple of weeks ago Vanessa Fox from the Google Sitemap Team as guest. As almost always listeners are able to give feedback in the chat room that WMR.fm provides and are dealt with live on ...

Interesting Job Offer in Mountain View. Product Manager - Interactive TV - Mountain View In this role, you will provide leadership on product vision and execution of projects that enable using Google’s search and advertising technologies to enhance users’ Television viewing experience. ... You will identify key market trends that are shaping ...

Now i always were under the impression that MS and Google are fierce competitors, but what do i know, on Microsoft.com MS happily endorsed Google Deskbar, go figure...

I use Yahoo Domains allot, and usually i use my gmail account for the registration. Now every single time i register a doman with them, the confirmation mail from yahoo ends up in the spam folder of Gmail. I do mark every time that this particular mail is not spam, ...

Awesome news, this will become big! What can I do with PayPal Mobile? You can use your phone to send money to people and buy selected items (advertised with Text to Buy) anywhere within the U.S., Canada or the U.K. You can do both of those things by either sending a text ...

I find that rather amusing... Advertise on Jeremy Zawodny's blogYou're only steps away from advertising on this site, a valued member of Google's diverse network of partner websites. Wouldnd`t it be fair that MC would now start advertising with Yahoo ;)

I got contacted the other day by the director of Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP) at Stanford University. He asked me to submit their Website into all the quality directories. I rattled off the top ten from memory and agreed to send him an email later with ...

Well, it was about time, now (if you are based in the US because i can only see it via a US proxy) you can use Google for job search... more (including screenshots) here

Google and Nike have quietly launched Joga, an invitation-only social-network website for soccer fans and players, reports Phillipp Lenssen.