Search Engine Watch Forums Moderator, Discovery, posted an interesting new thread named Google POPS off. He says that he tested pop offs, ads that pop up after you exist a site, and realized a 8% increase in conversions. However, Google…
Is anyone seeing any new Google behavior since the Big Daddy update?Any observations or trends that you can share - even if it is nothing more than a little data to report without a researched explanation?I am seeing slow “rankings creep” on some of my sites. This is slow upwards movement on entire suites of keywords that I can’t contribute to any onpage/onsite changes that I have made or any linkage changes that are happening offsite. This is broader and more systematic than the typical flux. I’ve seen two of these moves each impacting multiple broad groups of keywords across my sites since the BD rollout. Perhaps it is pre-BD link j…
Post about how many people are moving search spamming activites away from their site in favor of promoting pages on other well trusted sites.
Brett Tabke has split out a thread that has been getting a lot of attention named Pages dropping out of the index. GoogleGuy replied to that thread stating; One thing to bear in mind is that Bigdaddy will have different…
After Google announced the new Google Sitemaps features, a bug became visible in the tool. In fact, I noticed the bug when it was first being presented at SES yesterday, but the presenter was quick to cover it up. The…
Many WebmasterWorld members are reporting that Google has been displaying the same ad and same creative more than once on the same search results page at Google.com. The, what seems to be, “bug” has been reported to Google, no confirmation…
The past two days, as many as you know, I have been covered SES Toronto. The main takeaways from the conference, at least in terms of new items, includes; (1) Google launches new Sitemaps with a spam feature. (2) The…
Leslie Walker, who I spoke to by phone while in Toronto, has a relatively good article on the front page of the Technology section in the Washington Post - How to Juice Up a Site’s Rank. The story is also online, but you need to register (it’s free, though). A few excerpts:
If your Web site isn’t getting the attention it deserves on the Internet, it may be running low on Google juice.
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Ok. Here comes a rant. I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO USE FORM INJECTION / SPAM!!!Feels a lot better… What kicked me ranting was that I’m sick and tired of seeing an ever growing flow “Feedback Spam” on my websites. I know, there are several scripts for ASP/.NET/PHP/JSP/Perl to tackle this issue, and yes I use them very effectively to flag spammy messages before their arrival to my desktop. Let’s take an example from a spam message (this arrived about 15 minutes ago and ended directly to trash as Spam): …
Post about my branded SERP looking fairly well from top to bottom.
Post about my branded SERP looking fairly well from top to bottom.
Sorry, I’m late on the draw on this one, but it’s been a busy day for me. Just in case you haven’t already heard, Matt Cutts announced that some webmasters who use Google sitemaps may get notified of certain penalties they are receiving on their sites.
If you are a big time black hat spammer, […]
If you don?t want to read the full post, the executive summary is that Google?s Webspam team is working with our Sitemaps team to alert some (but not all) site owners of penalties for their site. In my world (webmasters), this is both a Big Deal and a Good Thing, …
I’ll be talking with Greg GoodROI Niland tomorrow on Good Karma about various topics including the pros and cons of using clickstream data in search engine algorithms, speculation on how it may be used and a slew of other totally speculative topics that I probably have minimal expertise to comment on but will anyways. […]
I was over perusing on Lee’s marketing blog when I noticed a post Thomas had done on Clicktracks appetizer. I’m a big fan of clicktracks mainly because the people behind it rock, they have excellent support and have made analytics extremly usable and yet still highly informational. Best of all they listen to […]
Chris Sherman moderates this session. Mikkel deMib Svendsen is up first, sporting his bright red suit. He explains that search engines want your content. SEO Basics; indexing, ranking, traffic, actions. With dynamic sites, the problems are normally with indexing the…
With conversions being all the rage for web site owners, first thoughts are more likely on attracting first-time visitors and ways of converting this traffic into sales. However, they are not the only target group to be considered. Ammon Johns…
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, SearchEngineWatch.com Google Sitemaps Launches New Features Shiva Shivakumar from Google to talk about Google Sitemaps new launch. A live demo of site maps new features. He logged into his account and showed the “my sites”…
I’m proud to welcome Guillaume Bouchard to our blogging team at SEOmoz. Guillaume and I have communicated a few times over email, but after meeting him at the conference, I knew he was a guy who “gets it”. In the search marketing field, Guillaume may be relatively unknown, but he’s one of French-speaking Canada’s foremost SEOs. Guillaume deals with tough issues in North America that many of us don’t see on a regular basis. I’m looking forward to hearing from him on issues like Internet adoption in Quebec, multi-language issues, marketing to a local and highly uniqe audience and dealing with clients and searchers who d…
Moderated by Andrew Goodman… Kevin Lee is first up and he shows the Google Golden Triangle, eye tracking study heat map. He explains that targeting will enable you to make a more profitable sale. Targeting brings us one step closer…
Word from Cline at WebmasterWorld that if you are using both Find and Edit Max CPCs Tool and Position Preference is enabled, the Edit Max CPCs Tool will not update your bids. He noticed this when the tool was “failing…
Yesterday, I reported at Search Engine Watch blog that Google added new street level details and driving directions to its European Google Maps. You can see it in action by zooming into London. You can get the idea of a…
Yesterday morning, a WebmasterWorld member reported on a Google bug, where Google would append ‘?sa=X’ on some links. Appending that extra snippet lead to a page that was not existent on the server it referred the page to, hence taking…
There is a basic, but interesting thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Does Title Tag Need To Come First? The question is more detail is, does the title tag within the HTML code of a page, need to come…
Reports come from Cre8asite Forums that Google Blog Search has added a “Search the Web” button next to “Search Blogs.” Prior, there was only, “Search Blogs” but within the past week or so, Google reportedly added the “Search the Web”…