I must confess: I am pretty conservative. Not to the point of totally not accepting any changes – but if there is no real pressing need to change anything, I won’t be looking to change it. Moreover, you can guess I am not typically particularly happy when a change affects something that was well usable [...]
Google has announced its switch to SSL by default for search for logged in users and it immediately became a big topic of discussion and even outrage for the SEO community. Here’s a detailed explanation of what this move means by Danny Sullivan. Here are some SEO reactions across the web to these news. Main [...]
Google +1 button for sites came out today and if you were signed up to receive the announcement you could get it right into your email inbox, otherwise you can see the setup page here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/ (official announcement on Google’s blog).
What do we know about this beast tho? Here are a few things I noticed [...]
Google has just launched its instant search with a great buzz around it (even a promoted trend on Twitter).
People’s reactions differ, some like it, some do not, others (like Steve Rubel) predict that it will be the end of SEO. Others (like Brett Tabke in that post’s comments) argue that it “opens the door to [...]
Google’s updated interface has finally been rolled out across all the datacenters so I thought I’d check how it affected the “buy Viagra” SERPs.
“Everything” results are pretty traditional for this query – they are just regular search results. Highlights: #1 is a spammed .edu with a redirect. #2 and 3 are online pharmacies with 37,000 [...]
My friend Paul a.k.a. SEOIdiot has drawn my attention to the fact that Technorati places Google Ads on their home page and what’s weird is they are all seem linked to Technorati itself! However, having looked deeper into it (as deep as the source code), I noticed they are fake Google ads – the source [...]
As some of you who were not too busy celebrating already know, Google has surprised us with a toolbar PageRank update just before the New Year. As a result, I have just updated my Directory Marketing Reborn ebook – 4,700 directories listed in it now have the most recent PageRank.
How did this PR update treat [...]
Webmasters and site owners, beware!
Lately I’ve been getting spam emails posing as correspondence from Google Adwords. They go like this:
We detected irregular activity on your Google AdWords Account.
Please use the link below to verify your account immediately:
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=adwords
But the actual link leads to the phisher’s domain instead of Google. Of course when you enter your account [...]
Look at the source code of Google’s SERP page and you’ll see the following:
<h2 class=”hd“>Search Results</h2>
However, on the page you don’t see this bit displayed anywhere. Sure enough, you won’t see it because the stylesheet makes this bit invisible:
.hd {
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
position:absolute;
top:-1000em;
width:1px;
}
And mind you, this is not the Ajax bit that can be hidden or shown by [...]
Patrick Altoft has voiced his guess about a change in Google referrer strings. It appears that Google now adds the ranking data to the referrer string (for those less technical, the Google SERPs page a visitor has arrived from to a site):
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=flowers&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw
Perhaps the cd=7 (click detail = 7th?) is the ranking and ct=res (click through [...]
