http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/382673280/018150.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=SFBp2t"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=SFBp2t" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=SGcALL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=SGcALL" border="0"></img></a> <a href= http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/382356899/018149.html A High Rankings Forum member who has been working on a yearlong SEO agreement is now facing new management with his client and they're requesting a refund for services (mostly because some project deliverables weren't actually delivered). Should this SEO... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=H9rhNj"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=H9rhNj" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=VQEGwL"><img src="http http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/382342815/018148.html Yesterday, we covered the launch of Google Chrome, its new web browser. Just a day later, we have already spotted a Google Group dedicated to Google Chrome Help issues with a few Google employees working to solve problems (Google Chrome... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=VbMRwW"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=VbMRwW" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=3GgUVL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburne http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383216985/018157.html It has been confirmed via a WebmasterWorld thread that many search ranking checking tools have been working over the past day or so. Just about a month ago we reported about the issues people were having with WebPosition Gold and... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=x89dFg"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=x89dFg" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=4R67yL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383282434/018159.html Sometimes it's better to do SEO for a site before it's launched. Such is the case for a High Rankings Forum member who is looking to build up his site's presence before it's actually live for the masses. How do... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=8zGb3s"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=8zGb3s" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=eGN5gL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRound http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383274455/018158.html In July, Dave Naylor spotted a "Twitter loophole" in the bio section of Twitter: Twitter nofollows users' web sites but links in the biography were actually not nofollowed. When Matt Cutts read the post, he notified Twitter's staff about the... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=gjSgQa"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=gjSgQa" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=wbDd7L"><img src="http://feeds.feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383203492/018155.html Google's web browser, Chrome, launched two days ago and it was missing one major feature that SEOs took notice of. That feature is the PageRank indicator found in the Google Toolbar. But why is it missing? Is it just a... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=4s0Rda"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=4s0Rda" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=K8Su5L"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEng http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383577087/018161.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=eFUL9A"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=eFUL9A" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=0WXCtL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=0WXCtL" border="0"></img></a> <a href= http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383208423/018156.html Back in February, I spotted how Ask.com was showing up to five Google search ads above the organic search results. It only happened when using Internet Explorer on a PC, because (I guess here) the Ask.com team didn't want to... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=1OGId7"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=1OGId7" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=0AB9wL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Sea http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/383293085/018160.html This month, there are already a lot of different observations from the WebmasterWorld discussion on Google SERP changes. Forum members have noted that Google is looking for more fresh results and is specifically weeding out old and outdated pages. One... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=nMOHDY"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=nMOHDY" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Qt7y3L"><img src="http:// http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/the-hypocrisy-of-google-nofollow/ Ok, so I was just reading the official Google blog today about their new 3D virtual experience product called Lively when I noticed some big red lines. Anyone who uses the SEO for firefox extension knows that red means the ‘nofollow’ attribute is being used on a link. So what are Google applying the ‘nofollow’ attribute to ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/google-keyword-trademark-policy-change-are-you-prepared/ Ok so the 5th of May lift on Google keyword trademarking date is nearly here. Are you prepared? Are your clients? Are you going all out aggressively to bid against competitors trademarks?. Are you going to start bidding against your own brand as protection?. Perhaps a mixture?. Or are you going to wait and see what your competitors do? Looks ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/why-im-not-a-fan-of-submitting-sitemaps/ This question seems to come up a lot still and while I believe sitemaps in general can be great for helping search engine spiders crawl your site and an effective way of spreading out linkjuice (with some nice anchor text) they can also bite you in the arse when not used intelligently. Certainly submitting sitemaps ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google/google-adds-onebox-results-for-premiership-football/ I just spotted Google is showing onebox results for queries relating to English football clubs. A simple club search query brings back their next fixture. Screenshot below - Only seems to be Premiership clubs currently. Cool. Update - Google have now added last game results alongside the next fixture. As below - http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/123-reg-hacked-awghfjuhrfgh/ Another example of a Wordpress blog being hacked and injected with hidden links to viagra, tramadol and the like. Their blog is on a subdomain of the main site - http://inside.123-reg.co.uk/ If the self acclaimed ‘UK’s largest web host’ can’t protect their own blog or even spot they have a big problem, what hope is there ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/2-days-later/ It’s been a couple of days since Googles keyword trademarking policy change and it’s interesting to see many advertisers have already been slapped out of the bidding. In a quality score world, its not as simple as bidding against any brand due to quality based minimum bids. Although you might be able to display against ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/search-engine-marketing/always-get-the-dot-com/ I always wanted the ppcblog.com domain, but unfortunately it was registered before I got the chance. At the time, the .net & .org were available aswell as the .co.uk and nobody had built a brand around the name ‘PPC blog‘ in the same way there were seo blogs seemingly everywhere. About 2 years ago when I developed ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/hiding-links-in-flash/ Interesting experiment by the Neutralize Guava guys over on Search Engine War blog where they tested and proved that Google is now indexing links in flash. Next up for them to prove is whether text in a flash button acts as an anchor on those links… Pretty big achievement by the Google/Adobe engineers, flash still ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/nme-first-for-spam/ It’s festival season and I have been browsing here and there getting all excited about seeing some great bands and having a few beverages in the sun rain. Anyway, NME is first for music news (apparently) but it also seems their forums have been totally nuked by spam. The main forum boards has a nice toolbar ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/google-still-not-treating-underscores-as-word-seperators/ There is still some debate whether the search engines place any weight on keywords used within page urls and that’s actually what I wanted to quickly test. So I set up a couple of pages from this blog and included unique words within the page url, one separated by hyphens (dashes) and the other by ...]