SEO For Real

What I am about to show you is nothing new, it happens all the time, but today is starting out to be a slow day, so I thought I post on it. I DigitalPoint member conducted a search on the…

There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld, where the Google AdSenseAdvisor posts how geo-targeting works with Google’s contextual ad program, Google AdSense. Geotargeting is based on the IP address of your users. So, say one page of your site is…

A Cre8asite Forum thread asks SEO training- is it worthwhile? There are many ways to train oneself to become an SEO, they include; Seminars Conferences School Books Forums Friends Trial & Error A great way to begin is to pick…

Google Pages does not allow you to currently place Google AdSense ads on your pages. A WebmasterWorld thread has a reply from AdSenseAdvisor stating that AdSense is currently not supported on Google Pages. AdSenseAdvisor does say that Google hopes “to…

Sometimes you may notice a URL listed in the search results page that may look like www.domain.com/?tracking=5 or something like that. You normally do not want to see your pages with URLs listed in the search indexes like that. It…

The folks over at Yahoo! graciously invited me to write a guest blog entry at the YPN Blog. In my guest post, I wrote about how one can use discussion forums to optimize their Yahoo Publisher Network campaigns. Publishers sharing…

It appears that a major link network named Link Vault has been banned from Google. Conducting a search on www.link-vault.com brings up no results. Doing a site command brings up one result. Other data centers have the link-vault.com domain listed…

Normally, I would not point to a thread that discusses rumors that I know are misguided. But at a thread at WebmasterWorld the official AdWordsAdvisor from Google replies to the speculation that Google uses data from Google Analytics (conversion data)…

There has been recent interest in how a site can be included into Google News. Ben covered a thread at DigitalPoint Forums a few weeks ago on the topic. I thought I would revisit it with my own personal experience…

It appears that a few searchers at Google.com are noticing a new flavor of expandable results. In the past, Google tested expanding results with arrows that were like –> when collapsed and downwards when expanded. Now Google is testing using…

It appears from this WebmasterWorld thread that the most amount of characters you can have in your robots.txt file is 5,000. Google Sitemaps reports back an error to those who have more than 5,000 characters, stating; Must be at most…

A WebmasterWorld thread has been tracking the various updated at some of Google data centers since June 5th. Over the weekend, many are reporting that the update has set many “sandboxed” sites free. The Google results are still moving around…

Reports come from WebmasterWorld that web pages are being dropped from the Yahoo! Search index. What some people are noticing for some domains, a site: command search bring up only the URL of the homepage and/or just the URLs of…

Mikkel deMib Svendsen in a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Subdomain Spamming Good or Bad? writes that; Subdomains work very well at the moment. No doubt about that. I can take aprominent, old, domain, set up a brand…

Should search engines introduce a tag of some sort that enables you to tell the spider not to index and not to use the content for ranking or relevancy purposes? Similar to the nofollow attribute for not counting links, and…

Remember when we were beta testing Google Payments? I have three different, detailed write ups with step by step screen captures of the whole process documented. You can read them at: Accepted by Google Base to Sell Through Google Payments…

A CNN Money article reports that eBay is launching a contextual ad program this week named eBay AdContext. eBay’s system differs from existing pay-per-click advertising systems offered by Google and rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. by linking only to…

Google posted at the AdSense blog that they are hiring a AdSense Product Specialist. Part of the job description reads; - Provide verbal and written feedback to Product Managers on new and existing products, representing the AdSense Online team and…

Reports come from WebmasterWorld that trying to access the Yahoo! Search Marketing DTC is futile. The reports of the downtime began this morning at 5:30am and now at 8:10am (EST), it is still inaccessible. Yahoo! Search Marketing advertisers are frustrated…

The first ever SES Latino will be hosted at the InterContinental Hotel in Miami Florida. The face behind this show is Nacho Hernandez from iHispanic Marketing, who has been working incredibly hard to promote and educate the Latino/Hispanic search engine…

A new member posted a thread promoting his SEO Comics at our forums. I personally find them funny and wanted to share them with you. Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums….

Last night the MSN Search folks at Microsoft adCenter sent out an announcement about new features coming along. The features are mostly reporting in nature and include; A new Reports page user interface Create a New Report tab Recent Reports…

Search Engine Watch Forums is two years old as of yesterday, June 8th, 2006. Search Engine Watch Forums intitally launched on June 8th, 2004 and made a huge splash. The post I have was dated on June 2nd but the…

Spotted via DigitalPoint Forums, a search result at MSN UK. Do a search on web design uk at search.msn.co.uk. The first result is; Yes, the URL is cut off, the full URL looks like; http://www.velnet.co.uk/domain-names.html/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/web-design/ Let’s count the number of…

Danny Sullivan has the detailed write up on French Lawsuit Over Google Book Search. Basically, a French publishing group is to sue Google for publishing book excerpts online without permission. But is it without permission? The group’s web site,…