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 [...]
Since I started using Google Reader I play with it quite a lot on a daily basis. Besides the obvious minor bugs I have discovered, you can also do all kinds of things with it, e.g. spy on people. Recently, while subscribing to more blogs, I have noticed the following:
This is what you normally post [...]
I’ve been looking through my feeds in Google Reader when I noticed that my previously shared items have “Shared by: you” next to them. Well, it appears that this is the sign of what has just been announced on Google’s official blog:
…starting today, your friends will be able to reply to shared items with comments, [...]
It just caught my attention that Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool now has this interesting option in its filters:
Yes, as testified by the above screenshot I took, Google external keyword tool now offers you to include adult content in your keyword results. This is something people have been having trouble with for a long time, and [...]
This is the first of a series of posts about Google’s tools and options for webmasters - I plan to do several such posts about most popular features webmasters use as often there is misunderstanding of how these tools and features work.
Sometimes site owners believe it necessary to disable Google cache on their sites or [...]
Those who know me are aware of the fact that I like messing with international markets. Now, Google may or may not be the search engine of choice for non-English speaking markets (what we know about Google’s share of the search market is mainly true about the English-speaking market - elsewhere results may differ), but [...]
