Search Engine Musings

Ethical internet marketing in an unethical world

bill — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:44:43 +0000

I’ve never been a great fan of television but this last week or so I’ve been down with flu and often unable to sleep for coughing, but when I wasn’t in bed I had very little concentration to do any work that I felt I could rely on, so had to resort to the dreaded [...]

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PageRank Distribution and Navigation Systems

bill — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:27:25 +0000

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

bill — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:03:22 +0000

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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Who’s feeding the spammers with information?

bill — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:09:01 +0000

Spam. We all get it, but for a long time I’ve been nursing a wee suspicion that it’s a bit too well targeted. Over the years I’ve seen a number of odd “coincidences” – spam from people with names very similar to friends of mine, subject lines extremely similar to various subjects I have interests [...]

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Constant change needs constant rethinks

bill — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:36:35 +0000

The last few months have been a whirl of business development, networking, new clients and juggling time constraints – not to mention trying to keep up with Google’s ever-changing activities. So maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise to read my own main website and find loads of things that I need to rewrite and [...]

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More Google Geolocation oddities

bill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:24 +0000

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

bill — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:32:33 +0000

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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Bing and Twitter could shift the search landscape

bill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:49:33 +0000

As Danny Sullivan has just announced Microsoft’s Bing is launching has launched a Twitter Search system www.bing.com/twitter which includes a front page featuring a hot-topic cloud and list of top tweets. This gives Microsoft a major boost in the increasingly important area of real-time search, an area in which Google is perceived by some to be [...]

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Webmaster Tools drops the pixie dust

bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:41:09 +0000

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?

bill — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:16:47 +0000

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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