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 …
A few weeks ago, Barry pointed out a thread on SearchEngineWatch forums. The thread was titled Top Ten Ways SEM Companies Bend The Truth To Win Business and somebody suggested this as a fib:
We share a deep rapport with industry experts such as Danny Sullivan, Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer.
It’s …
At this point, I think Google’s webmaster console offers enough useful features that every site owner should try it on a site. If you haven’t checked out Google’s webmaster tools recently, I’d highly recommend taking another look, especially for the brand new “pick www vs. non-www” feature.
Session 13: Google Webmaster …
In this video, I give some tips to suck the marrow from SES San Jose (e.g. sit in the back of the room, and then if someone is boring, you can duck out to try out one of the other three sessions going on at the same time). I also …
Heh. I wrote this hugely long post, so I pulled a Googler aside and asked ?Dan, what do you think of this post?? And after a few helpful comments he said something like, ?And, um, you may want to include a paragraph of understandable English at the top.?
Fair …
I?ve had some time to mull over what I saw at Google Press Day. Let?s review the products that were made available:
- Google Co-op. See below for the review.
- Google Trends. Pretty much everyone can see the appeal of this in a few seconds, and it?s fun to play with. …
The rel=?nofollow? attribute is an easy way for a website to tell search engines that the website can?t or doesn?t want to vouch for a link. The best-known use for nofollow is blog comment spam, but the mechanism is completely general. Nofollow is recommended anywhere that links can?t be vouched …
Kevin Delaney over at the Wall Street Journal has a short article about a recent SiteAdvisor study of potentially malicious web sites. According to the article, SiteAdvisor claims that about 2% of regular web sites may expose surfers to ?risks or nuisances,? while the number for search results is about …
For months, a post by Tom Hespos and a related post has rolled around in my head. In my mind, having a someone doing engineering communication (reading blogs, participating in forums, answering questions at conferences or online) has helped Google to get good feedback, and hopefully I?ve been able to …
Steve Rubel is having a blast, and Philipp shows some fun examples and his readers find more.
Personally, I enjoy doing things like [lake tahoe]:
Sure, you see a spike in the winter-time (in purple), but check out the increase of searches in the summer (in green). I guess people want to …
There?s been a spate of search people trying out AdWords. First there was Shoemoney, then Shoemoney pulled DaveN into it. Then a day or so ago I read that Battelle is trying AdWords. And I thought: ?Crap. I have to write that review.?
What review? The review of Winning Results with …
What a day. Thoughts:
- I?ll post more on Google Co-op and Google Trends in the next few days.
- One of the things that strikes me about Google Co-op is that it?s open; many vertical searches are walled gardens, but Co-op is more of an open garden that anyone can contribute …
(quick post. I?m doing the write fast thing to get me back in the blogging habit.)
I had some wonderful teachers in high school. One of them, my English teacher, used the acronym MEGO to stand for My Eyes Glaze Over. MEGO applies to something so technical that most people don?t …
I?m sitting in the back of Google?s cafeteria, which today has been repurposed for what (to me) looks like a very large amount of journalists. Right now, Elliot Schrage is welcoming folks. He just mentioned that the day is being webcast, so I?m going to assume it?s okay to blog …
Oh, and speaking of DaveN, someone mentioned SEOps to me, so I headed over there to see if there was anything new. Nope, no posts in over a month. But someone was signing his page with pill links:
Now those links are gone, but different spam links are there. Who would …
Danny Sullivan is going to be out in California next week, so he?s agonna stop by the Googleplex and say hello. I believe we?re going to do a long edition of the Daily SearchCast. Although I think Detlev may do the official SearchCast that morning, so a better title might …
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, …
Several people have noticed content from other Google bots showing up in our main web index, and are wondering? why/how does that happen? Last week I was at WebmasterWorld Boston and I talked about this issue there, but I?d like to do a blog post about Google?s crawl caching proxy, …
I almost made it. I got through one day of a three day conference, and I was still blogging, caught up on email, and I?d checked my RSS feeds. Then on the second day, I spoke on three panels, stayed up talking SEO until 3:30, and it all crashed down. …