Feb - 16th
Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now?
Posted at 8:59 am | Filed Under Google, lackofmeds, MSN, On The Ball-ness, search engines, SEO
Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a section of her traffic logs that were showing some odd information. According to what was recorded there her brand new, as of yet unlinked-to website was ranking on the first page of Google for the single keyword, [free]. If she actually had managed to rank for that [...]
Feb - 1st
Google Fails 5th Grade Math Test
Posted at 8:58 pm | Filed Under bad research, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines
So, I think I finally discovered the cause of global warming. No, for reals. From what I can tell, miss Mother Nature started using Google Calculator in helping her figure out what kind of weather she should serve up to us. Now, if she were trying to bake a cake, or perhaps get driving directions, [...]
Jun - 12th
Dear Google, Both Yahoo and Bing Crushed You Today
Posted at 8:50 am | Filed Under Google
Dear Google, I ran a search today. It was a real search. In other words, this search wasn’t something I was researching as a search professional. This wasn’t a search for one of the high keyword value phrases. This was just me … being an ordinary user … wanting to find some information. And what [...]
Apr - 16th
Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS
Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, web design
Today over at ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez wrote an article on how Google was gaining ground on their share of the search market. In the article she talked about the latest buzz from Google Analytics blog having to do with changes to the way Google.com handles clicks in their serps, which were a implemented as result [...]
Mar - 13th
Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO
Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]
Feb - 2nd
What Will *Really* Break If Google Switches To AJAX…?
Posted at 11:26 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, web design
On Friday I wrote a piece on how it looked like Google was testing AJAX results in the main serps. Some discussion followed as to whether, if this change were to become a widespread permanent one, this would affect Firefox plugins that existed (definitely some existing ones would stop working), break some of the rank [...]
Jan - 30th
Google Web Search Goes Completely AJAX
Posted at 10:28 am | Filed Under coding, Google, nerdiness, SEO, web design
Yes, I know… Google has been offering AJAX driven results through the API and other services for ages, but now they have rolled that out to the main Google Search. It appears to be only on Google US (I tried manually switching to Google UK, and it redirected me from the AjAX version to a [...]
Jan - 21st
SERPs Scrapers, Rejoice! Matt Cutts Endorses Indexing Of Search Results In Google!
Posted at 5:39 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO, the prez
That’s right… today Matt Cutts completely reversed his opinion on pages indexed in Google that are nothing more than copies of auto-generated snippets. Back in March of 2007, Matt discussed search results within search results, and Google’s dislike for them: In general, we’ve seen that users usually don’t want to see search results (or copies [...]
Jan - 12th
How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts
Posted at 8:39 am | Filed Under apprentice, blogthropology, coding, Google, how-to, SEO, tutorial, web design
Adding images to your blog posts can make them much more visually appealing to your readers. This in turn can increase the likelihood that someone will link to that post or subscribe to your feed, which will of course in the long run help to improve your rankings and traffic. The internet is chock full [...]
Nov - 21st
Matt Cutts, If This Paid Link Were A Snake It Would Have Bitten You In The Ass
Posted at 8:53 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media
Wednesday TechCrunch posted an article about a new ad product launched by MediaWhiz. The name of the product is InLinks, and it involves people being able to purchase anchor rich text links embedded into content in a way that is supposed to give it a “natural” feel. Michael Arrington called the product “insidious”. His whole [...]
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