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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

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.

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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

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2009

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

Tags: Search Forum Recap

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

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

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

First Google Image Result for Michelle Obama Pure Racist

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

Tags: Google Search Engine

Google Storage Upgrade Does Not Upgrade

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

Tags: Other Google Topics

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

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

Tags: Other Google Topics

Are "Web Site Designed By" Links Bad?

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

Tags: Link Building

PubCon 2009 Vegas Coverage Recap

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

Tags: WebmasterWorld PubCon 2009 Las Vegas

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 2009

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

Tags: Search Forum Recap

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