Yesterday I tweeted, “Just cause you spend 65k on a web site, doesn’t mean Google will like it” and referenced a Google Webmaster Help thread. Well, I was wrong! Well, not 100% wrong. People agreed with me, in fact, it…
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Google has been pushing the local maps Google Place tags. They have been giving them away for free for a month, but requiring users to enter their billing information and cancel within 30 days to not be charged. The thing…
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Google announced two new webmaster features. The first is related to rich snippets testing tool and the second is related to the breadcrumb URLs in Google. Google said they have made the rich snippets testing tool error reporting more robust….
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A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters complaining that Microsoft is cloaking their MSNBots again, soon to be named BingBot. It has been going on recently since early August and continues throughout today. Microsoft has had issues with cloaking their bots in…
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Have you ever stumbled upon a web site that was legally seized by the U.S. government? Sometimes, not always, they contain an image on the site that looks like this: Some folks at WebmasterWorld are saying that Google has been…
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If you visit Google New Zealand today, you will see a special animated logo. The logo is a buckyball or fullerence. A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube….
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This week’s video is a bit longer than most, but that is okay, next week there won’t be a video recap. Bing seemed to update their search ranking algorithm this week. Google may have tweaked their MayDay algorithm? Google added…
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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….
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We the people of the SEM community hold these truths to be self-evident that all search engines are not created equal. But while we knew the algos and layouts changed, how many people really thought about how that would change the heat maps? Turns out different search engines have very different eye-tracking patterns. Something to [...]
Sheara Goldenthal pinged me with a question yesterday about why the Google Keyword Tool shows different search volume data for the same keyword phrase, when she is logged in versus not logged into her AdWords account. It is a great…
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