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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 29, 2010

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 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 :: January 29, 2010

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 7:25pm CET by rustybrick

This week, the bulk of the discussion in this recap is Google related. I talked about more Google Caffeine discussions, is it going live? Use a 410 status code for really strong 404s. Google launched answer highlighting in snippets. Google also released social search. Kaspersky blocked Google AdSense ads, again. Google is paying publishers less and less - and we try to figure out why. Search grows at 46% worldwide, Google grew even faster. Google Maps search added personalization, but does it slow you down. Google Reader tracks even non-RSS pages. Google messed up the Kuwait doodle and had controversy over Australia's Doodle 4 Google competition. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Search Business:

Search Continues to Grow: Showing 46% Growth YoY, comScore

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Google Maps Can't Find Home After Adding Personalization

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Google Reader Tracks Changes To All Web Pages: Tips on How to Block It

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What's New With AdSense Publishers?

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:10pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdSense

There is a useful WebmasterWorld thread that has summarized some of the larger issues that have rose to the top discussions in the various forums on AdSense. They point out three main topics disturbing publishers:

A number of publishers complaining about making less money.
Some publishers reporting a general increase in average EPC
Lots of noise on the AdWords board about advertiser accounts being shut down by Google

I have honestly seen threads contradicting the average EPC discussion but in any event, this is the bulk of the complaints these days on Google AdSense.

What publishers are doing now is trying to figure out if any of the above correlate to each other. Would accounts being banned have a direct impact on the remaining publishers making less money? I can see how AdWords account bans, which have been on the rise, do have an impact - but AdSense accounts? Maybe I am not thinking hard enough - due to the early hour.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

No Bathroom Breaks for Google AdWords Exams

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:04pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

This may be common knowledge to some, but I really had no idea the Google AdWords Professional exam was timed. You have two hours to complete about one hundred questions. You cannot pause the test or stop it and pick it up later.

Personally, I am an extremely fast test taker. I was the one in class that always finished first. Didn't mean I got all the questions right, but I was fast. But there are many people out there that are extremely slow at test taking. Do you think two hours for 100 questions is enough time?

A Google AdWords Help thread has AdWordsPro, an official Google representative, saying that he/she wanted to pause the test him/herself but was unable to. Let me quote:

When I took it again recently I, too, wished I could have paused it for a quick trip to the restroom. Too much coffee during the final pre-test studying!

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

Bing Too Easy To Rank Well In?

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Microsoft MSN Search

A funny WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO scratching his head in wonderment as to how he ranks so well in Bing, without really having any SEO reason to be. Let me quote what he said:

Right now my two-month-old site, with NO backlinks established but good internal content and linking (not SEO'd, just logically laid out), is #1 in Bing for a term that surprised the heck out of me... related, yes, but seriously American Express or Mastercard or any number of established entities should be #1 on these terms. They are #2 and #3.

At first I thought it was maybe some kind of local thing... that those companies are nowhere near me, but my site IS near me and therefore it's showing local relevant results first? But nope, if I remote into a server in a datacenter on the other side of the country and run a search from there it's #1 there too. Crazy...

In Google, the site is half way down page 3 for the same term, about where I expected it would be given its age and competition.

I'm certainly not going to call up Bing and complain about it, but it's freakin weird.

I was hoping, like for me, the thread would make you smile after a long week.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Suggest AdWords Ads In The Wild

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 1:54pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

Back in December 2008, over a year ago, Google began testing AdWords in Google Suggest on the Google.com home page. Since then, I rarely saw anyone report seeing ads as you type your query in the Google search box.

A new WebmasterWorld thread has one user reporting seeing it. Maybe Google is finally moving forward with these ads? I personally cannot trigger an ad to show up for my sample queries, but maybe I am not on that data center or in the new test group?

The webmaster said:

I noticed when doing a search, that at the top of the 'search suggestions', box, a clickable adwords ad appeared. (for the company whose name I was typing). This might not be new, but I never saw this before...

I only saw this when using the google.com/ home page for the first time.

Here is how it may look:

Do you see them? Have you seen them? Do you like or hate them?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 28, 2010

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 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 Drops Aboriginal Flag from Doodle Winner Due To Copyright

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 3:18pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Google ran a Doodle4Google competition in Australia and Jessie won with this Doodle:

When they posted the Doodle on the Google.com.au web site, it was missing the Aboriginal Flag. Here is a picture:

I mentioned this in passing in Google's Kuwait Doodle mistake. But now, Google came to the Google Web Search Help forums explaining the issue. Jaime from Google said:

Thanks for voicing your concern here in the forum. Just to make sure everyone is aware of what took place I wanted to explain here that due to the Aboriginal Flag having copyright, we requested permission from the Aboriginal Copyright owners to display the original doodle with the flag on the Google homepage. They declined the permission and as such, in consultation with Jessie, we had to gently alter the doodle so we could proudly display her wonderful artwork - of which we are very proud.

It is a shame Google was unable to get rights to show the flag there. But Jessie seemed like a good sport!

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google Maps Can't Find Home After Adding Personalization

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 3:06pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

This week, Google added personalization to help you find your "favorite locations faster." The issue is, it slows you down in finding your most favorite location - your home!

A Google Maps Help thread has complaints from people who have saved locations labeled as "home." Whenever they wanted directions, they typed in "home" or "my home" and bingo, it came up. Now it does not and it requires them to enter in their address, which in turn, slows them down.

The searcher said:

It appears the Google Maps team has replaced the "saved locations" feature with the "personalized search results". The problem is, when I created my "saved locations" I included some additional information in the names of those entries so they could be easily found by personal names. For instance, if my friend Steve lived at a particular address, I'd save his address into "saved locations" and include the name "Steve" or "Steve's home". Then, I was able to start typing "Steve" and it would automatically bring up this saved location.
This is no longer the case. His address is still flagged in my web history and it autocompletes if I start typing in his address... but I can no longer start typing "Steve" to bring up his location.

Any chance we can still get to our "saved locations" data to at least backup the data before you nuke it all for good?

The thread seems to be heating up with angry Google Maps users. The thing is, Google is listening, so it will be interesting to see what changes, if any, they make based on this feedback. Google Maps Linda said:

This is great feedback guys. I'll be sure to share this with the team. I don't have an answer right now, but hopefully I will be able to share more later.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Trusted Sources vs Less Trusted Sources on Google News

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:54pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Clearly, Google News has it's own algorithms and techniques in ranking stories and articles. Danny has one of the most comprehensive articles on ranking stories in Google News that I know of. But I spotted an interesting thread at the Google News Help forums about how possibly some stories can, over time, hurt your trustworthiness in Google News.

The person is trying to somehow communicate to Google that some of his stories are press releases and wants to tell Google not to index or add them to Google News. Why? Simply because he doesn't want to impact his "trusted source status" with Google News.

Inbal, the official Google News rep in that forum replied:

Thanks for your honest feedback. I encourage you to submit your press release hubs to our team; this should not have any implications on your current news site's ranking.

I believe you can even do this type of labeling in the new sitemap format for Google News, which is going to be required soon. Not sure why she didn't mention that as a solution.

But what takeaways do you get from this? Don't abuse your Google News access, because Google can drop your rankings in it easily.

Forum discussion at Google News Help.

Google Launches Social Search

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:46pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Google has launched the very neat social search feature yesterday. I am honestly surprised there is not more discussion around it in the forums. We covered it three times, first for the demo, then when it went experimental and then with some technical issues.

Well, it is now live. On by default. Honestly, I don't believe it impacts normal searches unless you specific choose, "show options" and click on the social feature.

But when you do, it opens up a world of new searches based on your online social profile (which you may or may not have).

Here is my social circle as found by Google:

Here is my social content:

Here is a detailed look at the "paths" on how I am associated to one of my contacts, JohnMu at Google:

Video Demo:

Pretty neat!

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums.

How To Report a Google AdWords Professional

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:29pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

An Google AdWords Help thread has one company who feels he was scammed by a Google "subcontractor." His first mistake is not being knowledgeable enough about who he hired. Google does not have "subcontractors" but they do have certified AdWords professionals.

So if you do feel you were done wrong by a certified AdWords professional, you can report them. That is, if they are really an AdWords professional. First make sure they are a a certified professional. If they are, there is a "Report a complaint about this partner" link on their hosted Google page.

Side note: Interesting they call them "partners" here.

Once you click on that link, you are taken to this form, which you can fill out. Google should then review the complaint and take any necessary action they deem appropriate.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

Why Does Google Sometimes Show PSAs for Cumming Georgia Pages?

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:18pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdSense

A WebmasterWorld thread has a unique discussion going on about Google AdSense and their stop words. In this discussion, some publishers have landing pages targeting the city, Cumming, Georgia. Clearly, the word 'Cumming' is an adult word, but it is also a fairly populated city in Georgia.

The question is, why are some of the pages that target this city, showing Google AdSense ads that are PSA (public service ads), while others seem to show related Georgia based ads? Is Google confusing some of those pages as being adult? Or are there other reasons?

I decided to track down two pages that have PSAs and two that don't, and they all target the city in Georgia.

PSAs for Cumming, Georgia:

Non-PSAs for Cumming, Georgia:

Why would some serve up PSAs and some not? It doesn't seem like Google is stupid enough to not know the city?

Let me try a real live Google AdSense here and see what happens:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2010

Posted: January 27th, 2010, 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.

Remove Pages From Google ~Forever Using a 410 Status Code

Posted: January 27th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

In October, we reported that Google treats a 410 stronger than a 404 status code. I am not sure exactly when Google made the 410 status code that important, but I believe it was sometime in October.

A new thread surfaced in Google Webmaster Help where it was suggested by a Googler to use the 410, once again.

Googler, Jonathan Simon said:

Last year we started started treating 410 Gone responses as being a stronger signal for indicating when a page no longer exists. So for the situation you describe (where 301 redirects aren't practical) returning a 410 response is the way to go.

It seems to me that when Googlebot discovers a 410, it will communicate to Google to not index that page for a really long time. I believe Google will check pages they know to be 404ed every now and then. Maybe a 410 will tell Googlebot to never check back or check back extremely rarely?

Just keep in mind that the 410 is much stronger than a 404 response - it may come in handy in your future SEO projects.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2010

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 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 Paying AdSense Publishers Less & Less

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:59pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdSense

Often when Google releases earnings, AdSense publishers try to extract how much share Google is paying them of the earnings. Ad you know, a publisher places an ad from Google on their site, the advertiser pays Google and then Google pays a share of that to the publishers. Looking at Google's earnings, you can somewhat figure out how much share publishers make. Always, keep in mind, certain publishers likely get special arrangements.

Labnol posted the latest look at this share, showing that in the first quarter of 2009, Google paid an even 75% to the publishers. However, in the fourth quarter of 2009, that share dropped to 72.06%.

Here is a graph I made showing the decline in 2009:

Here is the data:

	Q1 ‘09	Q2 ‘09	Q3 ‘09	Q4 ‘09
Google AdSense Earnings (in billion)	$1.64	$1.68	$1.80	$2.04
Google Payments to AdSense Publishers (in billion)	$1.23	$1.24	$1.33	$1.47
Percent Given to Publishers	75.00%	73.81%	73.89%	72.06%

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

Google A Month Early On Kuwait's National Day

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:37pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Google had a Doodle slip up this morning, as first reported by Michel. Google posted the National Day logo on Google Kuwait this morning. It was live for over five hours before anyone reported it. The issue is, it was posted a month prior to the official National Day of Kuwait, which takes place February 26th.

Here is the logo:

Google took down the logo about 15 minutes after TechCrunch posted the story.

There were a couple Google Web Search Help threads complaining about Google posting this logo on the wrong day.

Speaking of Google logos, there are some complaints about the Google Australia doodle at Google Web Search Help as well.

In any event, can anyone speculate what Google Kuwait's National Day logo will be this year? :)

Forum discussion Google Web Search Help.

Google Treats Punycode Domains As Unicode (Japanese Domains)

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:27pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion around Japanese domains and how Google may treat them. Honestly, I know very little about this topic, so I hope I do justice to this thread.

Example of Punycode domains versus Unicode:

Unicode - http://アアアアア.com
Punycode - http://xn--cckg5dfdwc.com

Google said, for "domain names in Punycode are equivalent to their Unicode versions." There may be an issue with PageRank being displayed in the Punycode version in the Google Toolbar, but Google assures us that there is PageRank, the equivalent to the Unicode version. JohnMu said in the thread that he would "pass that on to check out" why it isn't working properly in the toolbar.

So which should you use? Google said, they generally use the "Punycode versions since this is more likely to work across all browsers."

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

New Google AdWords API Client Libraries Available

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:19pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

Over the past week, Google has released new client libraries for the AdWords API. The new libraries are available in Java, PHP, Python, .NET, and Ruby. They contain bug fixes, unit tests, and enhancements.

Here are links to the new libraries:

If you run into any issues or have questions, you can submit them over here.

Forum discussion at AdWords API Forum.

Some Google News RSS Subscriptions Not Validating?

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:10pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

The Google News Help forums has a couple of reports that Google News RSS feed is not working properly. Some are complaining they cannot subscribe to Google News searches and some are complaining they are not validating properly.

I know that my tests seem to work just fine and I am able to subscribe to Google News searches via Google Reader. However, when I plug in those RSS URLs into FeedValidator.org, the feeds are not valid, according to them. Here is a sample showing the errors of the Google News rss searches.

There is no word from Google on this as of yet. We know Google News had issues with RSS feeds in the past.

Forum discussion at Google News Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2010

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 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.

Can Too Much Keyword Density Be Interpreted as Boiler Plate Text?

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:38pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

I spotted an interesting Google Webmaster Help thread where a webmaster was asking why the most used words on his site is not showing up in the keywords report in Google Webmaster Tools. It seems like, at least for this report, Google may consider certain usage of a keyword to be over usage and would consider those keywords either boiler plate text or common words.

Jonathan Simon of Google said in that thread, and let me quote:

The Keywords list will sometimes exclude words that we determine to be boiler plate text or common words. This varies from site to site. The Keywords list is a starting point to see how Google is interpreting your site's content. This list should be evaluated in tandem with what's listed in the Top Search Queries report for your site as well as how your site appears in the actual search results for the keywords you're targeting.

He goes on to explain that although it may not show up in the report, due to possible Google issues, this should not impact the site in a negative way. He said:

Boiler plate and commons words (excluded from the Keywords list) vary from site to site. It sounds like for your site we could be doing a better job here.
The more important question though is if this negatively impacts your site's ranking as you mention. It doesn't. That's why I said the Keywords list is a good starting point and that it should be considered in conjunction with other information.

The question I have, is this not helping your site? I guess not.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

More Google Caffeine Sightings Over Weekend

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:28pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google PageRankSERP Updates

An ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has sparked up some heat over the weekend when more people are claiming to see the Google Caffeine results out in the wild.

WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, said on Friday night, that he seems them on six IP addresses. He said:

I'm seeing the Caffeine data-set being served via this set of IP addresses: 64.233.169.147, 64.233.169.105, 64.233.169.103, 64.233.169.104, 64.233.169.99,64.233.169.106
It seems to take 5 IP addresses to build the complete SERP, where in the past it often took only 3.

Here are links to them:

Senior member, Whitenight said:

Well, just tripled checked with offices/employees in Texas, Colorado, and Indiana. All 5 "control" keywords/sites showed live Caffeine.

Does this mean it is live? Not necessarily. Does it mean that Caffeine is coming soon? Not necessarily.

I guess we wait on Google to say something.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Search Continues to Grow: Showing 46% Growth YoY, comScore

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:19pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

comScore released their search growth report and it showed searches have grown 46% worldwide. The U.S. grew 22% from December 2008 to December 2009, with 22.7 billion searches. China followed with 13.3 billion searches, but only grew 13% year over year.

Google took account of 66.8% of those searches, with 87.8 billion searches worldwide, and a growth rate overall of 58%. That is not too bad, although little Microsoft saw a spike of 70% in search share from last year to this year. Here are the charts and also make sure to read Search Engine Land for more analysis:

Forum discussion at two Webmaster World threads.

Kaspersky Blocking Google Ads Again

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:09pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdSense

Two months ago, we reported that Google AdSense was being blocked by Kaspersky Internet security software. That was fixed pretty quickly. But now, we are hearing new reports that the latest Kaspersky update is blocking Google ads again.

The alert people are seeing from Kaspersky is:

Virus detected Severity: Critical event Application: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition Version number: 6.0.2.555 Task name: Real-time file protection Computer: DRxxxxxxx Group: xxxxxxx Time: 25 January 2010 09:26:00 Description: Threat detected: Trojware Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar. Object name: C:Documents and SettingsxxxxLocal SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE5CGQQTE3Hshow_ads[1].js

They are being triggered by pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

We have threads on the issue at WebmasterWorld, Kaspersky Forums and Google Web Search Help.

I have not seen a comment from an official Google represenative or Kaspersky representatives as of yet.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld, Kaspersky Forums and Google Web Search Help.

The Google Webmaster Tools iGoogle Gadgets Are Broken

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:01pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

For those of you who use iGoogle and use the Webmaster Tools Gadget, you may have noticed that no information is flowing to the gadget. Here is a screen shot from my iGoogle dashboard, which I honestly never go to:

It seemed like the issue became a big issue starting on the 20th. A Google Webmaster Help thread has several webmaster reporting it. Then Jonathan Simon of Google came in and confirmed the bug. He said:

We are currently looking into this issue and hope to have it resolved soon.

There is not estimate time for a fix, but Google is aware of the issue.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Google "Answer Highlighting" Upsets Webmasters

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 1:42pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Google announced two new features in their web results. First is called "Answer Highlighting" and the second is an enhancement to the Rich Snippets feature.

Answer Highlighting in short basically uses Google Squared technology to highlight in the search snippet the answer to your search query. For example, and I don't see this in the live Google results right now, if you search for [empire state height], in the past (current) you would have seen this:

With the enhancement, you would see the answer:

Getting the answer in the search results, is a goal of Google, but that means, or can mean, less click throughs from Google to your web site. Webmasters often live off traffic and conversions, so this can be a bit upsetting to many webmasters.

Brett Tabke said in a WebmasterWorld thread:

Taking another page out of the WolframAlpha play book, Google introduces Serps with answers. You may never need to visit any site again.

The other enhancement is allowing event data in rich snippets. How does that improve the feature? Just look at this snippet:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 22, 2010

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 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 :: January 22, 2010

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 9:15pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

In this weeks recap, we go a bit all over the place to get through the most important topics we covered in the past 7 days. We talked about a study that showed the minor impact Google personalized search has on SEO. There may have been a Yahoo Search update this week. Microsoft says they will purge their search data within 6 months. Bing's auto-search suggestions get more current. Bing also shows search results for related queries. Google increased the Sitemaps limit. Google AdWords now has four professional exams. Yahoo released the network distribution feature, finally. SEOmoz built Open Site Explorer, a neat new useful tool. Google Maps lets you add real time content to your business listing. Don't use the same phone number as your competitor, if you don't want issues on your Google local listing. Search for Jesus on Google Images and you'll catch him smoking and drinking. Google continues to cash in, they announced awesome 4th quarter earnings. SEO is being trademarked again, but the story is different. Martin Luther King day was this week, we have the logos for you. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Search Topics of Discussion:

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Google Maps Can't Handle Two Plus Businesses With Same Phone Number

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Remember, a few months ago, I wrote how some Google Maps reviews were being posted on competitors Google Local Business listings? In summary, a Doctor was complaining that his competitors were obtaining his reviews, even though his business has a different name.

What I did not see then was that his competitor(s) have the same phone number as he does. Yes, there are many doctors share an office and the office staff with their competitors to cut costs. I honestly see this all the time in New York, where I live. You call a Doctors office and the same person who answers the phone for your doctor, would answer the phone for another doctor.

So these doctors are at the same location, offer the same medical expertise, compete with each other and even share a phone number. I honestly did not know the doctors don't have their own numbers. But I guess in some cases (possibly many cases) this is the fact, competing doctors share a phone number.

Because of this issue, Google is placing the reviews from one doctor to an other. Google's Joel explained:

It's a difficult problem to solve. I'm not saying we're doing the right thing in every case, but I am trying to give you guidance on how to satisfactorily resolve the issue on your end. If this is a distinct competitor, it seems to make sense to have a separate phone line. Even if the front office is shared.

In response to that, the doctor replied:

I appreciate your help up to this point, but I hardly think suggesting your paying advertisers change their business practices to accommodate your company's inability to fix a problem is appropriate. I hope this is not a signal that Google is changing into just another corporate giant, stepping on the heads of small businesses.
Sorry to be harsh, but these reviews were entered under my name in your system and then changed to a different name. I find it hard to believe that this is unfixable.

From a technology point of view, I see the issue but from a users point of view, this is serious.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

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SEO ≠ Search Engine Optimization, Rather Strategically Elevating Optimization

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:24pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

Yesterday, the HuoMah blog uncovered a new person trying to trademark the term SEO. Yes, this was not the first person, see here for the other. I then wrote about it, with Danny Sullivan, at Search Engine Land.

It turns out that this guy is not looking to trademark the term SEO as Search Engine Optimization. Even though this guy's company is under the DBA of "Search Engine Partner." Instead, he is claiming that he coined the acronym SEO for the term Strategically Elevating Optimization back in September 23, 1996 with first commercial use on September 24, 1999.

So there you have it, from now on, when you say SEO you cannot think Search Engine Optimization. Instead, he wants you to think SEO means Strategically Elevating Optimization.

Either case, I doubt this guy will win a trademark on that term, but what do I know.

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Google Increases Sitemaps Limit to 50,000 from 1,000

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:18pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

I am not sure when this happened, but fairly recently, Google has changed the number of Sitemaps you can reference in a Sitemap index file. The number use to be 1,000 sitemaps can be referenced in a Sitemap index file, now the number is 50,000 Sitemaps. This is a huge increase in capacity.

Still, each Sitemap file can contain up to 50,000 URLs, so technically 50,000 multiplied by 50,000 is 2,500,000,000 or 2.5 billion URLs can be submitted to Google via Sitemaps. That is if I can add correctly.

Googler, Jonathan Simon, said this in a Google Webmaster Help thread:

Thanks for resurfacing this thread as we've improved our capacity a bit since then. The limit used to be 1,000.
The Help Center article you point to is correct. The current maximum number of Sitemaps that can be referenced in a Sitemap Index file is 50,000.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Google's Matt Cutt's State of the Index 2009

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:11pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

If you missed Matt Cutts at PubCon this year and you didn't catch our coverage you are in luck. He "re-created" his presentation given at PubCon in November 2009, on the State of the Index 2009.

Here is the 25 minute video:

Here are the slides:

As a bonus, here are Matt's predictions for 2010 (3 minute video):

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Continues The Cash Drive: Revenue Up, Profits Up, Everything up (GOOG)

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:03pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Last night, Google announced their 4th quarter earnings. Guess what? They beat expectations and overall, everything was up. Greg Sterling posted the key highlights and nice graphs:

Revenues – Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, representing a 17% increase over fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $5.70 billion.
Google Sites Revenues – Google-owned sites generated revenues of $4.42 billion, or 66% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2009. This represents a 16% increase over fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $3.81 billion.
Google Network Revenues – Google’s partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $2.04 billion, or 31% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2009. This represents a 21% increase from fourth quarter 2008 network revenues of $1.69 billion.
International Revenues – Revenues from outside of the United States totaled $3.52 billion, representing 53% of total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared to 53% in the third quarter of 2009 and 50% in the fourth quarter of 2008... Revenues from the United Kingdom totaled $772 million, representing 12% of revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared to 12% in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Paid Clicks – Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our AdSense partners, increased approximately 13% over the fourth quarter of 2008 and increased approximately 9% over the third quarter of 2009.

You can watch the investors call on YouTube.

Here are some comments from members of WebmasterWorld on this financial news:

Hah, mere pocket change.

That's about 300-400 million net profit off Adsense. Not bad for a program that serves ads.

There is more analysis of the announcement in the thread.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 21, 2010

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 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.

A Real Yahoo Search Update for January 2010?

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 3:13pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Optimization

Earlier this month, we reported on a rumored Yahoo Search update. Although it appeared to be an update, the consensus was that what people were seeing was the paid inclusion being weeded out of the organic search results.

But the thread at WebmasterWorld has been updated by BillyS, who often tracks Yahoo. Billy thinks that Yahoo is now updating, for real, this time. He said:

Yahoo tweaked something today around 1:30 until 3:00 Eastern time. We had a huge spike in traffic. Anyone else see this?

Yahoo updates typically don't get as much reaction as a Google update. And over the past year or so, Yahoo updates have received a lot less attention then they have in the past. This is likely due to them losing search market share and giving up to Bing.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Yahoo Search Advertisers Rejoice Over New Network Distribution Feature

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 3:06pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Marketing

Ever since Yahoo launched their new search marketing platform in 2006, advertisers wanted more control of where their ads were showing.

Yesterday, Yahoo launched a feature named Network Distribution that gives advertisers that control. I wrote up a detailed analysis of the new feature about a week ago at Search Engine Land. Here is a copy of that:

The network distribution settings can be found in a couple places, such as under campaign settings. When you go to those settings, you will see the “Network Distribution” settings above the targeting settings. When you click on that it breaks out the options by content and search networks, in addition to breaking it out by the entire network versus Yahoo Search or Yahoo Partners only. It will also show you the past 30 days of campaign activity based on those sections, to see how many clicks, impressions and costs were associated to those areas. From that screen you can adjust your bid, plus or minus, a specific percentage for each area.

Here is a video from the YSM Blog explaining it a bit more visually:

New Year, New Search Enhancements @ Yahoo! Video

Threads at DigitalPoint Forums & WebmasterWorld seem to be very happy with this addition. One person said:

This really makes my day.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums & WebmasterWorld.

SEOmoz Builds Open Site Explorer, Community Likes

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 2:49pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine tools

SEOmoz announced the launch of a new valuable tool named Open Site Explorer. I will not go over the features, every other blog did that.

The tool is extremely powerful, but it is not completely "open" or "free" as the name implies. Either way - the tool is impressive and for the most part, the SEO industry is very pleased with it. That includes Aaron Wall who called it slick, despite being Rand Fishkin's biggest critic.

Read more about the tool at the SEOmox blog and test it out at opensiteexplorer.org.

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Disabling Right Clicking Should Not Hurt Your Google Ranking & SEO

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 2:41pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Optimization

A new HighRankings Forum thread asks if there is any downside in terms of SEO for using JavaScript that disables the ability to right-click on the page. The thread asks:

One of my company's sites has right-click functions disabled (yes, I realize this doesn't really stop people from stealing content - it wasn't my choice). I've noticed when I use a spider emulator (seo-browser.com) that our image alt tags appear to be invisible to the spiders. I can see the alt tags on the actual site, and I've verified that they are in the code, but they don't seem to show up for spiders. Could this be caused by our right-click disabling?

Most people in the thread say that it should have no impact on spiders crawling the site.

I then saw an older thread from Google Webmaster Help where Googler, JohnMu, said the same thing. He said and I bolded the key point:

Personally, I find the use of right-click-blocking JavaScript slightly annoying because there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use the context menu (eg to bookmark the page) and it doesn't really stop people from viewing the source (Ctrl-U brings it up if you don't want to use the main menu). That said, this is not something that would bother Googlebot :-).

Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum & Google Webmaster Help.

Bing's Auto Search Suggestions Gets More Current

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Microsoft MSN Search

The Bing Search Blog announced that they have now made their search suggestions more current. Now, Bing will update the search suggestions every 15 minutes or so, to take into account breaking news and current trends.

For example, the Australian Open is going on right now and here is me typing [aus] into Bing:

Google already does this with their search suggestions, so it is nice to see Bing go this route as well. Now, Bing will have to deal with questions about censorship of trending topics.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2010

Posted: January 20th, 2010, 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.

First Image for Jesus in Google Images is Offensive

Posted: January 20th, 2010, 3:13pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

If you search for [Jesus] in Google Images you may notice that the first image has a picture of Jesus smoking a cigaret, with a can of beer in his hand. Here is a picture of the search result:

A searcher complained about this at the Google Web Search Help forums yesterday. So far, there has been no reply by anyone, including a Googler.

I doubt Google will remove the image result. These types of issues come up fairly frequently. The latest one was when Michelle Obama's image was racist and Google did not remove it, but rather bought an ad explaining why the result was not removed. So I doubt Google will make changes to this image result.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Sometimes Google Does Know Best: Use It To Your Advantage

Posted: January 19th, 2010, 2:35pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Last week, I wrote about The Google Screw and how Google's "intention engine," as Tedster calls it at WebmasterWorld, can seriously hurt a business and the integrity of a solid search query. But Google is not stupid, they know what they are doing and they feel, for the most part, these types of changes will improve the overall search experience.

Tedster at WebmasterWorld has been one of the more vocal against Google telling you what you really wanted to search for. But he recently found a good use for it. Let me quote Tedster:

I helped a friend last week by cleaning up a smallish database (about 1,000 products) so that it could be used to generate web pages. The database was from his shipping facility and it was full of strange abbreviations so the field would print out on a small shipping document and a shelf label in the warehouse. So the product descriptions worked for the warehouse staff but they were far from doing the sales job they needed to do.
Google's intention engine did the job. I just pasted in that mishmash directly and I usually got back what I was looking for, or at least I made enough progress so that I could make a second try and nail it.

Maybe Google's idea isn't so far off the mark after all.

Pretty neat - he plugged in the weird descriptions from the client into Google and Google told him what he really wanted to use for titles and descriptions. Not a bad use for this, don't you think?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

iGoogle Porn: Still An Issue?

Posted: January 19th, 2010, 2:19pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Back in May 2009, we first reported of issues with pornography on iGoogle. Ever since then, there have been issues that popped up here and there. That is the overall issue with having user generated content (i.e. user generated gadgets).

The latest batch is in the form of "live cams" and the issue was submitted to Google Web Search Help forums recently, in an older thread. This batch comes up for a search on to do list in the iGoogle Directory. They were also submitted by the same user, Mandy. Here are some safe pictures:

There are several more and they all seem to be in the form of cams. I have a good blocking system here for this type of stuff, so the videos won't render on my computer. Here is a safe picture, what I find funny is that it is being monetized by Google ads.

In any event, Google was notified about this issue. Paul from Google said:

Thanks for letting us know -- we're investigating this now. I really appreciate your taking the time to bring these to our attention.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Mass Title Tag Changes: Google Slow Updating?

Posted: January 19th, 2010, 2:06pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion over how Google handles the mass changing of title tags.

In this particular case, a webmaster copied the structure, not the design, of a site to a new site. When they copied it over, they forgot to change the title tags, although the content, design and images are all unique from the previous site. Soon after, they changed the title tags to make them all unique to the content on those pages. Four months later, the title tags Google shows in the search results are the same as they were - i.e. the old, wrong title tags.

Since this is a WebmasterWorld thread, we do not know the specific site having trouble. So as you can imagine, it is incredibly hard to diagnose the issue.

jdMorgan, WebmasterWorld administrator, said:

The one thing that Google "hates" is large, sudden changes. So I'm going to recommend that you grit your teeth and wait it out instead of giving G yet another reason to think your pages are 'suspicious.' Build links, expand and update content -- anything productive to keep your mind off this embarrassing mistake, and suggest that an official "acceptance testing" program (with a formal list of things to check off, including and tags) be put into place for new developments so that this won't happen again.
Keep an eye on Googlebot, and once the pages in question have been spidered a couple of times, this situation should resolve itself. It's very hard to be patient and "do nothing," but that's what it takes in this situation; Working on the other aspects of improving the site will help -- both practically and emotionally...

Of course, if he wanted specific advice about his web site, he should go to Google Webmaster Help. However, many people avoid that inorder to keep their anonymity.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2010

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 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.

Martin Luther King, Jr Logo from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Dogpile & Othersin 2010

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 3:15pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

Every year, the search engines post special logos for Martin Luther King, Jr. This year is no different, we have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, Dogpile and others. MLK, Martin Luther Kind, Jr needs no explanation. It is a legal US holiday today and a day celebrated by many around the world. Here are the logos:

Google's MLK Logo:

Yahoo's Flash MLK logo:

Bing's MLK Theme:

Ask.com's MLK Theme:

DogPile:

Search Engine Roundtable:

Also see the 2009 MLK logos and 2008 MLK logos for a bit of the history with these logos and doodles.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google AdWords Certification Program Now With Four Exams?

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 3:03pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

If you go to the Google AdWords Certification Program Learning Center you will now see that Google is offering 4 exams, not one exam - to take and to earn your certification with Google AdWords. The exams include:

Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam
Search Advertising Advanced Exam
Display Advertising Advanced Exam
Reporting & Analysis Advanced Exam

There is actually a whole grid of courses you can review before taking the exams. I am not sure if you can actually take all four exams yet, but it seems like you will be able to do so soon.

We actually expected the tests to get harder over time, plus Google told us to expect this as well.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Maps Street Views Embed Broken For Some

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 2:53pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A Google Maps Help thread has reports of some map developers having issues embedding the street view versions of Google Maps on their web site.

The issue was first reported 9 days ago by a guy who runs StreetViewing.com. The old embeds are no longer working for him, so now he has to go in and replace all of those with the new code. That can take a lot of time.

Brian from the Google Maps team actually confirmed the issue on Friday and said he notified the team. Brain B from Google said:

Just wanted to hop in here and assure everyone that the team is looking into this issue. When I have information to share, I'll post it here.

Thanks for all of the detailed reports.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Selling SEO: Pitching Page Rank As a Metric Over Conversions?

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 2:44pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEM SEO Companies

An interesting Cre8asite Forums thread has discussion started by someone looking to hire an SEO company. The person is responsible to find an SEO company that can achieve his CEO's requirements. The issue this person has is that no-reputable SEO company would guarantee rankings (that is his qualifier). So if you cannot use rankings as a metric when trying to measure one SEO proposal to another, what do you use?

Clearly, in my mind, SEO is often (not always) about fixing sites that were built in an not search engine friendly manner. But SEO has adapted to conversions and increasing sales not just by building new leads, but building targeted leads that will convert.

The issue is, when a CEO hires someone to improve their search engine listings - they want to see improved search engine listings. If no-reputable SEO company can guarantee rankings, then what is one to do? How can you convince your CEO to hire an SEO company based on no guarantees? How can you hire an SEO company that will guarantee SEO rankings?

This dilemma is nothing new to the SEO space - but I thought I cover it again, in light of this thread.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums?

Add Real Time Content to Your Google Maps Listing

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

The Google Lat Long Blog announced businesses can now add real time information to their business listings. How does it work? It is honestly a bit tricky.

You would think you would "Edit" your business listing in Google Local Business Center. But no, instead you click on the "View report" link under the statistics section of that page. Then you are presented with a box to add a quick real-time message to your business listing (Places Page) on Google Maps.

On the top right of the statistics page is this box where owners can add information:

Here is me adding some info that may expire soon:

And here is that information showing up on my business listing in minutes:

Clearly, if you have a very active Google Maps listing, this can come in handy.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

Bing Showing Related Search Results By Default

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 2:22pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Microsoft MSN Search

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion about a search on Bing for [digital camera]. If you search on Bing for that query, you will not only see search results that match [digital camera] but Bing will show you other related queries and their search results.

Bing will show you 3 additional results for each of the following related queries, they include: Digital Camera Brands, Digital Camera Types, Top 10 Digital Cameras, Digital Camera Repair and Digital Camera Accessories. Here is a video showing this:

The interesting part here is that this is somewhat like the Google knows best but not fully. Here Bing is showing you what you queried for first and then shows you other search results that they think would be useful.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 15, 2010

Posted: January 16th, 2010, 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 :: January 15, 2010

Posted: January 15th, 2010, 10:20pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

This week we covered topics from SEO to topless Playboy girls. We discussed how to rank high in the Google real-time results with Twitter. We asked, when is Google launching the Caffeine index? Google added favorite icons to Webmaster Tools. Google added Fast Flip to Google News and we spotted a topless Playboy model on the home page. Google search spelling feature stole traffic from a web site. AdWords says your click through rate should be about 2 percent or higher. A new AdWords display URL policy requires subdomains for hosted domains. Google can transfer the campaigns you set up for clients, to their own accounts and leave you in the dust. If and when the Microsoft Yahoo deal goes through adCenter will take of Yahoo Search Marketing. Yahoo killed Shopping Search and outsourced it to PriceGrabber. Google changed home page fade in affect for the Haiti relief message. Google stood up to China and won't censor their results, the world is supporting Google. 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."

Search Topics of Discussion:
Google SEO:

Google Search:

Google AdWords:

adCenter & Yahoo:

Google & Haiti:

Google Now Shows Haiti Relief Message on Home Page Before Fade

Google China:

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

Google AdWords Display URLs for Hosted Domains Must Include Sub Domains

Posted: January 15th, 2010, 2:50pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

A new, and logical, Google AdWords display URL policy was announced this week. In summary, if you are on a public, hosted domain, you must show the subdomain that you are using in your display URL. For example:

Incorrect:

Destination URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com
Display URL: blogspot.com

Correct:

Destination URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com
Display URL: adwords.blogspot.com

Incorrect:

Destination URL: http://subdomain.wordpress.com
Display URL: wordpress.com

Correct:

Destination URL: http://subdomain.wordpress.com
Display URL: subdomain.wordpress.com

There is discussion, not much discussion, but some, at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums. As expected, the WebmasterWorld feedback, so far, is positive to this change, saying "this is how it should be." As expected, the DigitalPoint Forums feedback, so far, is negative to this change, saying "thats bad for adwords users."

Personally, it makes sense to have this policy and I agree with it in most cases.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums.

The Google Search Screw: Google Knows Best

Posted: January 15th, 2010, 2:40pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Imagine you have been in business, operating on the web for years now. Your name is unique and it ranks number one in the Google results, since it is unique. But then imagine a new site pops up that is similar to your name. Then soon after, Google decided that your name is really not what people want, instead, they want the other name.

In other words, they type in your business name and Google say - no no, you spelled it wrong, you want a competitor or another web site. Google then hides your web site and shows the competitor. How would you feel?

That is the story of a Google Webmaster Help thread. The owner of BrandFreek no longer comes up for a search on [brandfreek], instead, Google shows a result for BrandFreak and shows BrandFreak.com in the first spot. Here is a picture:

This can be pretty upsetting to the owner of the company and also hurt them financially. Google knows this. JohnMu at Google replied to the thread saying:

Thanks for posting! I'll pass your feedback on to the team to review.

I am not sure if Google will change the behavior of this search in the future, but I think they should.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Google Transfers AdWords Account from Consultant to Client in Dispute

Posted: January 15th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

You are an Google AdWords professional that sets up campaigns and manages those search ad campaigns for your clients. This is a pretty big business these days. But what if your client doesn't pay you for your work? You stop maintaining his account, right?

Yea, I know, you spent all that time setting up the campaigns, doing all the keyword research, testing various ad types and such. You spent countless hours, never to be repaid. But at least the client won't get this hard earned work, since it is under your account, right?

Wrong!

A Google AdWords Help thread has one report of Google confirming that they will often transfer the account to the client, if the client is the one who holds the payment information (credit card) in the account. So in this case, not only did the client get away without paying this AdWords consultant, they also took all the work by the consultant.

The consultant wrote in the thread:

I was hired by a business to do marketing for them so I decided to run a Google AdWords campaign and set it up under my Google account. I had a dispute with them and they then demanded that I hand over this AdWords account to them even though I set it up under my Google account name and that I had spent many hours beyond what they paid me to develop an effective strategy and had information was proprietary to how I marketed this business.
I just got an email stating that Google handed the AdWords account over to them. What are the rules that allow this to happen without Google contacting me first?

AdWordsPro Sarah, an official Google rep, responded:

Im not sure exactly what the rules and regulations are on this because it doesn't happen often. That said, if you were using your client's billing information in the account, we will almost always side with them. As long as they are paying for the clicks, we need to make sure they are protected.

Lesson learned? Protect yourself with contracts and other means before doing all that work.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

Google Now Shows Haiti Relief Message on Home Page Before Fade

Posted: January 15th, 2010, 2:22pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Everyone knows about the horrible events that happened in Haiti this week. The world has come together to help out, and that includes Google. A few days ago, Google placed a link on their home page, giving people information on how they can help out. The link said, "Information, resources, and ways you can help survivors of the Haiti earthquake." If clicked on, it took them google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/ with more information on how to help out.

But a day ago, that link was not included in the pre-fade portion of Google. By that I mean, Google's home page shows the search box, logo and search buttons by default and then fades in the navigation links. Prior, Google faded in the information about the Haiti relief efforts but today, Google is showing this information on first load, prior to the rest of the page fading in. Here are pictures:

Pre-Fade:

Post-Fade:

Why did Google change this? Well, it was brought up in the Google Web Search Help forums by someone and Jaime from Google took notice. Jaime from Google said:

jeretik -- thanks for bringing this up. We all share your concern for the victims of this disaster and I'm currently discussing the matter of the homepage link with the rest of the team.

This is a small but major change to the nature of Google's fade in home page.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Should Search Engines Be Immune to Copyright Infringement?

Posted: January 15th, 2010, 2:12pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

A new bill in the UK Parliament named the Digital Economy Bill [HL] 2009-10 is proposing to give search engines, such as Google, a form of immunity against being sued over copyright infringement. It is a bit more complex than that but overall, if you want your content out of the search engines, block them - otherwise, you can't sue them over copyright law.

A Sphinn thread is pretty heated over the topic. Primarily between Michael Gray and Danny Sullivan. Let me quote some of the conversation:

Danny Sullivan in response to Michael Gray:

Yeah, yeah, simmer down there troll boy :)
So the actual article this is talking about from The Guardian says this proposal also says:

The presumption (of having an automatic license) may be rebutted by explicit evidence that such a licence was not granted. Such explicit evidence shall be found only in the form of statements in a machine-readable file to be placed on the website and accessible to providers of search engine services.

In other words, this gives robots.txt legal backing. You block that way, search engines can't index you. Fair enough. I mean, that's how things have worked for ages with the respected search engines. But if some rogue spider copied you, you couldn't easily claim a copyright violation because robots.txt had no force of law. Now, you could sue saying they'd been restricted and still indexed your content.

Michael Gray in response to Danny Sullivan:

being a troll boy ;-) and not a lawyer I may be missing something, but this seems pretty clear...
In other words, Google would be free to copy everything - but a publisherblocking search spiders with a robots.txt file would be taken as withholding that right. An explicit "fair use" provision, which Google often cites against copyright-abuse claims, does not exist in UK law.

Google can copy whatever it wants, unless you block it with robots, so if you want to retain you copyright then you do so by slitting your own throat for search engine traffic. That just doesn't make any sense for anyone ... except google.

The debate goes on and on in the thread, so if you are in a troll/rant mood or if you just find the topic interesting, do check it out.

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 14, 2010

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

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's The Hold Up With The Google Caffeine Index?

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 2:50pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

About 6 months ago, the Google Caffeine public preview went live. In November, they took the Caffeine preview offline and since then, webmasters have been on their toes worried about when Caffeine will go live. We had rumor after rumor with speculation that it was live, as recently as a week ago - but each time, they were false alerts.

The question people are now asking in the long WebmasterWorldthread is where is it already? What is the hold up? A good question. For all I know, it may go live a minute after I post this and make me just look bad. But let me quote you one WebmasterWorld member:

Do you remember waaaay back in late Nov./early Dec when MC told the world that Caffeine was being delayed to "save stress on webmasters before the holiday" and it would be rolled out soon afterwards?
Do you remember what I said was the reason back then?

So here's the question for you, IF as MC said Caffeine was "ready" a month and half ago, where is it now?!

We're halfway done with January...what's the hold up?

A solid question and a question that can be asked. Google does not have to answer but it is a good question. Are there major issues with Caffeine? Are there underlying flaws that will prevent what we know Caffeine to be to be launched? Can the failure of such a launch make Google look somewhat inferior to Microsoft Bing?

All questions that Google's executives and PR team would hate to have to answer. But as time goes on, these questions will begin to be asked.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

I Now See Favicons in Google Webmaster Tools

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Two days ago, I reported that people were seeing favicons in Google Webmaster Tools. I personally did not see the favicons until last night.

Here is a picture from my Google Webmaster Tools account:

I like it and so do many others. It isn't a big change, but does help you find the right site in a batch of dozens or more.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums & WebmasterWorld.

Google AdWords Click Through Rates: 2% is Average But Double Digits is Great

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 2:25pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

I don't believe you often see Google AdWords representatives talking about click-through rates. But in a Google AdWords Help thread, I spotted AdWordsPro, an official Google representative, taling about averages.

In short, he said that a good average to aim for in an ads click through rate (CTR) would be 2%. But he/she has seen CTRs in the double digits for campaigns that are constantly tuned and tweaked by advertisers. Let me quote AdWordsPro:

On the other hand, to give you a point of reference to shoot for, an average CTR is probably in the neighborhood of 2% - meaning that for every 100 impressions, you would have received 2 clicks. I personally don't think that a CTR statistic is particularly meaningful or even valid until about 1000 impressions have been received, however.
Advertisers who have really taken the time to learn how AdWords works, and who spend lots of time managing their account and tuning things up often 'earn' a CTR in the double digits.

Then, once you become a little more comfortable with AdWords, then it is time to stop focusing mostly on CTR, and instead focus on ROI or your Return On Investment.

I have heard of incredibly high CTRs, especially for Google ads with thongs in them. But outside of that, you know what to generally aim for.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

If Microsoft / Yahoo Deal Goes Through: adCenter Will Replace Yahoo Search Marketing

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 2:14pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: MSN Microsoft adCenter

There seems to be a lot of confusion out there in the paid search ad space. If the Microsoft & Yahoo do end up closing their deal, which seems likely to me, Yahoo Search Marketing will no longer exist.

The Yahoo Search Marketing console and campaigns you currently run will be either automatically imported into Microsoft adCenter or you will have to manually make that change. Microsoft adCenter will power the ads on Yahoo, Yahoo won't power those ads.

A WebmasterWorld thread seems to have a lot of confusion over this point. Advertisers seem to not want to spend too much time on either adCenter or YSM optimizing their campaigns in fear that the deal will go through and that time would be wasted. I for one think that this is still going to take a really long time, so go ahead and optimize the campaigns. But if the deal does go through and they do begin the migration, the migration will be from Yahoo to Microsoft, not the other way around.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google China's Office Becomes a Shrine

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 2:04pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

If you happen to visit Google China, you may notice that there are people who are placing flowers and candles by their Google sign outside the building. There are actually a ton of pictures of this being done inside and outside of the Google China office on Flickr.

Here is one picture taken from DigitalPoint Forums.

This is clearly the reaction by some Chinese searchers on Google's decision to back out of China if China continues to censor them.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

Want To Rank High in Google's Real Time Search? Get More Twitter Followers

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 1:54pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A month ago, Google added real-time search results in the form of Tweets from Twitter and other real-time search related sources. Yesterday at Search Engine Land I covered an interview with Amit Singhal of Google via Technology Review. The interview explains how Google ranks those real-time search results - on some level.

Want to rank high in those Google real-time results? It seems like all you need is a lot of followers and you should be set.

From the interview:

"One user following another in social media is analogous to one page linking to another on the Web. Both are a form of recommendation," Singhal says. "As high-quality pages link to another page on the Web, the quality of the linked-to page goes up. Likewise, in social media, as established users follow another user, the quality of the followed user goes up as well."

Obviously, Google needs to figure out the value of the followers of followers, but that shouldn't be too hard in this equation.

Another interesting point was in regards to the use of hashtags in Tweets. The interview wrote that hashtags may "serve as red flags to lower tweet quality and attract spam-like content."

Of course, this does not mean anything you Tweet will show up in Google's search results. For that, they need to be trending topics, and a good way to see what is trending is to look at Google Trends.

Honestly, there are some interesting thoughts in the comments on my post at Search Engine Land.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorldand Google Web Search Help.

Google UK Showing US Based Spelling Suggestions

Posted: January 14th, 2010, 1:44pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

If you search at Google UK for keywords such as [search engine optimisation] or [personalised napkins] or the like, you will get US based spelling suggestions from Google.

Here are some screen captures:

The old S vs Z in US vs UK English.

As you can imagine, this is not just annoying for UK searchers but also can be a bit insulting. So far, Google has not commented in any of the threads I have seen report this.

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

Update: Google seemed to quietly fix this in the past 24 hours.

Update 2: Here is a statement from Google over 24 hours later:

We recently introduced a change to the spell correction feature on the google.co.uk domain. This change introduced a bug where we were suggesting American English spelling refinements. We have temporarily rolled back the change while we fix the problem.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2010

Posted: January 13th, 2010, 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2010

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 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 Adding Favicons to Webmaster Tools Site List?

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 2:51pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A DigitalPoint Forums thread has an image of Google adding Favorite Icons (favicons) in the site list. I personally do not see them, but here is a picture from the thread:

I am pretty sure this is new, because the favicons are not showing up in my Webmaster Tools console.

What does this do for you? Not much - but it does help you differentiate the sites in the list a bit faster.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

Google AdWords Refund Bug for Pre-Pay Advertisers

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 2:40pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

There are always complaints from Google AdWords advertisers about not being able to be refunded for one reason or another. A new Google AdWords Help thread reports the issue in detail, with the use of a video.

Google said there is a bug with refunding advertisers who have used pre-paid account. AdWordsPro Sarah said:

The reason you are unable to cancel your account is because there is a bug affecting some prepay advertisers that prevents us from issuing a full refund when you cancel your account. We are aware of the issue and should have it fixed shortly- at which time you can close your account and get your money back.

About 1 minute and 15 seconds into the video it shows the issue with getting a refund:

Again, this is a Google bug they acknowledge. They said they will fix it soon, but there is currently no ETA for that.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

Google SafeSearch May Block Graphic Dental & Surgery Images

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A Google Webmaster Help thread has the owner of NYCDentist.com (great domain by the way) complaining his images are being blocked by Google's SafeSearch filter.

He said:

I personally write and publish NYCdentist.com, which offers over 2,500 pages of free content in academic dentistry. The content shows dental procedures including surgery in detail based upon visitor choices. There is NO sexual content in all 2,500 pages

I didn't know this, but it does make sense, Google may block "particularly graphic or violent" images. And if you look at some of the images on that site, I think some of you may get a bit queazy in the stomach. But what is interesting to me, is that the dentists don't see it that way. I have a dentist right next to me in my office building. He borrowed my camera once to take before and after pictures. I had to email those pictures to him afterwards and let me tell you, they were extremely graphic!

In any event, Googler, Susan Moskwa said:

I'll pass this along, but FYI SafeSearch filters non just sexually-related content, but also stuff that's particularly graphic or violent. Some of your surgery photos may be graphic enough that they fall under our filtering criteria. I'll try to get some more feedback on this from the Image Search team. Thanks for reporting this here.

So technically, I am not sure where this would fall - but personally, I would not like to see these images come up for a search on [teeth].

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Yahoo To Kill Shopping API & Outsource to PriceGrabber, Not Bing

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 2:24pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Marketing

Yahoo quietly announced they are discontinuing their Yahoo Shopping API, because they are going to be outsourcing the Yahoo Shopping component of their site to PriceGrabber.com. Greg Sterling has excellent questions and observations about this decision. The main question is why isn't Bing going to power this search feature?

On a webmaster note, just look at the first comment in the Yahoo announcement:

This is very disappointing to me. Several of my web apps depend on the API it for their real-time data needs. Pricegrabber is not a replacement. I suppose this means I'm collaterally going to shut down my own services as well. A big sarcastic "thanks" goes out to the Yahoo team for this.

A WebmasterWorld thread both sympathizes with those in this trap and also somewhat mocks them. For example one said, "This is yet another lesson for lazy or naive webmasters that build their sites around the services provided by third parties (mostly by Google in these days)."

incrediBILL adds, "The most amusing part is it probably requires no maintenance to leave the API function as-is." httpwebwitch explained the other value in this API:

The Yahoo! Shopping API is/was a really good product, too. Well designed, with massive amounts of excellent data. One of the best data API's out there, IMHO - I've often used it as an example when teaching others about APIs and XML.
I have several apps out there that depend on it, and projects in development that also rely on it. All those projects will be scrapped.

This is not the first time some webmasters were 'burned' by using a free and open API.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Baidu's Domain Name Snatched by Hackers For Four Hours

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 2:09pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Search Engines

Imagine going to Google.com and seeing that it has been hacked and taken over by hackers? That is what happened to Chinese searchers, with their favorite search engine, Baidu. @mranti snapped a picture of the Baidu home page, when it was hacked:

The news can be found on Techmeme, but in short, it seems like they took over Baidu's domain name for about four hours. Now, when I go to Baidu.com it redirects me to http://202.108.22.5/, which is a server operated by Baidu.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Webmaster Tools Sends Out Google Ad Planner Ad?

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 1:55pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Back in 2007, Google released a message center in Google Webmaster Tools. It was used for penalty notifications, hacks, exploits, bandwidth issues, and many other webmaster oriented technical issues.

Today, I log into my Google Webmaster Tools account to find, what appears to me, as Google Ad Planner advertisements. Now, I am a big fan of Ad Planner, it is a really neat, free tool. But it just didn't seem incredibly webmaster related, on the technical side. I received about six of these "messages", each for a different site.

Here is what they said:

Increase Your Website's Visibility with AdvertisersJanuary 7, 2010
Dear Webmaster Tools User,

If your website accepts advertising, we invite you to increase your site's visibility with advertisers in Google Ad Planner, a free media planning tool used by tens of thousands of media planners and buyers. This is done through the Google Ad Planner Publisher Center, a section within Ad Planner that lets you take charge of your site profile.

THREE STEPS TO VIEW YOUR SITE PROFILE

To see how your site profile looks in Google Ad Planner, follow these steps:
1. Visit www.google.com/adplanner
2. Type your site's URL into the blue box that says "View a site listing"
3. Hit "enter" to get to your site's profile
If your site profile is not complete, don't worry, we have lots of ways for you to add information to the profile.

EIGHT WAYS TO UPDATE YOUR SITE PROFILE

Use the Google Ad Planner Publisher Center at www.google.com/adplanner/publisher to make your profile more complete. For example, you can claim your domains or subdomains, write a site description, provide a URL for advertising, and update your site's content categories and ad specifications.

You can also opt-in your site's Google Analytics data, invite additional users to edit and maintain your site, and promote your profile with a Google Ad Planner Site Badge.

GET STARTED

Sign in with your Google Account today at www.google.com/adplanner/publisher to get started.

-- The Google Ad Planner Team

I have some pictures here and here.

Again, this is likely useful information, but just doesn't seem all that technically relevant to the Google Webmaster Tools area.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Tools.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2010

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 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 Flooding Web With Nexus One Ads?

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 3:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

A WebmasterWorld thread has both publishers, advertisers and searchers complaining about the number of ads they see for the Google Nexus One phone on the internet. Yes, it is no surprise the Nexus One ads are shown on the Google home page. But they are all over every AdSense spot I can find. Of course, not 100% of the time, but extremely often.

Here are two pictures of the ads:

Incredibill, the moderator of the AdSense WebmasterWorld forum said:

I couldn't believe I was actually adding "google.com" into my competitive ad filter.

Have you gone to that extreme?

I wonder if I put a Google AdSense unit below this line, if it will show a Nexus One ad? It is contextual relevant, no?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Suggest Leads to 14 Year Old Stripping

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 2:49pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

We asked earlier today if Google should censor non-adult search suggestions. Google does censor out adult-oriented or illegal suggestions. But often they do not get censored unless someone really points it out in a public setting.

A Google Web Search Help thread points out the next upsetting search suggestion found on Google. Now, it isn't upsetting to me that Google is showing it, it is upsetting to me why Google is showing this. I'll explain in a bit. Here is a picture showing the search suggestion for [14 year old stripping].

Yea, Google is showing a search suggestion for [14 year old stripping.] Why? I guess because it is a popular query associated with the number 14. People who enter in 14 into Google are very likely to search for [14 year old stripping]. That is what is sad to me.

In any event, Google will remove the both adult-oriented and illegal search suggestion soon enough.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Update: Google has removed the search suggestion and updated the forum thread explaining why:

Thank you for alerting me about this inappropriate query suggestion. The phrase that you reported falls into the category of pornographic terms that we'd consider for filtering from query suggestions. Will let you know if there are any updates to share.

Playboy on Google News Fast Flip

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 2:40pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Google just recently added the Fast Flip feature to the News home page. Some love it and some hate it, but should Google be showing topless women from Playboy in the Fast Flip news feature? That is what someone asked at a Google News Help thread.

If you go to Google News Fast Flip and click on "most viewed" and scroll a bit, you will see Iga/Eva topless. Here is a picture:

Should that come up on the Google News home page? Should it come up in Fast flip?

The searcher in the thread said:

New feature 'fastflip' started last week and front page of playboy showed up, topless woman in underwear. How do we disable fast flip? Parental control software is not catching it yet. Thanks

I assume as Google gets their feet wet with Fast Flip they will get better at censoring out adult-oriented news items.

Forum discussion at Google News Help.

Poll: Should Google Censor Non-Adult Search Suggestions?

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 2:30pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Ever since Google suggest became the default at Google.com back in 2008, the search suggestions had led to some controversy. Most recently over religions suggestions such as Christianity or Islam. Plus a month or so back, we had the Climategate controversy. We do know that Google censors out adult search suggestions and I don't think anyone would argue with that.

However, do you think Google should censor out non-adult negative search suggestions? Such as those that appear negative to religious beliefs or make companies look bad. For example, a WebmasterWorld thread is discussing a French ruling which required Google to remove the search suggestions that had the word 'scam' when you entered in a company name. Should those also be censored?

Take my poll:

Should Google Censor Non-Adult Search Suggestions?(opinion)

I for one believe adult content should be censored there, as Google does. But I do not believe Google should remove the others.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Adds News Flip to Google News Home Page

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 2:12pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Google has added the news fast flip feature of Google News to the bottom of the Google News home page.

If you go to Google News and scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see this just added to the bottom:

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around this feature. One person liked it so much, they want it on the Google web results, not just news results. Another person said he hated it, so he hit the "X" to remove it right away.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 8, 2010

Posted: January 9th, 2010, 12:00am CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

This week, I try to get fancier with my video set up and integrate multiple video sources, including my monitor - let's see how that goes. I posted the Google webmaster report for January. There were rumors Caffeine went live, but it did not. More people are seeing the Google blue Jazz interface. Malware is becoming a bigger and bigger issues. Was there a Yahoo Search update or was it the paid inclusion results being removed? Google's local business privacy blunder caused some overall concern. Google may return the SEO and web design local pack? Bing says they are slow and recommends you spam Digg or Yahoo Buzz. Microsoft adCenter offered free clicks, well - not really. AdWords tests a CPA lead form and also click to call on mobile phones. Also, most PPCers have participated in bid wars, while most advertisers are not afraid to make changes to their accounts. Finally Googlers were working on New Years and Google animated their logo for Issac Newton. That was this past 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."

Search Topics of Discussion:
Google SEO

Google Search

Yahoo SEO

Google Local

Bing SEO

adCenter

Microsoft adCenter Offering Free Search Ads Over New Years?

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 8, 2010

Posted: January 8th, 2010, 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.

How Does Google Get Their Data For Ad Planner?

Posted: January 8th, 2010, 2:23pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

I think Google Ad Planner is pretty amazing and chock full of information. But to some webmasters, the information they have is either so accurate it is scary or totally off and worthless.

In a WebmasterWorld thread, Google AdSense representative, AdSenseAdvisor, replied to questions about where they source the data, how to opt out and what to do if the data is off. Let me quote what Google said:

To estimate website traffic we use a combination of two approaches: 1.) We extrapolate website traffic from sample data we collect from a variety of sources. For our sample data Google Ad Planner combines information from sources such as aggregated Google search data, opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in external consumer panel data, and other third-party market research. The data is aggregated over millions of users and powered by computer algorithms; it doesn't contain personally-identifiable information.
2.) Individual websites can opt-in their Google Analytics data to improve the accuracy of data displayed about their site in Ad Planner.

This methodology is similar to that of other 3rd party online measurement tools, which also use hybrid approaches that blend server side measured numbers with sample/panel based estimates.

Google Analytics Opt-in Data
@Cancellara - Did you opt-in your Analytics data into Ad Planner? We don't use your Analytics data in Ad Planner unless you explicitly choose to share it. So unless you've chosen to opt-in your Google Analytics data to Ad Planner, it's possible that the Ad Planner estimates are different than your Analytics statistics.

@Oxydada - When looking at your Analytics reports compared to Ad Planner, are you comparing US to US figures? Ad Planner by default shows US numbers while Analytics shows worldwide figures, so this could be the cause of the discrepancy.

@rashidjaved11 - Please file a ticket with our support teams and we'll try to help diagnose your issue. http://www.google.com/support/adplanner/bin/request.py

@aish1108 - If you've checked everything and you're sure your tags are on all your pages, then you should opt-in your data. The "low tag coverage" message is just a warning to tell people to check their tag coverage. It's possible that our check is making an error since we're basing it on Google crawl data and trying to detect your Analytics tags from the crawl. The data you see in your Analytics reports is what we'll display in Ad Planner

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Should You Ever Have More Than 5 Clicks To Get To a Page?

Posted: January 8th, 2010, 2:11pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Optimization

Most search engines find new pages by crawling links from other sites. At the same time, the more links to a page and the quality of the pages linking to a page, drives the quality of the page being linked to. These are all basic SEO principles.

This is why many SEOs place links to their most important internal pages, right off of their home page. Why?

(1) They want them indexed faster and typically one's home page is indexed more often than other pages (not always). So having a link from your most popular page to other pages, help the other pages also get indexed faster.

(2) Also your home page normally has the most amount of links to it, so typically has the higher link equity of all your page (not always), so linking to pages off your home page will funnel some of that high link equity to the pages you are linking to. This may result in a higher ranking for those pages linked to from your home page.

Again, all basic SEO principles.

The myth is having pages based in the root directory of your server results in higher ranking. That is not true, it is all about the click path.

That being said, does it ever make sense to require people to click and click, five or more times to get to an internal page? Since search engines will have to do the same clicking, it might take them longer to find the page and it won't pass the majority of your home page's link popularity.

JohnMu, a Googler, in the Google Webmaster Help forums discussed just that in less than a sentence. He said:

I'd have no problem clicking through 5-6 links to get to highly specific content if I needed it and your site had it.

Google knows that there is a logical site hierarchy. Google knows that there are deeper pages on a site that is important. As an SEO, it is not just about linking to them off your home page, but also about getting external links to those pages. And it is also about utilizing your other internal pages to get the search bots to bite them.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

What Time Is It In Bangladesh? Google & Yahoo Disagree With Bing & Ask

Posted: January 8th, 2010, 2:04pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Search Engines

When you ask someone what time is it, you normally don't have to second guess them. But when it comes to asking Google, Yahoo, Bing or Ask.com what time is it, you have to second guess them.

If you search [bangladesh time] at the four search engines, you will have Google and Yahoo telling you one time, while Bing.com and Ask.com telling you a different time. Who do you believe?

Google & Yahoo:

Bing & Ask.com:

So who is right?

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google: Christianity is Absurd & Stupid

Posted: January 8th, 2010, 1:53pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

I am using an extreme title here to illustrate a point. We have a searcher come to the Google Webmaster Help forums and complain about the search results for a search on Google for [christianity is]. The results are mostly informational but you have a few results which are negative. I cropped this image to show only some of the negative-like results:

The person said, "I have never been so mad in my life. We have enough problems in the United States without Google slamming Christianity!"

When will people learn that this is not Google slamming Christianity? Well, maybe what set this person off is that Google wouldn't say Merry Christmas on Christmas? But still, these are the Google search results. Brin, Page and Schmidt aren't sitting down and saying, hmm - I hate Christians and I want to place these results there simply to tick them off.

There are just so many cases like this, for all religions. It comes down to education, which is a hard thing to do.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2010

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 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 Results Now Going Live?

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 2:59pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

This is not a Caffeine update, Caffeine is not live. More coming soon.

There seems to be a lot of buzz going on at the forums about Google's Caffeine index going live on more and more Google data centers.

Let me give you some history on Caffeine. It went live as a public preview in August. Then in early November there were rumors of it going live before the holiday season. Matt Cutts said no way, it won't go live until after the holidays. But it did go live on a single data center, in the Google wild, in late November.

Now, it is after the holidays, after the new years and everyone is waiting for Google to flip the switch. Did Google flip the switch in the past twenty-four hours?

I am seeing tons of threads with people talking about major ranking changes. But there are only a few threads specifically thinking it is Caffeine related. We have threads at DigitalPoint Forums and an updated WebmasterWorldthread. The suspected data centers that Caffeine has been moved to, include:

I emailed Google, Matt Cutts and his team for confirmation - so stay tuned.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld.

Update: A Google spokesperson told me, "we have nothing to announce today regarding Caffeine." Basically, it is not live yet and when it does go live, they will let us know.

Google Sends Me & Others Wrong Local Business Center Reports

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 2:59pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

This is a pretty bad slip up by Google. The Google Maps and Local team seemed to have sent out a batch of updates on how well a business's Google Maps listings are doing, but to the wrong businesses.

Last night, just before 10pm (EST), I received an email from Google about how well my local business listing is doing in Google. The issue was, it was not for my business! It was for a place called Polk Mechanical based in Texas. That is exactly 1,576 miles away from my business's location and would take me a full day to drive to, according to Google Maps.

Here is how well Polk Mechanical is doing in Google Maps:

I am not the only one who saw this. There is a report of it in Google Maps Help forum, David Dalka got one, so did Mike Blumenthal and Danya Henninger.

I emailed Google about this and I hope to get an understanding of why this happened.

The data shared by Google here is not all that sensitive, but it is still data.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Update: Google sent me a statement, it reads as follows:

As you're aware, we send a monthly newsletter to our Local Business Center users, featuring product news and a glimpse at the Dashboard statistics which show the traffic Google properties drive to their listing. Shortly after sending the newsletter to a small portion of our users last night, we discovered that some emails included incorrect business listing information. We promptly stopped sending any further emails and investigated the cause, which we found to be a human error while pulling together the newsletter content. We'd like to sincerely apologize to all the business owners impacted and assure all our users that we're working hard to ensure that nothing similar will happen again.

Update #2: Google sent an automated apology to those who received other companies information:

Google Back Tracks a Bit on Dropping SEOs & Webmasters from Local Results

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 2:49pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

A week or so ago, we reported how Google removed SEOs from local pack in the search results. The move caused a pretty big debate in the industry where many SEOs felt this was a nail in the coffin for Google really hating the SEO industry. Personally, I think it is a fun debate, but I don't think all of Google hates the industry.

In any event, Joel H. from the Google Maps team updated the Google Maps Help thread with a revised statement, implying that Google may change their minds on this decision. He said:

I think I understand both sides of the issue: I understand that local search results can have a positive impact for some businesses. But I also see that some SEOs/web designers want their website, not a local listing, to be the primary destination. And I want to clarify that today we think this is a better user experience - to display primarily web search results for some of these queries. Using words in or near seem to be suggestive of a different intent. In the end, these search results will fluctuate as we fine tune our results pages to get the user the best answer.

Again, he said, "I want to clarify that today we think this is a better user experience." He also then went on to explain why the words in or near don't always provide a clear indicator of local intent.

In any event, if I had to guess - Google will wait to see how both searchers approach the missing SEO or web design related local packs. They will also see if SEOs and web designers calm down over this change. I assume if SEOs don't calm down about the change, Google might consider adding it back. But clearly, Google finds the categories either not relevant or too hard to handle from a spam perspective.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Microsoft Bing Says They Are "Fairly Slow"

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 2:42pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Microsoft MSN Search

One of the latest comments to come from Microsoft's Bing representative in the Bing Forums was that they consider themselves to be "fairly slow." Fairly slow at indexing new sites and new pages, that is.

Brett Yount, the Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, said in a Bing Forums thread:

It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow.

Did he just say that? For real?

So what is Microsoft's solution to get new sites into their index? Well, either spam Digg or Yahoo Buzz to be discovered or post a message in the Site not in index thread at Bing Forums and they will manually add you. Yes, there is a forum thread pretty much acting as a URL submit form. How 1995 of them.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Google Maps To Allow Businesses To Request Replacement Decals

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 2:17pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Google Maps Guide, Cecelia wrote in a Google Maps Help thread that Google will be enabling Google Local Business Favorite places to reorder lost or damaged Google QR code decals.

Ever since Google has been sending these out, I have seen threads from business owners asking how they can get replacement decals. For one reason or another, these people have lost or damaged the decals, and had no way to replace them.

Cecelia said in the thread:

We're working to create a way for you to request a new Favorite Places decal if something happened to the original one. In the meantime, please hold tight and know we're working on this.

Seems like it is coming soon, probably within the Google Local Business Center. When it does go live, we will let you know.

She also answered a frequently asked question:

Can a business which didn't receive a decal request one?
No, it is not possible for a business to request becoming a Favorite Place. Businesses can sign up for Local Business Center to become eligible and if they meet our criteria, they may receive a decal in the next wave.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help

Jill Whalen Takes a Look at 10 Past Years of SEO

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 2:05pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Engine Industry News

I love it when you have the old geezers (in the SEO world, that means 10 years old), take a look in the past at how the industry has evolved. Danny Sullivan has done it and so have others. I personally have only been covering search for over six years, but I have been involved in the web development since I was 16, which was in 1996 (yea, I turn 30 this year).

In any event, Jill Whalen posted her A Decade of 21st Century SEO. She goes through each year, starting in 2000, and pulls out her notes of SEO thoughts and best quotes for that year. I cannot summarize them all, and although it is 10 years long, it is a quick and fun read. So make sure to check it out.

There is a Sphinn thread on the topic as well. Danny Sullivan let the cat out of the bag that his decade in search post will be out over the weekend. He is currently up to 2007.

I'll just end this post with a quote from her ending remarks:

It's important to note that my ideal of SEO even before the year 2000 has always assumed that search engines will someday be perfect. Through the years, Google has given credence to my mantra during the times when they haven't allowed the crap-hat SEO stuff to work. By the same token, they have also made me look silly at the times when it does still work. My hope is that Google (or any other search engine) never gives up trying to find the best, most relevant results for their users – the searchers – because my SEO methods are based on that ideal.

There are only a few in this industry who have stood up, given themselves to the community for as long as she has. I won't name them all, but Jill deserves huge credit for not just practicing SEO for over 10 years, but for being involved in the industry, actively, every day, for the past 10 years plus. You can't say that about many people in the industry.

Thank you Jill.

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Google AdWords Contact Form Extensions Beta : CPC Based CPA

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 1:55pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

The PPC Hero blog discovered a new beta by Google AdWords named contact form extensions. It basically lets AdWords advertisers have the chance to show a lead capture form in the Google ads shown in the search results. Here is a picture, because a picture will explain this in a second:

As you can see, the ad has a plus box, clicking it, opens a lead capture form.

The interesting parts are that:

(1) Google is charging the maximum cost-per-click on each lead captured. So they are charging a CPC based price for a CPA-like lead.

(2) Google is handling the leads much like any lead management company. They make you go through them to contact the lead. In short, Google gives you a lead ID number, you call the Google 800 number and enter the lead ID number into the Google prompt. Then Google connects you to that lead.

PPC Hero has a lot more detail on how this all works. So check it out at PPCHero.com.

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2010

Posted: January 6th, 2010, 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.

Yahoo Search January 2010 Update?

Posted: January 6th, 2010, 2:46pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Optimization

There is a single report at a WebmasterWorld thread of a possible Yahoo Search update. Senior member, textex, is noticing changes in the Yahoo Search results, but clearly, the Yahoo Search Blog has not posted anything since December 15th.

Typically, when it comes to Yahoo Search updates - we normally see it being reported in the forums before Yahoo posts anything on their blog about it. Also, we typically see Yahoo Search update every quarter or so and the last update was in September 2009, so we are do an update.

Do you notice any ranking changes in Yahoo or a shift in your Yahoo referrals?

Note: As Yahoo loses market share, less and less webmasters and SEOs are concerned about Yahoo. So it doesn't surprise me to see such little activity in the thread at this point. I do hope the thread picks up.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Most AdWords Advertisers Are Not Afraid to Make Changes To Campaigns

Posted: January 6th, 2010, 2:34pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdWords

About a week ago, I ran a poll asking AdWords Advertiser: Do You Feel Paralyzed? It is based on a WebmasterWorld thread of Google AdWords advertisers complaining that they are afraid to make changes to their account, in fear of being banned from AdWords.

So I decided to see how wide spread those feelings were amongst advertisers, at large. I ran a poll and asked do you feel paralyzed? Here are the responses:

:: No, I am constantly making changes said 63 respondents or 42%
:: So So, I make changes but am concerned about consequences said 44 respondents or 29%
:: Yes, I am afraid to make changes said 39 respondents or 26%
:: Other answer... said 4 respondents or 3%

So there you have it, most advertisers are making changes to their campaigns and many are not afraid to do so.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2010

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 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's Blue Interface (AKA Jazz) Being Seen By More Searchers

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 2:42pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

In November, we reported on the Google Blue Jazz interface, a new Google user interface Google hopes to push sometime this year. Technically, it is not named Jazz, but I think that is the name that might stick. Only a few Google users saw the interface. But ever since the New Years period, I have been seeing more and more reports of users seeing the interface.

Here is a picture of the front page:

Actually, a reader sent me some crisp pictures of the various pages. You can see them all at [twitpic.com].

Anyway, the main thing here is that it is not "new" in that it was announced a few months back. But expect more and more people to see it in the upcoming weeks and/or months.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorldand DigitalPoint Forums and many other threads which prop up at Google Web Search Help.

Yahoo Paid Inclusion Still Live?

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 2:29pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Marketing

Yahoo's paid inclusion program was suppose to end on December 31st. But some are reporting in a WebmasterWorld thread that the paid inclusion results are still in the Yahoo Search index.

I have not looked myself, but this person is saying the paid inclusion (search submit) URLs are still in the index. He said:

I still see all the paid spots working.

This can be for two reasons:

(1) Yahoo's Search Submit product is still indeed active.

or

(2) Yahoo indexed the special search submit URLs and they show up in the free listings as free?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Malware in 2010 : Hiding in Google Search Results

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 2:11pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

No one will deny it, not even Google. Viruses, malware, spyware and so on, is currently a major issue on the Internet. Google and other search engines has stepped up how they detect and block malware from showing up in their index. But now, in 2010, expect it to get a lot worse. Expect those who produce malware to not look to just infect computers, but to look to get around Google's malware detection techniques and infect even more computers.

A WebmasterWorld thread has reports of more and more malware getting through Google's filters. For example, we reported a major malware breach using the keyword phrase blackberry news via CNN as some sort of 302 redirect malware hack. Google finally removed it, but I wonder how many computers were infected by that?

The WebmasterWorld thread is discussing several people's experiences with recent malware infections they or friends received via a Google search.

I know Google is doing what they can to prevent this, but it is hard to keep up. So just be wary of what you click on via email, Google, Facebook and so on. The best prevention is being smart.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Microsoft adCenter Offering Free Search Ads Over New Years?

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 2:03pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: MSN Microsoft adCenter

A WebmasterWorld thread and adCenter Forum thread have reports that Microsoft adCenter is reporting that clicks are not being charged. Yes, the adCenter reports are showing a $0.00 cost per click in their reports.

Here are some of the reports from the advertisers:

Whilst I'd love this to be real, looks like a bug as clicks priced at 0.00 aren't so common!

No matter which report I call up - I'm not being charged (according to the reports) for clicks.

Yes, I'm seeing the same thing. All reports yesterday and today show $0.00.
I'm guessing we'll see this resolved Monday morning. On the other hand, it might be Microsoft's way of thanking us for our business in 2009 ;)

Many suspect this is some sort of reporting glitch. I suspect so to. But it would be nice if it was not a glitch and Microsoft gave some of their advertisers a nice New Years bonus.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and adCenter Forum.

Update: I guess this is a bug, @adCenter tweeted:

Yep, Googlers Working on January 1st, New Years Day

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 1:51pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Many of those in the SEO, SEM, Web Design and related businesses find themselves working on holidays such as New Years and Christmas. I think it is more about the self-employed mentality versus it being computer related. Of course, computer related jobs tend to be good to work at any time. In any event, it is nice to know that you are not the only one working on these days. That is why we have Twitter and such. :)

I tend to report every year that I spot Googlers working on these holidays. Googlers were working on this past Christmas and they, JohnMu, was working on New Years day.

I spotted John posting not in just the Happy New Year thread but also in a couple webmaster related threads.

This is not new to John or Googlers, they did it New Years 2009 New Years 2008. Also Christmas 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006.

Happy New Year all!

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

Isaac Newton 367th Birthday Brings Google's First Animated Doodle (Logo)

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 1:36pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

If you visit Google.com today, you will see a Google Doodle (logo) of an Apple tree. If you wait a couple seconds, you will notice that one of the apple's falls off the tree. Yes, it is Issac Newton's birthday, 367 years ago today, and it is also the first ever (I believe) animated Google Doodle (logo) in history.

Here is a picture of the logo:

Want to see how it was/is animated? Here is a short video:

Everyone, I think, knows the story behind Issac Newton's theory of gravitation. So hence the apple falling off the apple tree. It is great to see Google have a Doodle for Issac Newton. But you got to believe there will be two points of controversy with this Doodle.

(1) Like always, there are plenty of other important events that occurred on January 4th

(2) Google has never really animated their logo in the past. Why now? They did recently have a neat I'm Feeling Lucky easter egg. Too see that click here.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help, DigitalPoint Forums and Google Webmaster Help.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: New Years Day 2010

Posted: January 1st, 2010, 6:00am CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

In our New Years day video recap, I covered the last week of 2009 in search at the Search Engine Roundtable. I first showed off the various logos for New Years by Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com and many others. Google also had a PageRank update on New Years eve. Google uses ccTLDs over server location. Google slapped SEOs by dropping them and web designers from the local pack. Bing's MSNBot is up to no good again, crawling fake file names. Google AdWords advertisers feel paralyzed. Increase your click through rate with women in thongs in your Google ads. Google launched the advertising professional search feature. Google had a weird bug related to the September 11 attacks. Finally, Google's porn filter had some issues this week. That was the last week of 2009 in search at the Search Engine Roundtable! Happy & Healthy 2010!

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Posted: January 29th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 7:25pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:10pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:04pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 29th, 2010, 1:54pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 3:18pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 3:06pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:54pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:46pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:29pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 2:18pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 27th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 27th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:59pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google AdSense

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:37pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:27pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:19pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 26th, 2010, 2:10pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:38pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:28pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google PageRankSERP Updates

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:19pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:09pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:01pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 25th, 2010, 1:42pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Google Optimization

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 9:15pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:24pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:18pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:11pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:03pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: January 21st, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 3:13pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Optimization

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 3:06pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Yahoo Search Marketing

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 2:49pm CET by rustybrick