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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2009

Posted: November 30th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google Caffeine Index Now on a Google Data Center: 209.85.225.103

Posted: November 30th, 2009, 2:55pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Friday, I reported that there was a possible Google update taking place. Truth be told, it was actually webmasters hitting on the data center which showed the Google Caffeine results.

Matt Cutts of Google confirmed that Caffeine was going live on 209.85.225.103, at least for 50% of the users hitting that data center. He also said that I was totally off in reporting that Google is doing a major update - they are not. What people are seeing is the Caffeine results on that single data center.

Google did tell us that they would not fully launch Caffeine until after the holiday season. In fact, they promised to launch Caffeine on a single data center, and this is what they did.

So the update is not a full update, just a Caffeine update on a single Google data center that should not have a huge impact on online retailers during this holiday season.

I should clarify that my post on Friday did actually say that this can be that Caffeine was live on a single data center and those reporting the update was indeed only looking at the data center. In any event, Caffeine is now live on that single data center (at least 50% of the time), so check it out at 209.85.225.103.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums, Google Webmaster Help and WebmasterWorld.

Google Patent on Anchor Based Google Sitelinks

Posted: November 30th, 2009, 2:50pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

If you are a patent junky, then you may like this relatively new one. A patent application submitted November 19th by Google named artificial anchor for a document may shed some light on the jump down Google snippets or anchor based Google Sitelinks we have seen creep into the Google search results in August and September.

As always, Bill Slawski converts the patent into English for all of us to read. But here is the abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for linking to an intra-document portion of a target document includes receiving an address for a target document identified by a search engine in response to a query, the target document including query-relevant text that identifies an intra-document portion of the target document, the intra-document portion including the query relevant text. An artificial anchor is generated, the artificial anchor corresponding to the intra-document portion. The artificial anchor is appended the address.

Currently, I am way too tired to look into this right now, so just hit the thread at WebmasterWorld to dig deeper.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 27, 2009

Posted: November 28th, 2009, 12:00am CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

There seems to be a major Google update going on, some suspect it is Caffeine related while others do not. Google said comment spam can hurt you bad. Rich snippets are now showing in other Google properties, such as Google UK and Canada. Don't waste your time with a banned domain. Bing and News Corp try to team up to bait Google on indexing their content. Is Bing now handling 301 redirects properly? If you are banned in AdWords, you likely will never be unbanned. Google opened product ads to all U.S. advertisers and then showed off all their new ad styles. Google Maps bug removed the local pack for web design like searches. Google AdSense bug showed weird HTML characters in the ads. Google is testing related search results in the top navigation bar. The Michelle Obama racist image reappeared and Google could not remove it, so they placed an ad as to why not. Finally, we posted all the Thanksgiving logos from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Dogpile and others - so check it out. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Google Bug Removes Web Designers in Local Pack

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Google AdSense Bug Displaying Weird Characters in Ads

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Thanksgiving Greetings 2009 From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Search Industry

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 27, 2009

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Major Google Search Thanksgiving '09 Update? Caffeine Related?

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 3:11pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google PageRankSERP Updates

Update: Matt Cutts from Google confirmed that Caffeine is live 50% of the time in the 209.85.225.103 data center. See below for more info.

There are several threads reporting major changes in the Google search results, starting yesterday. We have threads at DigitalPoint Forums, Google Webmaster Help and an updated WebmasterWorld thread.

In short, people are noticing major changes in the search results. Some believe it is a Caffeine index rolling into their search results. Some believe it is just a normal update and not Caffeine related. We do know that Matt Cutts promised not to roll out Caffeine until after the holidays and a roll out at this time would be the worst possible time for online retailers (unless you rank very well in Caffeine.

We also know Google is eventually rolling out Caffeine to a single data center, which can be why many people are noting an update. But again, it might be that these folks are on this single data center or that this is not a Caffeine update. I certainly hope this was not a mistake and Google released the Caffeine update prematurely.

The data center people are talking about now is 209.85.225.103.

People are saying that their traffic is down because of it, but some are also noting that it is/was Thanksgiving yesterday, which can result in people not being on their computers searching Google - thus less traffic from Google.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums, Google Webmaster Help and an updated WebmasterWorld.

Update from Matt Cutts:

My plane landed and I had time to check. 209.85.225.103 as an IP address currently hits the Caffeine data center about 50% of the time, so that's probably what the person at DP was seeing.
I think it's really risky to take a few threads and turn that into a "major Google update." For example, one of the links you pointed to was asking about the rankings for their site webtlk.com. Given links like http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:iwkj8P8xoSEJ:teqtonik.com/+http://teqtonik.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a talking about data recovery and pointing to that site, I'm guessing that Google just got better at determining how much weight should be given to links to that site.

So 209.85.225.103 does hit the Caffeine data center more often than other IP addresses, but it's always been the plan that Caffeine would roll out at one data center (no more data centers will get Caffeine until at least January).

But I would avoid generalizing, at least as going by the one report that mentioned a specific site that I looked into. Of course, on a lot of the webmaster forums you can't tell what site they're talking about, so it's hard to do any debugging on what might have happened to individual sites there.

Google Maps Bug Disables Searching My Maps for User Created Content

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 3:04pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A Google Maps Help thread has confirmed reports that searching for user generated content via My Maps seems to no longer be returning results.

ehg, a helpful Google Maps forum member helped debug this. He said, all of my maps of MyMaps created until 20 Oct 2009 are still to search. Here a sample map "GRZG" which is still to search [1] when searching "related maps" and "GRZG". Here searching for a user- created content ("ghghgh5656") of the same map [2] I created the map 10 Oct 2009. And here a search for the last map I can search & find (created 20 Oct 2009 - the second map is a copy of the first one I created at this date) [3].

Googler, Brian B, said, "I'm looking into this and will give an update here. Thanks for escalating."

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

More on How Google News SEO Works

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 2:59pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Google News SEO is a fun topic for me because we are included in Google News. Two recent interviews were published on how Google News ranks articles and yes, it is very different from rankings in Google Web Search.

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land and Eric Enge at Stone Temple both ask the tough questions with Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager for Google News.

I suggest reading those interviews and then joining the WebmasterWorld discussion on the topic. Some really good analysis is going on there on these interviews.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Tracking Phones & Devices For Traffic Data: Crowdsouring Traffic

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 2:43pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

This is old news, back in August Google told us they are now crowdsourcing traffic data in order to provide better and more accurate traffic reports on Google Maps. Let me quote Google:

When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you're moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. We continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers.

Yep, Google Navigation for Android 1.6 or 2.0 I am sure does this as well.

Why do I bring this up now? Well, a Google Maps Help thread has one Google Maps user asking how Google has traffic data for local streets? He said, "Just curious as to how google maps aggregates the data for traffic conditions of local surface streets, not freeways. Is it through the sensors in the streetlights?"

Useful, but a tad scary. I tested it on some of my local roads that I know are always congested and it does indeed work.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Google: Comment Spam Can Hurt Your Site's Ranking

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 2:33pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Spam

Google wrote a blog post named Hard facts about comment spam. I'll sum it up for you quickly. If you do not protect your site against comment spam, Google will trust your site less and it can ultimately hurt your rankings.

Most blogs these days have automatic comment spam solutions, but you need to make sure your blog is handling it correctly. I check comment spam here several times a day. Although most gets caught, some leaks through and I need to take care of them manually. Yes, I have them all nofollowed anyway, but comment spam looks bad and it distracts from the content on this site. I am more concerned with it distracting from the content here then Google trusting me less - too be honest. But most bloggers are more concerned with Google trust over reader trust, so either way, this is something you need to take care of.

How does this hurt your rankings? Well, if Google trusts the links on your site less, then your internal linking power dwindles down and you rank lower.

Google offers these tips:

Disallow anonymous posting.
Use CAPTCHAs and other methods to prevent automated comment spamming.
Turn on comment moderation.
Use the "nofollow" attribute for links in the comment field.
Disallow hyperlinks in comments.
Block comment pages using robots.txt or meta tags.

There is a lot of discussion around this blog post at Google. Some seem surprised by this, while others do not.

Forum discussion at Digital Point Forums and HighRankings Forum.

Rich Snippets Now in Google UK & Other Non-US Properties

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 2:17pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

First blogged at BigMouthMedia, Google's Rich Snippets feature which went live in the U.S. in May is now showing up in other Google properties, such as the UK, Canada and other English based language countries.

When it first launched, it was only based in the US. But now if you try to bring up sites that provide rich snippets to Google outside of the US, some show them. For example, Google UK, Google Canada and Google Ireland all show them, but Google Israel, Google Mexico and Google Italy do not. I believe it has to do with the language of that country.

A screen shot of Rich Snippets now showing in the Google UK:

A screen shot of Rich Snippets not showing in Google Mexico:

This was first spotted in a thread we covered earlier that felt rich snippets were coming to smaller sites, still not sure if that is true.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Thanksgiving Greetings 2009 From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Search Industry

Posted: November 26th, 2009, 2:10pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, it is my favorite holiday. As you can imagine, the search news (as in all news) will be slow today, so here is a look at today's special logos, themes and designs from our industry. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Bing, Ask and others in the search industry. For the past years logos, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 logos.

Here are 2009's Thanksgiving Day Logos:

Google:

Yahoo (Flash):

AOL (Flash):

Bing:

Ask.com:

Dogpile:

Cre8asite Forums:

PPC Heros:

Search Engine Roundtable (us):

Again, For the past years logos, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 logos.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2009

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

What Are Google's 200 Search Engine Ranking Factors?

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 3:25pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A neat new WebmasterWorld thread is trying to do the impossible by putting down on paper, what exactly are the 200 or so search engine ranking factors used by Google.

The thread creator put out a few dozen ranking factors, but there is a way to go here. Think this is a possible task?

Even if they do get all the 200 ranking factors down, figuring out the weights assigned to each and how Google scores them based on other factors can be a bit complex. SEOs have been trying to do so since even before Google was born. Back then, it was a lot easier, now - it is virtually impossible. I bet Matt Cutts, who has access to this data, wouldn't be able to get it exact (no offense).

Anyway, trying to come up with the list, in itself, is useful on some level. But understanding where to put your emphasis and time in, is what is most important for SEOs to understand.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Snagging Google Maps Reviews From Your Competitors

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 3:15pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A Google Maps Help thread has an interesting report of one business having the reviews of another. If you look at the Thomas French, DC, Chiropractor reviews, they look great, but when you look at Dr Keith Overland, it seems like he has reviews for Dr. French.

Here are the reviews on Dr. Keith Overland's page, which all reference Dr. French:

Two things could of happened here:

(1) It could be a technical glitch with Google Maps where reviews moved from one business listing to another.

(2) The people who left reviews accidentally put it on the wrong business listing?

Both businesses are in Norwalk, Connecticut - so who knows.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Banned Google AdWords Accounts Will Likely Never Be Unsuspended

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 3:02pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

As you know, Google has stepped up disabling and banning AdWords advertisers. The bans result in the advertiser not being able to set up new accounts and Google is stricter about who they ban. In fact, I am getting phone calls and emails from people complaining to me that their accounts are banned (I cannot get accounts unbanned, so please do not call me).

There should be an appeals process, but does it work? I doubt it.

An old Google AdWords Help thread has been updated by AdWordsPro Bindu. Bindu said, in black and white, plus bolded a sentence:

My answer to that would be almost never will account be unsuspended. Once an account is suspended, its hard to get details on the exact violation (I, for example, have no insight as to why accounts are terminated). That said, it almost doesn't matter, because once an account is suspended, Google reserves the right to terminate all future advertising with AdWords.

Got that? It seems like the appeals process won't make much of a difference. As Bindu said earlier in that thread, "though I would not want to raise your hopes, I recommend you write in to support for a re-evaluation of your account. They will be able to follow through with a final word on your account status." Good luck.

Again, I feel bad for those being banned - but I personally cannot do anything for you, so please do not call or email me.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

A Look at Google AdWords Newish Ads

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 2:56pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

The Google blog is coming clean on the various ad formats they have, outside the standard text ads. Like I did over at Search Engine Land, I will post the various ad formats below.

Google Video AdWords Ads:

Google AdWords Sitelinks:

Google AdWords Local Ads:

Google AdWords Product Ads:

Google AdWords Comparison Ads:

Forum discussion at Sphinn and WebmasterWorld.

Google AdWords Opens Product Ads To All U.S. Advertisers

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 2:47pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

The day has come where Google has opened the product ads product to all U.S. advertisers.

I believe Google is running two types of product ads, although I am not 100% sure. I believe one is commission based product AdWords ads and the other is normal PPC based product ads. Here is some history:

Back in January 2008, Google began testing product (base) results in ads. They continued the test in October 2008 with expandable links to these ads. Then in February 2009, the ads became very well seen by many searchers. In May they tested one line product links and in August they tested open product ads. In April, I wrote how to get product images in AdWords ads. Keep in mind, some of these campaigns were not CPA driven, like the one I mention above.

Here is a picture of some product ads in the search results:

Forum discussion at Google Merchant Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2009

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 20, 2009

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 9:55pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

In this week's search video recap, I try a new format, breaking the news up in segments - do let me know if you like it. I am sorry the video is so long, just lots of information to cover. We start with Google's new user interface that is now being seen by some searchers - it is pretty jazzy. Google is showing breadcrumbs instead of URLs in the search results on occasion. Google is testing Image Swirl, it is pretty tasty. Google Social Search labs is now back in action after going offline. Page load time will be a ranking factor in 2010. Is Google's Caffeine index live in a data center? Why did FeedBurner ruin the search engine friendly web? Did Google preform a hand change to the index for Michelle Obama? Microsoft Bing is updating now. Bing UK when out of beta, was it too soon? AdWords goes on another banning spree - but they now have an appeals process. Check out all that Polish Google ad spam. Google no longer allows exceptions to their 35 character display URL limit. Google expanded their product ads beta. AdSense places gold stars near featured ads. I now have access to the new AdSense beta interface. Publishers are being banned over using Tamper Data as a Firefox plugin. Yahoo added a developing news box to some search results. Finally, Danny took us back to the first ever search marketing conference. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Search Topics of Discussion:
Google Search:

Google SEO:

Google Other:

Google Removed Negative Search Result Michelle Obama, Should They Have?

Bing:

AdWords:

AdSense:

Yahoo:

Yahoo Adds Tweets In New Developing News Box

SEM Industry:

Danny Sullivan Looks Back at Starting Search Marketing Conferences

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Google Jazz User Interface Out In The Wild

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 3:06pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Yesterday, Danny covered a new user interface Google is testing on about 2% of their users right now. The interface is known internally (actually, it is not named this internally, but the name is catchy, so maybe we should use it?) as the Jazz UI and is much more colorful, has streamlined search options and kind of looks like the the old Ask 3D interface, just a bit. This new UI might be launched after the holiday season to everyone, so be ready.

Danny wrote (but read the all the details, if you will):

Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t like jazz.

There are some people who actually see the new interface. There are two thread at Google Web Search Help, one with screen captures, which prove to me they see it. Here are those screen captures:

This person simply asked, "can anyone help me get Google's regular look back?" The other comment reads:

I did a search a couple minutes ago and it seems like they changed their user interface to look more like a Bing or Yahoo search. For me this is a major fail because the beauty of Google was not only did it feel comfortable, it gave me a wide variety of options like the site links at the side of the page and the sposored links at the top of my search. I think Google should remain the way it was, maybe some minor tweaks but making it look sterile and utterly boring like Bing won't win fans. No other search engine has ever managed to knock Google off the top, so why are they downgrading to a less popular model?

Can't make everyone happy, now can you?

Forum discussion at Sphinn and Google Web Search Help.

Microsoft Bing November 2009 Search Update?

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 3:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Microsoft MSN Search

There is some early discussion over at WebmasterWorld that Microsoft Bing has updated their search index. Many webmasters are discussing changes in rankings in this and other forums (which are hard to link to).

Here is what WebmasterWorld moderator, martinibuster wrote:

Bing engineers may need to refine their trust algos. I'm seeing a SERP where Bing is giving a poor quality subdomain a pass because the main domain has a high amount of inbound links (nearly a million). I think Bings method for determining sites likely to be authoritative needs tweaking.
Interestingly, Bing produces another result not seen in the other search engines that is actually pretty good.

For this site, I can tell you Bing sends up more traffic than Yahoo.

The last Bing update we reported was in late October.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

GoogleBot Can Also Crawl Too Much & Be Nasty

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 2:52pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

The other day, I noticed a thread at Google Webmaster Help where a person was complaining that they were being hit hard by GoogleBot. In short, Google's spider was crawling his site in a very aggressive manner. He said:

After setting a custom crawl rate using webmaster tools (and robots.txt for good measure) GoogleBot's crawl rate slowed to the specified 1 request per (approx.) 60 seconds. However, as of a few hours ago the crawl rate has increased to an inexplicable 1 request every 2 to 3 seconds which is unacceptable - I've had to take the drastic response of adding a site wide disallow until I can get this resolved. Why would the crawl rate increase in speed so and how can I get it to return to the values specified?

Googler, Jonathan Simon, replied and said there was a temporary bug that cause the issue. He apologized and said it was now resolved. Jonathan said:

I took a look into what you've reported and it turns out that there was a temporary issue in the processing pipeline of the crawl rate settings which caused them to not take effect. This issue is now resolved so crawl rate settings should once again behave as expected.

I often give Microsoft a hard time about MSNBot being too aggressive and not listening to webmaster directives. So this time, I felt I point out an issue with GoogleBot.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Google Now Enforcing 35 Character Display URL Policy

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 2:43pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

First spotted by Kim at AdWords Help Experts Blog, a Google AdWords Help thread has reports that Google is now enforcing the 35 character display URL limit set on AdWords ads.

One advertiser asked for an exception, which Google did allow advertisers to do in the past, and received a reply that read:

Initially for URLs exceeding character limit we used to give exception on a case-by-case basis. However, please note we've revised our guideline on short display URL exception and sorry to inform you that we no longer provide exceptions to the display URL policy for domains that exceed the character space, which is limited to 35 characters for text ads and 20 characters for mobile ads.

There also use to be a way to use dynamic keyword inserting techniques to trick Google into giving you a longer title, but that no longer seems to work for the keywords I have tested. Yes, display URL and ad title are different, I just noticed this as well, when looking back at the history on this topic.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

Yahoo Adds Tweets In New Developing News Box

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 2:37pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Engine

Yahoo announced they have added a developing news box that includes news articles, pictures, videos and also tweets.

Starting today, you can see relevant photos, videos, and tweets about a breaking news story on the Yahoo! News Shortcut. Many of you are already familiar with the existing Yahoo! News Shortcut, which displays headlines on our Web search results page when you look for news stories. The enhanced shortcut with these new tabs will now display for many breaking or major news searches.

Here are some screen captures:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Updates iPhone & Android Gmail & Calendar Interface

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 2:25pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Gone mostly unnoticed, Google has updated their Gmail and Google Calendar interface on iPhone and Android mobile devices. Google did announce a new mobile news look for these devices, but no word on the Gmail interface.

I spotted this update via the Google Mobile Help forums, where Googler, Ethan, confirmed the update. He said:

Gmail updated its look & feel in the browser on Android and iPhone devices today. Some of Google's other mobile apps, like Calendar, have also gotten the new look. Other than the 're-skinning,' features are unchanged for now.

Here is what the new 'skin' looks like on the iPhone:

Here is the old one:

Small difference, but someone noticed.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2009

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google Disabling AdSense Accounts For Using Tamper Data Firefox Plugin

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 3:10pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdSense

I have been seeing reports of Google banning and disabling AdSense accounts due to using a Firefox plugin named Tamper Data. Tamper Data allows people to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters, which can be helpful, but also used for evil.

The emails being sent to these publishers read:

During a recent review of your account, our specialists found that tamper data was used to modify the country listed in your account. Changing your address in this manner is a violation of our policy guidelines.

What appears is happening is that publishers are signing up using Tamper Data to fake their location. You can read why and how this is done at this blog and this one.

In summary, certain countries are not allowed to sign up for AdSense so people fake where they are from. I am not sure why people would use this technique when they are in an approved location, unless I am missing something?

You can read the dozens of threads about this at Google AdSense Help or a thread at WebmasterWorld.

Google Maps Satellite Images Being Posterized?

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 3:02pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A Google Maps Help thread reports that at least one satellite image in South Africa has a weird posterization effect to it.

You can see it yourself at 33°55'7.79"S, 25°35'2.40"E, or Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Here is a picture:

This looks like a heavily posterized image to me, but I doubt that was the case. There must have been some type of interference when the image was captured?

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Bing UK Out of Beta, But Too Soon?

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 2:49pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Microsoft MSN Search

About a week ago, Bing announced they have taken Bing UK (www.bing.co.uk) out of beta. They basically said, you can now get more relevant UK results when in the UK and searching in the UK. Here is a snippet from the blog post:

When you search for Football, what kind of answers do you expect to find. Well, I guess it depends on where you are doing the asking, if you are in the UK you probably don’t want to see NFL schedules. You probably mean what we in the US call soccer. Well today, millions of searchers in the UK can rest assured that Bing knows what they are talking about. We are excited to announce today that Bing in the UK is shedding its beta tag. We want to congratulate our pals over in the UK on a huge milestone.

A HighRankings Forum thread is taking issue with this. Two searchers from the UK were not satisfied with the localized version of Bing. They said:

I did a study yesterday and the example they provided (Football) still returns the NFL - something they said that the UK 'wouldn't be interested in'. The universal search results are even worse with US today results of 'American Football' being returned (and two images of an American Football).

You are certainly right, doesn't look like Bing UK has any UK inteligence, I just did a simple search for the word 'analyse' , and the no.1 result returned was spelt with a 'z' , looks like Bing has a long, long way to go yet eh Andy!

I personally tried a search for football in Bing.com and Bing.co.uk and I am seeing tailored results for each region. Yes, NFL.com comes up in the UK, but not in the top result. Since I am not from the UK, it is hard for me to judge.

Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum.

Google Reader URLs a Target for Email Spammers

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 2:41pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

For years, email spammers have been looking for ways to encourage people to click on their links. And for years, Google has been a target. Why? Well, when someone sees a link that has google.com in it, people trust it. So over the years, Google URLs that redirect to other sites have been a target by spammers.

The most recent Google property targeted by such attacks is Google Reader.

A Google Reader Help thread has reports of such cases, with a Googler confirming it is an issue. Several people are reporting receiving email spam with URLs that look some thing like:

http://www.google.com/reader/item/tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3c49b76cf8cb8ba0

Clicking on that URL would have redirected you to a non-Google site.

Googler, Roger said:

It looks like some spammers have taken a liking to Google Reader - we're currently trying to find the best way to limit this kind of automated abuse without impacting the experience of real users such as yourselves. Hopefully we'll have a solution that works for everyone soon. Thanks for your patience and understanding in the meantime-

So be on the look out.

Forum discussion at Google Reader Help.

Danny Sullivan Looks Back at Starting Search Marketing Conferences

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 2:34pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

Yesterday, Danny Sullivan wrote an article named 10 Years Ago: The First Search Marketing Conference, A Retrospective. The article is a must read for everyone who is a daily reader of this site.

In short, Danny talks about how the first search marketing conference came about. He also talks about the various sessions they hosted then. Including many of the panelists who still talk today at his conferences. Yes, the first conference in search marketing was in 1999 and Google's founders were on a panel as the "small search engine."

While the agenda listed Larry Page as speaking, Sergey was also there. He either joined Larry or replaced him at the last minute. Some conference veterans remember how Sergey rollerskated on stage. Actually, he did that a year later, joking about new Google technologies and demoing his shoes with pop-out wheels.

We didn't start covering search conferences until 2003, four years after the first search conference. Wow, has the time flown by and has this industry changed or has it?

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Google Removed Negative Search Result Michelle Obama, Should They Have?

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 2:22pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

A week or so ago, we reported that a search in Google images for Michelle Obama returned a racist image. The image was offensive, racist and has been removed from the search results - which is what I was hoping for. But Google responded to the thread and explained that they normally do not change the search results unless:

(1) It violates our Webmaster Guidelines
(2) If Google believes they are required to do so by law
(3) Or at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the image

I am not sure if this image fell under any of those three conditions. Google was not clear if it did, nor did they specifically say which this case fell under. I don't think it violated the Webmaster Guidelines, I don't think the image was "illegal," and I doubt the webmaster asked to have the image taken down. I can be wrong on all of these points, but I am not sure.

Here is Google's full response:

If you recently used Google Images to search for the term [ Michelle Obama ], you may have seen results that were very disturbing. We assure you that the views expressed by the image in your results are not in any way endorsed by Google.
As with Google Web Search, ranking in Google Images results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query.

Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results, or images from our Google Images results, simply because the content is in very poor taste or because we receive complaints concerning it. We will, however, remove pages from our results if we believe the image, page (or its site) violates our Webmaster Guidelines, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the image.

We apologize for the upsetting nature of the experience you had using Google Images and appreciate your taking the time to inform us about it. We will continue to improve the product based on your feedback to make sure that users find the most useful, relevant images through Google Images.

-Jem

Am I missing something? Why did Google take it down? Did the White House force them to by making it a legal matter? Maybe the site was indeed in violation of the webmaster guidelines? The site itself is still live, so I am not sure.

Google is clear that they do not remove offensive, racist or anti-semitic from the search results. I am just confused in this case. Don't get me wrong, I am extremely happy the result was removed - but was this only done because she is the First Lady?

Forum discussion continued at Google Web Search Help.

Get Ready, Here Come More Google AdWords Account Bans

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:57pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

The mass AdWords banning that has continued on since late September of this year is just going to get worse. Google told me last night that they are stepping up the account level bans and making them permanent on the account level.

Nick Fox of Google told me Google is now better at enforcement and able to offer more comprehensive enforcement of their existing policies. This is why they have decided to step up these efforts by banning not just sites from advertising, but complete accounts and permanently stopping them from signing up for new accounts (they have ways).

In the past, I complained that Google replied to AdWords advertisers with lame responses. Fox promised me that the communication process with these account bans have been improved. All accounts that are being banned will get an email from Google telling them they have been banned and instructing them how to appeal the ban. All appeals will get a response from Google, no matter what.

I am some more details at Search Engine Land about this and AdWordsAdvisor posted a note at WebmasterWorld about this as well, the message read:

In keeping with our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, we spend a tremendous amount of time and effort monitoring the quality of our search and ad results. As we've stated many times before, Google's primary focus is on delivering the best possible search experience to our end users. To help further this goal, we work with our advertisers in a number of different ways to help them design and run the best ads possible.

Unfortunately, some online advertisers continue to promote services and websites that do not help, and in some cases could harm, our users. For instance, these advertisers may offer free services that bait users into accepting hidden fees. Or these advertisers may attempt to deliver malware to unsuspecting web citizens. Regardless of the practice, these types of campaigns do not benefit our users and we therefore take steps to enforce our policies and prevent such advertisers from running ads through our systems.

Over the last decade Google has implemented a number of systems and processes to identify and disable ads that direct users to these offending websites. However, the ad disabling procedures have resulted in ongoingback and forth between us and these questionable advertisers as they try to outsmart our systems and processes. Therefore, we're being stricter with advertisers who deliver a bad user experience by permanently disabling AdWords accounts that engage in prohibited behavior.

Recently we began implementing this new account disabling. As a result, many advertisers who provide a poor user experience and have previously had their ads disabled will now have their accounts disabled.

We take our user, advertiser and publisher experiences very seriously, and remain dedicated to delivering only the highest quality advertising results to our users. We believe this new process of permanently disabling accounts will markedly improve the overall experience of our users, advertisers and publishers.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums.

Google Sitelinks Linking to Wrong Sites?

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:47pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that someone is noticing that his site's Sitelinks in Google are pointing to a different site. I am not sure how that is possible. How can Google link a Sitelink for one site to a different site? But according to this webmaster, it is true.

I do not have any proof that this is happening, nor will I ever get proof because WebmasterWorld does not allow examples. But I believe it is possible that with DNS changes and shared IPs, it is possible that Google can be confused and link to the wrong place.

There were cases where Google got the wrong site for the info operator and the cache being the wrong page, but never a Sitelink.

If this happens to you, the first thing you should do is block those Sitelinks in Google Webmaster Tools. Then post evidence at Google Webmaster Help.

As Tedster said at WebmasterWorld:

Sounds like a particularly nasty data bug. Does that sitelink show up in your Webmaster Tools account? If so, you can veto it. If not, you could take the issue up on the Google Webmaster forum or try a reconsideration request.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Translate Gets Major Upgrade

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:40pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Google announced a major upgrade for Google Translate. I am personally very impressed.

The new features include:

New layout
Instant translation
Shows reading phonetically in English
Speaks English translation for you (i.e. text to speech)
Type phonetically also

Here is a video demonstrating the new features:

There are both compliments and anger about the change in the Google Translate Group.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums and Google Translate Group.

Holiday Shopping With Google Search Options

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:30pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Jaime from Google reminds us in a Google Web Search Help thread about a 1.5 month old search option feature Google added, named "More shopping sites." Basically, if you conduct a search on Google, click on "search options" and then click on "More shopping sites" Google will try to show you results from sites selling things.

Here is a picture:

This kind of reminds me of Yahoo Mindset, a tool Yahoo created a while back allowing people to change the type of search results from shopping to research with a slider. Here is an old picture of the slider:

Now, personally, I'll probably stick with using Google to research products and then once I find the sku, use both Google, specialized shopping search engines and Bing Cashback to find the best deal.

Happy Holidays!

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:21pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

The Google LatLong blog announced an upgrade that is currently now available in the iTunes App store for the iPhone. Google Earth 2.0 is out and it has new features, including:

My Maps Integration
Performance Improvements
Improved "Icon" Selection
Added 13 languages, now 31 languages in total

With iPhone App updates, when they are available in the iTunes App Store, they might not be available for all users. Kind of like when a Google update is out, some people see it and some don't, early on. Why? Cause of multiple servers and the syncing of those servers can take time.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2009

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Page Load Time & Speed Will Likely Be a Ranking Factor in Google

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 2:54pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Page load time (speed) is a factor currently in the AdWords quality score. But soon it may be coming to Google's organic ranking algorithm. If you have a really slow site, it may impact how high you rank in Google. That was the main news coming out of PubCon last week, minus the Caffeine launch.

It is currently not in the algorithm, according to Matt, but who knows - maybe they are testing this already. Matt was clear that Google wants the web to be a faster place and Google does control much of what people see on the web. So Google can influence that people find faster web pages, over slower ones.

You can hear Matt talk about this 2 minutes and 52 seconds into this video:

Google also has a tool to test page speed at [code.google.com] - so get ready.

I should add, Google has hundreds of ranking factors. Adding one more, depending on the weight they assign to it, shouldn't shuffle things up much for most sites. Just make sure your site loads fast - it is a good thing to have anyway.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google's FeedBurner Tagging URLs : Duplicate Content Issue

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 2:39pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

The Google AdSense for Feeds blog announced they will be tagging your FeedBurner feeds with Google Analytics parameter tracking. I have been seeing this for several blogs for the past few weeks already. Basically, this means, Google is appending variables to the URL.

For example, if you look at one of our latest posts, the URL is [feeds.seroundtable.com]. If you click it, it takes you to [www.seroundtable.com].

The purpose is to make tracking better in Google Analytics but clearly, this is just messy. Heck, I have been linking to these URLs via the SearchCap for the past couple weeks and now it is going to get a lot worse. I am going to be linking to a URL that is not the parent URL.

This is the topic of concern at Cre8asite Forums. JohnMu from Google came into that thread to offer some SEO advice:

- Move to "#" for these parameters, which will effectively hide them from search engines. There are a few articles on this, eg [esev.com]
- Use the rel=canonical link element: [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]

- For Google, use the URL parameter handling tool to tell us to ignore these parameters: [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]

In general, we'll try to figure these things out on our own (as will the other search engines), but personally I like to be in control so I'd probably try something like that.

Or you can turn off the tracking, the Google blog explains how but here is that info:

If you're not using Google Analytics, or for some other reason don't want these parameters in the requests coming to your website, you can turn off Google Analytics tracking on the "Configure Stats" page on the Analyze tab at http://feedburner.google.com.

Got all of that. You should take action, as I should as well.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.

Is Google Caffeine At 216.239.59.103 Data Center?

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 2:28pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

As we all know, Google Caffeine is launching on a single data center until after the holidays so that online retailers don't get a nasty present from Google.

As I promised then, I would let you know what data center the results went or go live on, when I hear. There are some discussions and chatter at WebmasterWorld that one data center may have Caffeine results. Google has not confirmed it, nor do all webmasters believe these are Caffeine like results.

The data center is 216.239.59.103 and you should give it a try yourself. Matt said that even if they do give out an IP address, it is possible that non-Caffeine results will show on that data center for some people. So maybe this is Caffeine and some don't see it? I am not sure - I am pretty sure Matt can confirm this IP as the data center or not - after he gets back from Las Vegas.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Update #1: Some are saying this data center has moved to 66.102.7.18.

Update #2: Google's Matt Cutts replied to me on Twitter saying, "@rustybrick I don't think that IP points to Caffeine."

Google: "Who Is The Failure"? President Obama & White House

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 2:16pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Ask Google who is the failure and you will see Google showing the first result as whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama.

Yes, a "Google Bomb" on President Obama and the White House. Google has to run their bomb defuse algorithm, which by the way has two algorithms to fix this issue. Just like they did for miserable failure and failure bombs.

The best place to see all the history on these types of presidential Google Bombs is at Search Engine Land.

This search was first sent to me last week by @suzukik.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Expands Product Listing Ads CPA Model Test

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 2:03pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

Google announced last week that they will be expanding their test of the commission based product ads they started testing in June. Over the weekend, many started noticing the new type of ads in the Google search results.

A WebmasterWorld thread has some people taking notice.

Back in January 2008, Google began testing product (base) results in ads. They continued the test in October 2008 with expandable links to these ads. Then in February 2009, the ads became very well seen by many searchers. In May they tested one line product links and in August they tested open product ads. In April, I wrote how to get product images in AdWords ads. Keep in mind, some of these campaigns were not CPA driven, like the one I mention above.

Here are some live examples of searches that trigger these ads:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Social Search Temporarily Goes Offline, To Return Soon

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 1:52pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

October 26th, Google launched a new labs product called Google Social Search. It is basically the only labs product I left on, by default, for my Google searches - it is that cool.

Over the weekend, I like many many others, noticed a Google notice that Social Search was "no longer available" as a Google experimental option. We all currently get this error:

There are many complaining about it on the blogs, Twitter and in the Google Web Search Help thread. So I emailed Google, asking what is up and they said:

The Google Social Search experiment is temporarily down. We are working on it and expect to restore access sometime Monday or Tuesday.

So expect this feature to return back sometime today or tomorrow. Honestly, this is a feature that I doubt Google will ever completely terminate.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2009

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 13, 2009

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 3:40pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

In this weeks recap, I act all tired and dazed from coming off a red eye from Las Vegas and doing the video at 8am in the morning, with maybe 20 minutes of sleep. Of course I talked about our PubCon coverage, about 40 sessions covered live. Google shut down the Google Caffeine Sandbox and is pushing it out to a single data center soon. Google enhanced the keyword report in Webmaster Tools. MSNBot is having issues respecting the crawl delay directive. Bing added the awesome Wolfram Alpha data. Google Maps has a pornography issue. Are rich snippets being displayed in Google for smaller sites? The AdWords team did a help and tip photo shoot, they also backed a cake for the one year birthday. There is some fake Matt Cutts ban spam that is not real. We also have logos for Veterans Day, Sesame Street and Berlin Wall to show you. That was this week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on iTunes to be notified of these updates and download the video in the background. Here is the YouTube version of the feed:

For the original iTunes version, click here or to see the YouTube version in higher quality, click play & hit "HD."

Some Of The Topics Discussed:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don't forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!

First Google Image Result for Michelle Obama Pure Racist

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 1:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

If you conduct a search in Google Images for [Michelle Obama] you will see a racist image in the number one result. The image is hosted on buzzoverm.blogspot.com and here is a copy of the search result:

Someone reported this at a Google Web Search Help thread, but no Googler has responded as of yet.

I assume after Google sees this post, it will be removed soon.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google Storage Upgrade Does Not Upgrade

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 1:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Like many, when Google announced you can now buy more storage for less, I decide to buy more storage. So I went through the purchase storage process, paid the bill, got the order receipt and waited.

3 days later, I am still waiting to receive that upgrade. I ordered an additional 20GB of storage, here is my email receipt:

But when I log in to check my storage available, it still shows the old amount.

Gmail View:

Admin Account Management View:

So I follow all the Gmail Storage Troubleshooting tips and get no where. I then click on the "If you are still unable to access your Google paid storage, please contact us" link. The link is to google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?contact_type=contact_storage but when you click it, it redirects you to the generic Google help with no way to get real help.

I am not the only person with this issue, there are a couple complaining at the Gmail Help forum.

It is only $5, so I don't mind donating the money but I do really want the extra storage.

Forum discussion at Gmail Help.

Google's Safe Browsing Site: sb.google.com

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 12:53pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A Google Webmaster Help thread had one webmaster who received an email from Google warning of a phishing attempt on this person's site. The webmaster asked if it was real. The email said he/she should "submit a safebrowsing report at http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/."

JohnMu from Google replied that if you want to make sure the email is real, that you should login to the Google Webmaster Tools and see if there is a message there about it. If yes, then it is legit, if not - not.

In addition, John explained that "the sb.google.com URL you mentioned is the correct one to submit feedback on the safebrowsing status of the flagged URL on your site."

Give sb.google.com a try. :)

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Are "Web Site Designed By" Links Bad?

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 12:46pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Link Building

A Google Webmaster Help thread asks a common question in link building. The question is, are "web site designed by X," where "X" is a link to your company, against Google's guidelines?

Both a "level 4" and "top contributor" replied to the thread. One said:

I would think this is a matter of personal preference, and it is quite common in the industry.

The other said:

As far as we know - there is no harm from them. (Hope not - I use them on all my sites ;))

What do you think? Like they said, this is done very often. My company no longer does this, we haven't in years. But we did it a lot before "link building" was so important - go figure.

This is not a new question, we asked in in 2006 with

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

PubCon 2009 Vegas Coverage Recap

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 1:32am CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

We covered just under 40 sessions at the 2009 PubCon. That makes it the sixth PubCon Vegas we covered, we got 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004. This year, our volunteers include Avi Wilensky & Sheara Goldenthal from Promediacorp, Brian Ussery aka Beussery, Marty Weintraub from aimClear and Carolyn Shelby aka Cshel. Thank you guys!

Here are links to all our coverage:

Day One Coverage:

Day Two Coverage:

Day Three Coverage:

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 2009

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 1:18am CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

PubCon Live: Super Session : Search Engines and Webmasters - aka: The Search Engine Smackdown

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 1:05am CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Super Session : Search Engines and Webmasters - aka: The Search Engine Smackdown from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Brian Ussery - Beu Blog & Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick.

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Super Session : Search Engines and Webmasters - aka: The Search Engine Smackdown

PubCon Live: Community Hacking: 96 Baiting Strategies You Can Employ

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 11:45pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Community Hacking: 96 Baiting Strategies You Can Employ from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Avi Wilensky of Promediacorp .

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Community Hacking: 96 Baiting Strategies You Can Employ

PubCon Live: Search Bloggers : What's Hot and Trending?

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 11:45pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Search Bloggers : What's Hot and Trending? from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Brian Ussery - Beu Blog.

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Search Bloggers : What's Hot and Trending?

PubCon Live: Real World Winning Tactics for Content Creation

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 10:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Real World Winning Tactics for Content Creation from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp.

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Real World Winning Tactics for Content Creation

PubCon Live: Social Media Measurement and Signals

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 10:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Social Media Measurement and Signals from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Marty Weintraub from aimClear.

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Social Media Measurement and Signals

PubCon Live: Starting a vBulletin Community

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 8:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Starting a vBulletin Community from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp.

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Starting a vBulletin Community

PubCon Live: Real World, Low Risk, High Reward Link Building Strategies

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 8:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Below is live coverage of the Real World, Low Risk, High Reward Link Building Strategies from the PubCon 2009 conference.

This coverage is provided by Avi Wilensky of Promediacorp & Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick.

We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.

Real World, Low Risk, High Reward Link Building Strategies

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Posted: November 30th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Tags: Google AdWords

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:47pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:40pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:30pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 2:21pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick