Adotas mentions new AdSense unit sizes of 1×1 pixel and 2560×1920 pixels. What about people with bigger screens than that though?
How the heck did the Sydney Morning Herald find out about Google?s quantum-based spam filtering?
Philipp notices Google?s new room search prototype.
Ask introduces RhymeRank, which lets you find related queries that …
I was digging around in our IndexTools account today for the SEOmoz site and came across a nifty column that I had previously ignored called “browse rate”. It shows, based on the entry page the visitor came to the website on, how many pages (on average) they browsed. This metric is great for determining how effective your pages are at pulling people into the website.
Here’s some stats for SEOmoz:
You can see how folks who entered on the Web …
Leading off with a blog entry at the Ask.com blog, named What Should We Do? Ask.com asked the blog readers about launching something around April 1, does it make sense to do it, if it may be perceived as a…
WeeWorld launched their new website yesterday and it’s got a cool feature that’s virtually unused called “WeeChat”. Basically, you create your WeeMee and then you can go and chat live in this room with other WeeMees. I thought it would be cool if we all met up there for 10-15 minutes (or longer) around 2pm PST, 5pm EST. Anyone who can join in, please post below.
We can talk…
As many folks now know, Todd Malicoat (aka Stuntdubl) is leaving WeBuildPages. His plans for the future are uncertain, but one thing is for sure. Wherever Todd goes in the SEO or online marketing…
As we saw from early tests, Google has officially launched Google local business ads beta. They do not seem to be called GeoAds as we thought, but rather, Google local business ads, pretty straight forward. Google AdWords is introducing local…
Matt Cutts posted a blog entry he named Q & A thread: March 27, 2006, in where he answered a nice amount of questions posted in his blog, over the past couple weeks. The entry is well worth a read,…
The other day we reported the Yahoo! Search Index Update, today word comes via DigitalPoint Forums of a Yahoo! Image Search index update. That means, that Yahoo Image Search has a new stock of fresh images for you to search…
There have been some sporadic reports of the Dynamic Keyword Insertion feature within Google AdWords has not been working. There is a good thread where AdWordsAdvisor sums up the reports at WebmasterWorld. To be precise, there have been three threads…
As I reported at SEW Blog, Wall Street Journal’s principal technology columnist, Walter Mossberg wrote a raving article on Ask.com named Ask.Com’s New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals. This is huge for The Little Engine That Could. With…
So Matt’s comments yesterday (he didn’t pay me for a link, so I’m afraid I can’t give one out) set off a treasure trove of commentary about the use of paid links. Matt’s contention:
Yes, if you sell links, you should mark them with the nofollow tag. Not doing so can affect your reputation in Google.
Let me point out just a few of the reasons why this is a ridiculous statment
Google should not have any influence on how markup is controlled. They are completley out of their jurisdiction in making this request._
“Nofollow” was…
I’m wondering what people’s general opinion of the new Ask commercials are.
Do you find them enoyable? amusing? annoying?
Do you think they’ll effectively brand Ask.com in the minds of consumers?
Do you think they’ll increase traffic to the Ask domain?
Any idea what their media budget on those is? They seem fairly ubiquitous on primetime and cable channels.
My personal take is that they’re engaging enough to get people thinking about search and about Ask, but they don’t have the revolutionary push that would shift people’s mindsets away from Google. I…
Post offering tips on balancing link building and income generation via contextual ads.
I knew this day would come sometime….Stuntdubl’s moving on.
I really feel lucky to have Todd on my team for the time he was with us, and I know that whatever future he chooses that he’ll be a success. In my opinion Todd’s one of the very best SEO’s in the world, and beyond that he’s a […]
It is with anticipation and a bit of sadness that I will be leaving We Build Pages to pursue a new career. Unfortunately, the direction of the business is not inline with my personal and professional goals at this time, and therefore I feel I must move on. Now before you hooligans get […]
Just to stick with the relevant topic of the week - Paul Boutin wrote a colum yesterday covering his personal opinion of Web 2.0 now that, according to him, Newsweek has used the phrase without quotes for the first time in mainstream media.
Beyond that, publicists and self-promoters invoke Web 2.0 whenever they want to tag something as new, cool, and undiscovered—”This could be a big story for you, Paul!” That kind of hucksterism is what sends editors reaching for their red pens. Prior to Newsweek’s feature, the term “Web 2.0″ only appeared in national pub…
Most of you have probably read Matt Cutts’ answers to his Monday Q and A thread, but I like to document things for the future. I often come to my own site here to search for a phrase that I know I have discussed before, but can’t remember much about it. So, here’s a few […]
InformationWeek did a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and discovered that the Department of Justice sent subpoenas to 34 different companies:
The full list of companies subpoenaed by the Department of Justice includes: 711Net (Mayberry USA), American Family Online, AOL, ATT, Authentium, Bell South, Cable Vision, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable …
I started a thread over at our forums named Don’t Enable GoogleBot To Delete All Your Pages. In that thread I link to an other forum thread that shows how a Webmaster left open the delete button for GoogleBot to…
A WebmasterWorld thread documents that, at least two, people have seen a different number of results on the first page of the Google results, when compared to the second page of results. For example, you search on any keyword phrase…
As I covered a few days ago at SEW Blog, Yahoo has updated their search toolbars for IE and for FireFox. The big change is tabbed browsing for IE and adding a button to bookmark pages to del.icio.us, which is…
That is the question at a DigitalPoint Forum thread named Google April Fools 2006: Guesses? In that past, we covered a handful of search related April Fools Day pranks. The first one we thought was what is now known as…
This can be completely false and made up but I thought it was weird enough to report here. A DigitalPoint Forum thread named Mysterious GMail Image - Girl Sticking Out Tongue! shows a link to a comment at a particular…
Post suggesting how important it is to create a reliable reference page on your own site about each of your most important commercial products.
TrafficPowerSucks.com compiles evidence to show their claims about Traffic Power were accurate. I got to snag the 196 page report from Pacer. If you ever want to use a document to show people what happens when you hire a bad SEO partner this document is the one!