Category Archives: Google

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PageRank Distribution and Navigation Systems

January 22, 2010 – 2:27 pm

Ok, this post is aimed at SEOs rather than a general audience, and is something I’ve been mulling over for quite some time without getting round to posting about it. I got the nudge to finally do so from a post on Search Engine Land – PageRank Sculpting Leaves NoFollowed Tags Behind .
In that article [...]

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Google site command oddities

January 2, 2010 – 3:03 pm

For some time I’ve been noticing irregularities in the results of the information that Google provides through the various commands and through the Webmaster Tools facility. Of course we all know the link command has been hopelessly broken for many years and frankly I don’t know why it’s still there, but the site command was [...]

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More Google Geolocation oddities

November 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm

Sometimes Google really puzzles me. I just did a search from the UK, using Google.co.uk, selecting UK-only results, for “chatsworth bed”. (I was checking to see how Chatsworth bed was doing against the competition.) The Local results that Google inserted into the serps after the third natural result were:
Local business results for Bed near Chatsworth, [...]

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Google through the looking glass

November 3, 2009 – 9:32 pm

My last post discussed changes in the search landscape but it seems Google is busy changing both the business landscape and the real landscape.
A couple of weeks ago we had SEORoundtable reporting on them producing some very strange results in their search engine – searches in Google for “Google Ireland” were producing Google New Zealand [...]

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Webmaster Tools drops the pixie dust

October 16, 2009 – 12:41 am

In the last few days there have been some additions and one removal from Webmaster Tools. The removal is in some ways the more interesting for what it might signal for the future – Pagerank is no longer being mentioned.
Now it was never much of a feature – they told you if you had a [...]

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Who’s side(wiki) are they on?

September 28, 2009 – 12:16 pm

Google have now released something they’ve been beta-testing for a while – SideWiki is a commenting system built into the latest incarnation of the Google Toolbar. Basically what is does is shows a sidebar in your browser where it lists any comments that anyone makes about your site. Systems designed to do this sort of [...]

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