1 Comment This is link week at the official Google Webmaster blog. Their most recent post, shortly after 11:00 PM PDT, reinforced their top-level domain preference against newer and cheaper options. Specifically, one of their graphics uses a .biz domain to represent the “spammy” site. The reason for this is because .biz and similar new extensions like [...]
No comments Google Blogoscoped has a screen shot of a new Google feature that allows users to skip flash intro pages. This is cool because flash intro pages are useless time wasting pieces of crap. The point of an intro page is to mesmerize website visitors with a flashy cover page so they become impressed with your [...]
2 Comments This obscure bot popped up on my radar earlier this month. The complete user-agent string is PRCrawler/Nutch-0.9 (data mining development project; crawler@projectrialto.com) The description provided in the string contains several clues that this bot is a waste of my bandwidth. First, Nutch is an open source search engine written in Java. ‘Data mining’ is not [...]
No comments Strategies can not be templated. There is no substitute, no automated gimmick that can replicate what can be achieved by people that share a comfortable and open line of communication. A local luxury-used outfit approached me two weeks ago because they were unsatisified with their website’s page 4 rankings. Today they are front-paging for half [...]
No comments Here’s a screen shot of the Search Engines Goal Conversion tab on Google Analytics for a classifieds site I’ve been marketing since December 2006. The goal Conducted Search is reached when a visitor to the site searches the vehicles for sale database. The percentages represent the amount of traffic from each search engine that searched for [...]
No comments The page has clearly been edited since this has gone public, but this is silly. A search engine cloaking pages to rank better in search engines. What gives? So, they are clearly serving different content to their users and to the search engines. The pages they’re serving to the bots are heavily keyword stuffed. I [...]
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