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Google: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

When Google comes down on everyone else for not using “nofollow” on external links, one would think that they would make sure they they were in compliance themselves. However, there are some examples of Google’s failure to follow their own policy and, therefore, are themselves contributing to the pollution of the Google Index.
To rehash, […]

More Thoughts on Google Penalties

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Like many other blog owners, we offer space to advertisers. If our blog theme is related to the particular product they offer, they may want to be listed on our site. That is taking advantage of the power of the Internet.
Google, however, is concerned that web site owners will simply sell space (and […]

November Search Engine Market Share

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

There were no significant changes in Search Engine market share from October to November ‘07, according to Virginia based Internet information provider comScore. Google is still way out in front compared to the others and, although Yahoo! dropped and AOL/Time Warner grabbed a little more share, everyone basically kept their same positions in November.
Of […]

Paid Links, De-Indexing and Google

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

As has been mentioned, Google recently beat down millions of sites because they sold advertising …er… I mean links. Whatever you want to call it, Google doesn’t like it. They only want advertisers to buy links from them (through Adwords) and not spend any advertising dollars with anyone else. So, under the […]

Improve Google Results

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

If you have ever complained because of seeing poor quality web sites listed in Google, be aware that they are hiring actual humans to help improve the SERPs.
For example, you could apply for the currently open position of “Search Quality Evaluator” if you live in Mountain View or want to move there.
“We can’t tell how […]

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