More Thoughts on Google Penalties
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Like 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, 2008There 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, 2007As 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, 2007If 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 [...]
Google Owns SEO Company
Saturday, December 8th, 2007I was somewhat surprised at what I read when I came across a post by Scott Buresh on Search Engine Guide. The title is A Slippery Slope: Google Owns a Search Engine Optimization Company.
“What does this mean for those hiring other companies and looking for great search engine placement? We will just have to [...]
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