Are Google’s E-Commerce Changes a Good Thing?
By Ninja Matt As much as I like to rag on Google when I see the occasional crap site with 100,000 exact match anchor text links from 50 domains beating sites that follow Google’s guidelines, I don’t envy them. For one, the vast majority of sites created every day are spam and must be filtered […]
- 06-14-2012
Google Search Terms of Interest, Penguin Update, Is Google God?
Google’s Penguin Update, and some Jim ramblings about search terms of interest and asking if Google is God…. I was doing some reading last night when I came across the url, the site that was selling payday loan links within spun content that didn’t make sense that was mentioned by Matt in his post about […]
Ideas on the Google Over Optimization Update from WMW
When ever there’s a big Google update, like the Over Optimization / Webspam update that going on now, I tent to head over to webmasterworld and read what SEO’s are saying…yea, a lot of time it’s noise…but it’s the gems that keep me focused on reading through everything..and tonight I found a few gems there. […]
- 04-25-2012
Buying Spamming Links to Penalize Sites by @jimboykin
I couldn’t decide if I should call this post Can You Penalize a Site in Google buy Buying Spammy Links to it? or Getting to #1 by banning everyone above you. Last week, some people decided that they didn’t like Dan Thies (even though I’ve always thought he was a great guy….his book Search Engine […]
- 04-25-2012
Advice: Google Over Optimization Webspam Update
Jim’s thoughts on the Google Over Optimization Webspam Update Google’s updating, look for a few minutes, then get back to work. The sky really isn’t falling, Google’s just going through some growing, and we might have to feel some of the pains. Lee point over to Matt Cutts, where Matt mentions: …we are constantly working […]
- 04-25-2012
Link Building and the Bigger Picture with Google
The 40 changes that Google announced last week are a little of what SEO dreams are made of. Not the changes themselves necessarily, which in some cases are significant, but it’s largely exciting for the insights they give. The peek we get behind the curtain in posts like this or like when we got 23 […]
- 03-08-2012
Panda 3.2 Refreshes: Hope for the Future?
Yesterday Search Engine Land reported confirmation from Google that Panda 3.2 happened about a week ago. After a fairly long break it seemed another change was imminent at some point. But what’s interesting about this report is that Google noted this as a “data refresh”. So what does that mean? Well, some individuals in Webmasterworld […]
- 01-27-2012
- Google, Panda Update
Google says “Add 3 ad units to Prominent Sections of your Pages”…so we can penalize you with Panda!
I have Google Adsense on some websites I own…and each month I get messages in my adsense account that look just like this….scroll down to see their email they send me every month…. Back to Jim’s Rant: This is just deplorable in the age of the Google Panda Updates! How can Google still hand out […]
- 11-17-2011
- Google, Panda Update
The SEO Mirror Test – Is Your Website Really Breathing??
A while ago, while on a flight somewhere, I forget where now, I picked up a book titled The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing by Jeffery W. Hayzlett. You know those little airport micro bookstores where you try to kill part of your 3 hour layover, yeah, one of those. This particular book […]
- 06-27-2011
- Google, .Search Engine Optimization, Tips and Tricks
Google Panda Update: Machine Learning and Tree Structures, oh my!
By Ninja Bonnie Machine learning is using a computer to recognize patterns in data, to then make predictions about new data, based on the pattern recognized or learned from prior chosen training datasets. One of the ways that Google uses machine learning algorithms in search is to analyze historical data from the logs they keep […]
- 06-07-2011
