Ads Rile Google? Bah. What about we Humans?
This caught my attention. Google May Penalize Your Site for Having Too Many Ads published in SearchEngineWatch states Google is looking at penalizing ad heavy sites that make it difficult for people to find good content on web pages, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, said yesterday at PubCon during his keynote session. The key point Google appears to want to make is that anything that prevents people from reading content concerns them. The article goes on to say, Google has...
Read MoreGoogle’s New SearchWiki Disappears
Now you see it, now you don’t. Whatever the situation, SearchWiki has disappeared from view and nobody is quite sure why. Updated: Google claims it is a “bug” and are working to restore SearchWiki now.
Read MoreGoogle Adds Promote and Remove Buttons to Search Results
It’s past midnight and just as I begin to think I should get some sleep, I get word of this: Promote And Remove Buttons In Google at Cre8asiteforums. Google’s “JohnMu” weighs in on the discussion at Cre8asiteforums. Sooo, yes. I took screen shots. I can move my own web site up and down my SERPS pages. From Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page SEO Implications? Google emphasizes that changes made in the SearchWiki interface will have...
Read MoreToday’s Finds – Food for Thought
I enjoyed some blog posts this week from people I’m not as familiar with. One of them wrote about the need for search engine marketing and/or Internet education in schools and universities. Another looked at the “SEO Rock Star” theme in a different way. More on them below. It’s been an exciting week too. Cre8asiteforums loses three moderators and gains two new ones. Both are women, well known and respected in the search marketing industry. We’re celebrating...
Read MoreToday’s Finds – Go Get ‘Em Tiger
I haven’t given in to Twitter yet because I’m stubborn. Maybe I’ll eventually give into Twitter because I’m curious. Not being a Twit makes me feel old. I appear to be in the minority and boring. Am I old and grumpy? Here’s some things not Twittered by me. Defending The SEO Castle Danny Sullivan addresses a A Bad Month For SEO’s Reputation. As always, he’s a genuine charming Prince. Lisa Barone walks the castle hallways wondering… Does The...
Read MoreToday’s Finds – Feisty Friday
Feeling frisky? Here we go… Why Jason Calacanis For a Third Time at SES? Because silly. Everyone in the SEO industry deserves to be paddled. And by golly, it’s worth paying for. Kinda like paying to be tied up and tickled to death or hot wax being slowly dribbled onto your chest, just for fun of course. Even More Advice for Startup CEO’s Rae socks it to Rand and Andy. I’ve never had a good experience with a CEO. In my experience they started out as idealists with good...
Read MoreToday’s Finds – Women Rock
My “Today’s Finds” has fizzled into a “Oh, that looks good, let’s keep that” habit where links get tossed into a pile for later. More and more of my route has been culled back so I’ll have more time for “real work” and family obligations. Not to mention I just get burned out or simply bored so much faster these days. What’s up with that anyway? On to the haystack… Women Rock Out of the blue, Sarah Bird, Esquire, shows up. I...
Read MoreToday’s Finds – Web Site Design, Women, Tech & Heart, Jan. 4
Today’s blog crawl results: Take a jump to the left – The Case For Right Navigation – Yay! Or Nay!, Get in here and weigh in! Anybody have before and after analytics for a site that received a left to right nav switch? Take a jump – Google has an interesting program going on: Google Grants Who knew? Future Internet Technologies for Dummies – Cre8tive Tomorrow My favorite horse in this race is Microsoft’s Silverlight. Again it is a browser plugin that allows...
Read MoreToday’s Finds – Search Engine Marketing Jan. 3
Today’s travels took me to: No Nonsense Debra – Will The Real Search Engine Blog Please Stand Up? Come on guys, you want us to follow your webmaster rules then make it official by posting them in one place, on your company blogs. Let’s get rid of the FUD, the crude, and the mud associated with near-miss comments by people trying to share. No Nonsense Aaron – Why SEMPO is Worse than the Defunct Search Marketing Associations SEMPO saved my life. If they hadn’t sent...
Read MoreToday’s Finds: Usability, Accessibility Jan. 2
Today’s picks: Usability According to USNews, in 31 Best Careers for 2008, usability/user experience specialist is on the list. Cre8asiteforums thread discusses what to do when a form or Internet application isn’t working. Login Form Design looks into ways to communicate bad news in a satisfactory, user friendly way. I liked this: Focus if You Want Great Usability. John writes: If you talk to people who do great work, they will tell you that there is dedication based on the inner...
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