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Google Traffic - Confusing Love and Money I recently came across an article that was bemoaning the fact that the travel blogging space has become overrun with low level search intended writing, and the actual feet on the ground, first hand, personal travel experiences are disappearing from the web. IMHO this author has confused love...
The Need For Better Communication From Google As a company, Google tends to favor automation, whether its in Adwords, organic algorithm updates, or dealing with the public in general. This automation makes them efficient and profitable, but it also makes it very hard when doing any sort of customer service interaction.
The Google Holiday Update Conspiracy For the past few years, right before the prime 4th quarter holiday selling period, Google pushes out an update that causes an upheaval in the organic SERPs. This has lead to talk of there being a Google Holiday Update Conspiracy, with the goals of making SEO look bad to drive up Adwords spending.
The Occasional Google Local Misfire Now, dont get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong"so wrong...
Can Wordpress Handle High Traffic Sites? Earlier this week there was a post on SEOBullsh*t that talked about how Wordpress was inadequate for anything more than a personal blog. Since Im a big advocate of Wordpress and use it more than any other platform, I thought Id provide a little balance to the argument. Lets get to the core of the argument. Can Wordpress scale to handle high volume sites with lots of traffic?
Google Could Be Hijacking Your Traffic Google has long been an advocate of "build great content"; however, in reality, it's turning into "build great content and if we like it we'll take it from you, put it on our pages, and deprive you of that traffic. Without compensation." Strong accusations, sure, but I'm willing to step up to the plate, put my money where my mouth is, and show you how it's being done.
SERPs Affected by Social Search Late last week Google announced it was graduating social search from beta and making it active for everyone. I got a heads up from Barry Wise of KnowEm a day later, and we spent some time talking about what this meant for marketers. I thought Id share some of our conversation with you.If you have a Google profile (like I do) and have...
Twenty-Five Areas Where Google Could Improve While Im well known for being critical of many of the things Google does Im also a power user of site and many of their tools. Being a power user gives me a unique insight and see some areas these tools could be improved. This post is written in the spirit of constructive criticism, since I know my posts sometimes get around inside of the plex
How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Hurt Google In the past week theres been a lot talk about the Wall Street Journal threatening to pull its content from Google and why its a good idea or sheer lunacy. Lets be clear. I think this entire thing is saber rattling on both sides and that Murdoch really just wants a piece of the action. I dont think he wants the Wall Street Journal to be out...
Bing with Google Whacking?
SES 2009 San Jose So last week I was at SES San Jose and thought I'd share a few thoughts... I've got no idea what the actual attendance for the show was, but it seemed a little bit lighter than previous shows, which I would mostly attribute to to the weakened US economy, but the show was well attended. The keynote from Clay Shirky was awesome, and really enjoyed it. As I've been...
What Does Google Know About Your Websites? If you happen to know anyone who has been building and publishing affiliate websites before 2000, chances are pretty good they operate with a different set of rules than affiliates today. Number one, they build and develop isolated little pockets on the web, they do very little interconnecting of websites, and they try really hard to keep google from knowing they are associated with those websites.
Wrapping Up SMX Advanced 2009 Last week I attended SMX Advanced in Seattle and thought Id share my thoughts about it. Whats the single most important thing I got from...
Was Google Wrong? Earlier this week Danny Sullivan and many others noted that MSN and ASK did a much better job of reporting the oscar winners, than Google did.
Google Tracking Study
Google Guide to SEO and Social Media I was reading Googles guide to SEO (pdf) , and its actually pretty good from a website or business owner perspective. However heres a quote I found...
Getting the Date Wrong on Old News Stories Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news story. In that particular incident Google news picked up a 6 year old story about United Airlines filing bankruptcy which upset the stock market for that particular stock. Ive seen things like...
Advanced Link Building and Pagerank Will Never Die One of the difficult things of trying to share ideas, or teach a concept to large group is the different levels everyone is at. What some consider advanced others consider intermediate.
Interesting Advanced New Search UI Viewzi has some interesting search UIs that I think advanced users might actually use. Unlike Cuil I dont think they spent 30 million to end up with a product that thinks the best picture...
Can We Get a Clear Cloaking and First Click Free Explanation One of the more common questions I get from people is how do I show my paid context to search engines, but not to non-paying customers, and staying within guidelines.
Google Loves Wikipedia - Even the Empty Pages
Google's Two Tiered Internet World Sinks to a New Low Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone...
Prisoners of War in the Battle for Paid Links Yesterday I came across a post from Dazzlin Donna entitled Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished, there are several points in that post worth noting and discussing in more detail.
Google Knols and Opportunity Since I spent the early part of the week discussing how Google Knols will ruin the internet, I thought it might also be fun to discuss potential ways you can use...
Is Matt Cutts Pulling the "I Did You a Favor" Card Cmon Matt you either do things because they are the right thing to do or dont do them at all, I dont think you want to get into the Googles did you a favor...
Site Links and Search Volume One of the things that I admire about the Google algo is its ability to learn and adapt based on incoming data. For example when search volume for a certain keywords reaches a certain volume words that were originally mis-spellings become real words. Today I came across an example of this logic being applied to site links.
Google Open Social I'm Disappointed I Think So am I the only one confused/let down/disappointed by Google open social? I mean like I actually thought Google/it was going to do something other...
Do You Want Your Ancillary Pages in Googles Index You have to ask yourself this question, is there information on any of those pages that I want someone to be able to search for in a search engine? I really cant think of too many good reasons youd want your terms of service or privacy policy in any of the search engines. Do you want your contact us page in the search engine, if its just an email form probably not.
How Google Desktop Can Drive traffic to Your Website Recently I was discussing how the disparity of numbers in analytics was causing me some aggravation. After digging a little deeper I think I found part of the source of my frustration...
Universal Local Search and Direct Navigation So heres an interesting little discovery, type the following into your FF address bar, Museum of Modern Art.
How Wordpress Makes Comments SEO Unfriendly I love wordpress I really do it makes it really easy to publish, however the wordpress developers really need some help sometimes. It seems when there is a choice to make things SE friendly more often than not they make worst choice possible.
Sullivan's Sphinn.com Launches Danny Sullivan's new social website Sphinn.com launched today. I was one of the beta tester so I had a chance to take a look at the site and kick the virtual tires.
"This is Not an Update" C'mon Matt do we really have to have this semantics debate every time something gets changed? The this is an update, that was a data push, the other thing was a xoogler sneaking into the building...
It Isn't About Buying Your Way to the Top When I try to combat the Google paid linking FUD one of the retorts I quite often get is "people shouldn't be able to buy their way to the top". I find this naive belief that business is egalitarian really very quaint.
SMX Advanced Wrap-up I got back from SMX Advanced late Wednesday night, and while I'll spend the next few days playing catch up here are some of my overall impressions of the conference.
Do W3C Compliance & Accessibility Impact SEO? Douglas Karr sent me a question that I get asked pretty often so I thought I'd share it with you here...
Don't Become a Google Traffic Addict Recently I was doing a bit of research on personalized search for two different projects (I love a bit of convergence) and I had a revelation.
Matt Cutts Wants You To Help Fight Spam If you needed any further evidence that Google is ramming personal search and Google accounts down your throat for their own self interests...
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