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- January 2007
Update On Google Indexing & Ranking Issues
Google's Matt Cutts has issued a weather report on Google indexing and ranking issues, which I'll get into below. In addition, I'll recap a number of Google concerns that I've noted over the past two or three weeks. I've been saving these to follow up on when I'm out at Google later this month. I'm meeting up with Matt and others from the search quality team in Mountain View, then with Vanessa Fox and others from Google Webmaster Central up in the Kirkland / Seattle office. So expect to hear back. And if you've got things you'd like me to... - Google gives Kansas Education Service Center the finger too, Googling Google
- Google irks Web site owners over malware alerts, InfoWorld
- More Rounds In
The "Is SEO Overrated" Debate
The "Is SEO Overrated Or Rocket Science" debate continues. Sigh. OK, I give up. I guess we have to have this every two or three years. All the arguments I'm reading, I've read (or made before). But maybe that's healthy in an industry where you always have new people coming in. I'll give you the rundown on the latest leaders that are weighing in. And yes, it will be a kick-butt debate I'm also going to do for our first Search Marketing Expo this June. Kevin, Todd, Greg, Mike, Jeremy: I'll be coming for you and others! For now, let's... - The Social Side
Of Trustrank
A newly published patent application from Yahoo, Using community annotations as anchortext, provides a hint at some of the research and work that Yahoo is doing to incorporate user created tags, annotations, bookmarks, and social profiles into the way that they index and organize information, and rank that information. Danny asked me if I would mention a recent SEO by the Sea post here, where I went into some depth on the processes described in that document. It is at Social Trustrank and User Annotations as Anchor Text. One of the most interesting aspects the patent covers is how trustrank... - The Robot Ate My Web Page…, Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
- Search Engine
Land: Top Stories & Stats, Jan. 10, 2007
Back again with a daily stats and traffic review for Search Engine Land. When I did the first one yesterday, I warned this wouldn't be a daily activity. But we had another record traffic day, including making the Delicious home page. That's going to make for some nice comparison to Digg traffic for a future post. In the meantime, here's are the top stories yesterday on Search Engine Land and what drove traffic to them, as well as some tips on Google Analytics and analytics from FeedBurner.... - Zuula Meta
Search Engine
Zuula is a multi/meta search engine that I noticed the other day. It provides access to search engines in the areas of Web, News, Images, Blogs and Jobs. It takes results from various different engines in each category, but mainly uses Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN. It works in a similar fashion to engines such as TurboScout, which is to say that it displays results from one search engine, searchers click on another engine tab and it displays results from that one and so on. It has a 'recent search' function, a few advanced search features (such as limiting to... - A Search Engine
For Geriatrics
Attention all you over-50 types: The folks behind new search engine Cranky.com think they've got just what you need to avoid search rage and information overload. The new service, which is really a select directory of 5,000 sites most popular among users 45 and older, simplifies search results by only presenting you four links and specially created annotations, along with ads served by partner Ask.com. Like many new search services cropping up these days, there's also a social component, with "member" ratings and reviews. More coverage at CNN's Tired of Google and Yahoo? Try Cranky.com, the AP's New Search Engine... - The SEM Search Engine, Out Of My Gord
- Top Google Custom Search Engines, Google Blogoscoped
- ShoeMoney Search Engine Ranking Script Remastered, ShoeMoney
- UPDATE on Cisco's iPhone Trademark, Official Cisco Blog
- Free Advertising on TechCrunch with MyBlogLog Flaw, Solo SEO
- MyBlogLog Got Spammed (and so did we), TechCrunch
- Google tops brand-popularity poll, ZDNet UK
- Weird Google AdWords Layout, Google Blogoscoped
- Neil Gaiman’s son coming to Google, Matt Cutts
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Great points Danny.
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January 15, 2007 12:53 PM
Posted on January 15, 2007 12:53