Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Google has made it very easy to add a sitemap to their Google Sitemaps program. All you need to know is a few basics about their XML protocol which is laid out here.
I was able to setup some rather minimalist Sitemaps which seem to have done the ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
I've seen a lot of strange Google updates this year and this latest one is very weird. On Monday, a lot of new traffic came in, and now on a few select websites I see traffic way down. This is now completely typical to me. You can ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
These Japanese researchers have come up with something interesting concerning how to determine proper names in Google SERPs.
The software tool, developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan, picks apart the results of a search engine query, identifying unique identities within these results. For example, it can tell ...
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
If you haven't heard the news yet, there's some pretty big news you should read concerning changes made at Google.
Here's where you can find the information:
Google explains the changes - A word on quality - read this for overview of changes
Landing Page Quality Update - explains the ins and outs
Affiliate ...
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
I know it can change in minutes, but the results have been stable for a few days. I'm still noticing the strange blinking on and off Pagerank for my one site, but I've decided to ignore it. Odd occurences are nothing new in Google.
Lately my main ...
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Another strange Google update/whatever. This time I see a perfectly great blog of mine get completely wiped out. All backlinks to Blog Republic have been wiped out in Google, despite the fact that Yahoo shows 66,000 of them. The site has also been reduced to a PR ...
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
I've noticed for quite some time that Google is placing tons of forums posts made on Vbulletin software into their supplemantal search index. Undoubtedly Vbulletin does create a lot of duplicate content, by default, but even on websites where they use robots.txt exclusions to limit Google's crawling, the trouble ...
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
It's been a few weeks in the making, but it looks like the most recent Google backlink and PR update has settled in. This one took a few weeks to run its' course, and it has show itself to make quite a few changes in SERPS.
I'd say the index ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
It's true, despite the number of times that people "in the know" have said "PR doesn't matter anymore", it doesn't really stop anyone's fascination with the Little Green Bar. PageRank has been one of the greatest accomplishments in another form of PR (Public Relations) in the last 10 years. ...
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
The Supplemental Index is enough to drive any webmaster nuts, even one who was partially sane when she started. And now Google's own webmasters needs to figure their way out of Supplemental Hell. A view from the Google site command shows Google having a huge number of ...
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