social blog roll with tag: search

Google spidering its own custom search results?

I was doing a little search this evening and found this amongst the results on the 1st page. I thought it might be something related to me being signed in to a Google account so I signed out and tried again. Same result. So I opened up IE7 and same result. I tried the same query ...]

Site links for yack yack

Cool - This domain now has site links (not to be confused with subscribed links). A search for the phrase ‘yack yack’ returned this Who searches for yack yack? Answer - no one, but hey - for those who are interested there are lessons to be learnt. I’d like to know how they arrived at those titles ...]

SES London 2008 Day 3

I attended SES London on Thursday, my first since way back in 2002 or was that 2003, Christ I can’t remember! Customers Prospects and Drug users The first session I went to way a presentation by Brian Eisenberg of Future now entitled Redefining the Customer loosely speaking, Brian hit on important aspects to consider when ...]

SEO’s our own worst enemies and Negative SEO

I just wanted to get this out there and vent a little it’s a little rant fired up by what I keep seeing every single week on forums, blogs etc. It isn’t going to go away, I know that - but I’ll feel better for getting it off my chest. To any SEO who ...]

Google Subscriber links - The Good - The Not So Good and The Reality

Google Subscriber links There’s a little bit of buzz about today over Googles subscribed links feature. I thought it might be handy to share my robwatts view on it. The view being one that is informed from 3 perspectives. A google user a site owner and an SEO. I’ll stick to three classifications, good, not so ...]

Of Course Google Indexes Content About Vodka & Hard Liquor

Frank Watson, AKA AussieWebmaster, has written a blog post at Search Engine Watch complaining that Google basically indexes content on hard liquor, such as vodka. Frank's specific complaint is that vodka results come up in Google Product Search for a...

Building a Powerful Presence with Twitter

Dosh Dosh has just written an excellent piece on how to get more Twitter followers. He cites a lot of reasons, but drives it down to the power of your brand. Still, even if you're not a powerful brand, you...

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 14, 2008

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....

Google Changing Trademark Policy In The UK

Good news for naughty affiliates. Nightmare for real brands. Google are moving inline with their policies in the US/Canada. We’re writing to inform you that we’re changing our trademark complaint procedure in the UK and Ireland. This change may affect how we handle the trademark complaint you currently have on file with Google. If you’ve submitted a complaint ...]

Yahoo Promoting Viagra

Quite an amusing spot by Jeremy over at PPC Discussions. Looks like the YSMBlog (”nofollow” for you I don’t want to be linking to bad neighbourhoods) has been hacked (another WP exploit example) and currently has a ‘buy viagra’ link hidden in a noscript tag. Actually what I found interesting is that it took this long ...]

Page Load Time? What’s The Point?

Am I being to cynical but page load time as another factor in quality score?. Why? According to Google it’s all in the name of ‘user experience’ and hence it’s going to be added into the quality score algo in Adwords sometime soon. I don’t get it. Why bother? Surely if site load time is long and delayed ...]

Google Site Links Update

Looks like there has been a site links update, thanks big G. Interesting to see which pages Google chose. The Amy Alexandra post was just a little testing I did for fun and was certainly not one of my most linked to pages, but traffic wise its been pretty big…

Removing Sitewide Blogroll / Links In Wordpress

I have finally found some time to make some changes to the blog. So lets get rid of those sitewide blogroll / links that seem to come with a lot of the ‘out of the box’ WP themes available. Before -

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Understanding When To Bid On Your Own Brand

Interesting article over at Conversation Marketing about bidding on your own brand name. The post throws up some good arguments, but like all things in life one rule simple does not fit all. Aswell as reasons to bid on your own brand there are equally very good arguments against bidding on brand ...]

Amnesty International Promoting Viagra Too

After Yahoos blog was hacked I spotted today that Amnesty seem to have a similar problem. Monitoring the SERPs for ‘buy viagra‘ (ahem) I noticed an Amnesty blog post appearing in 8th. If you click on the link you get redirected via some onpage script to a pharmacy site… The cached text of the page shows the ...]

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 ...]

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 ...]

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 -