The Google Inside Adwords blog posts a link to a paper (pdf) that says that third-party auditing firms are misreporting click fraud, mainly in the form of fictitious clicks (which are reported as fraudulent, but are never recorded or charged as ad clicks by Google). They specifically name three firms - AdWatcher, ClickFacts, and […]
Yahoo! just announced on their blog that you can now easily create your own niche search engine, using a new tool called the Yahoo! Search Builder. You can seed the search engine with sites you trust, and customize the look and feel of both the search box and search results page. Read all […]
Google Research has announced that they will share (for an undisclosed fee) a trillion keywords with everyone. They say:
We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,653,070 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 […]
As I recently mentioned, Matt Cutts took some webmaster questions, and has now answered them via video. His post is here, with links leading to the videos themselves.
Nothing ground-breaking in the videos, especially for experienced SEOs, but it is always a good idea to check in on what Matt has to say, even about […]
Yahoo! announced that they have implemented a new crawler, which will result in using less of our sites’ bandwidth. In addition, this new crawler means that you may see more or less pages in the index, and a shuffling of rankings as well. You can send feedback on observations or get technical support […]
SearchEngineWatch reports on a leak of a possible new version of Google Finance coming out, but the interesting bit is the url that was discovered: http://0.frontend-live.sfe.scrooge.hs.borg.google.com/finance
Scrooge and Borg all in one url. Bah humbug, you will all be assimilated. Can’t you just envision Scrooge all borg’d out calculating the latest profits?
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I don’t often blog about new products that the search engines come out with, but I think this one is worth it. Google labs now has accessible web search for the visually challenged. The Google blog describes it as: “In addition to finding the most relevant results as measured by Google’s search algorithms, […]
Barry points out that you should visit Ask.com today, and I agree. That’s pretty spectacular!
And speaking of Ask, they’ve been making some other bold moves lately. They are one of the sponsors of NBC’s new reality tv show, Treasure Hunters (throwing out a gratuitous link to a friend’s Treasure Hunters forum here).
Ask is […]
This morning I had 2 emails in my inbox from "SEO Companies" telling me that they can’t find webuildpages.com in the search engines and that I can get a Free evaluation from them to show me what needs to be done, and how their services can help me. This is nothing new, I’m know everyone […]
So I just bought a domain from someone who had it both registered and hosted with register.com…and in trying to keep things as much as they had been, I opened up an account with register.com to move the domain into my register.com account.
I ended up running into a problem and I had to call […]
Help!
I’m trying to come up with a list of possible webpages that people store their stats on…so say if I were to find a site, and I wanted to know the site’s traffic I could search for pages like:
www.theirsite.com/stats/
Anyone know of common places people store their stats on, where if you knew the url […]
Get your own Official Seal - Takes less than 1 minute.
Lee’s del.icio.us showed me this Cool Official Seal Generator, where in 1 minute I had created this seal.
Look out Bruce…I just might start offering "Jim’s SEO Code of Ethics" next (You’ll have to be slightly grey to get Jim’s seal) …..hehe….hey…I can’t laugh too much…1750 people […]
I’m still going through the questions asked by people in my "Ask Jim" post. Here’s a bunch thrown together.
Mikko asks,
“Want to know what I think about link buying?”
Yes I do!
Mikko, the best links bought are ones that are under the radar (read this post).
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Sohaib ask about 301 redirects and why none of his pages are […]
In my "Ask Jim" post there are some I can answer rather quicky, so in this post I’ll answer 3 of those questions. These are all Link related questions.
Question 3, Peter simply asks:
Content, or Links?
I’d have to say both. and I’ll add - Equally both. Often in my past I used to say "90% links"…but […]
Choosing Keywords - It’s all about who’s in the top 10.
In response to the second question on my "Ask Jim" blog post, Michael asks:
When considering keywords, does the order of the keywords matter to the search engines? If so… How do they matter? Should I pick an order and concentrate on that, or treat different […]
In response to my "Ask Jim" post, I’ll start at the top.
Graywolf asks:
What’s the biggest SEO mistake you made (that you can talk about).
What’s one piece of SEO advice you wish you could travel back in time and tell yourself 3 years ago.
I’ll start with the "SEO Mistakes"…hum…where should I start….I’ll freely admit that […]
I finally got around to adding a new poll.
It seems like every week there’s a new SEO Podcast show starting up (The latest one is "The Search Pulse" with men of Search Engine Roundtable).
There’s a great list of several SEO podcasts on WebmasterRadio.fm if you’re ever looking for some. Some of the very best minds […]
Gurtie over at Gray Hat Search Engine News looks to be the first to get the scoop and report on the new Link Descriptor Tags (the "No-Follow" being the first Link Descriptor Tags).
It appears that these new tags will be used by Google, Yahoo, and Ask (MSN was having some issue at the moment).
To quote […]
Robert Scoble is visiting the plex tomorrow (okay, today at this point. I lost this post and need to get the Wordpress autosave functionality going). What should I ask Robert?
Aha, looks like he’s got a question for me about the Windows Live Writer blog. Without doing any actual debugging (I’m …
Okay, here’s a question. I did the search [congoo] recently and didn’t get the home page of Congoo–why not? If you view the source of http://www.congoo.com/, it turns out that they have a noindex meta tag:
Okay, so Congoo apparently doesn’t want their root page to show …
Okay, people always ask me about weather updates and what’s going on with data centers at any given moment. I recorded this summary last week as an overview of the various software infrastructure changes that have happened this year, and some meta-insights about data center watching.
Session 15: Data center comments
A …
Today, Danny Sullivan announced that he’s leaving the popular searchenginewatch.com site that he built and the Search Engine Strategies series of conferences that he ramped up. For the search industry, this is a nine on the Richter scale and has the potential to shake the whole industry for a few …
I recorded this last week and I’m just now getting around to pushing it live. If you didn’t get to attend Search Engine Strategies San Jose, I’ll mention some of the stuff I saw.
Session 14: Recap of SES San Jose 2006:
A short review of news from SES San Jose, and …
Some people have noticed that Yahoo!’s news search no longer shows blogsearch results alongside it. Normally I’d assume that if the blog search in News results disappeared, it meant one of two things: 1) Blog search was about to roll out as a separate product, or 2) maybe Yahoo! acquired …
Okay SEOs, what can you learn from my previous post about changing the default printer for Firefox on Linux? In the last week someone wrote and said “I want you to talk about SEO, and don’t give me any of that crap about good content.” I’m going to beg to …