Posts tagged ‘Google’

• March 6th

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  Google subdomain & 302 spam

  Excerpt: Dave pointed out last week that 302 spam is far from gone. Wiep pointed me at another form of spam that's far from gone, combined with 302 spam. If you search for "hypotheekoffers" and flip to page 2, you'll see a whole lot of subdomain spam. These subdomains 302 redirect to one domain, resulting in…

• December 18th

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  More Sitelinks!

  Excerpt: A friend emailed me this morning, saying he saw a lot more site links reported in Google Webmaster Tools for sites that had not before had site links. When I went to check I saw a lot of my sites, amongst which this one, showing site links too. I can't get them to show up in the SERPs yet, curious a…

• December 14th

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  Google Webmaster Tools Content Analysis shows Google breaks the rules.

  Excerpt: Well, it might offer some cool data, but it also shows me that whatever Google does, they don't adhere to the robots standard. Check this: Well, yes, these pages do have duplicate title tags. But they have something else as well: [code language="html"] [/code] Perhaps, Google, instea…

• November 13th

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  PageRank: more valuable than ever

  Excerpt: Now that Google has been so nice as to decrease PageRank for at least a portion of the sites they have identified as selling links, PageRank, and more importanly historical PageRank data, has become very valuable linkbuilding data. If you know that a site has decreased in visible PageRank, are yo…

• October 24th

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  That's it! I'm switching to GMail!

  Excerpt: GMail seems to be getting IMAP support: It's not enabled for me yet, but once it becomes available, I think I'll switch to that instead of my regular IMAP.…

• October 10th

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  Google doesn't get it?

  Excerpt: Looking in my Google Webmaster Tools in the "Unreachable URL's" section, I found this (click to see bigger one): So let me get this straight, they couldn't reach the page, because it gave a normal HTTP 200 Success code? Seems like a bug to me...…

• October 8th

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  Google: keyword density should NOT be this important

  Excerpt: I'm talking about the Dutch SERPs at the moment. Google has been getting better and better at recognizing synonyms, plurals and singles etc in Dutch, and a few other European languages too. This caused a problem though, because suddenly, all our "startpagina's", pages full of links on a particular s…

• September 13th

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  Searching for freshly indexed pages

  Excerpt: function addOpenSearch(url) { try { window.external.AddSearchProvider(url);} catch (e) {alert("You need to use Internet Explorer (7.0 or later) or Firefox (2.0 or later) to install the OpenSearch plug-in.");}}The post Matt did about better date search inspired me to create OpenSearch plugins which a…

• July 13th

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  Searching with Google: country based results made easy

  Excerpt: Dave Davis dropped me a line to tell about the Google Global Firefox extension they have just released, which allows you to search Google with geo targetting for different countries without having to edit the URL by hand. It's quite useful, I dare say, so check it out!…

• July 2nd

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  Google Search URL parameters cheat sheet

  Excerpt: I've been playing around with the URL parameters Google has to offer a lot lately, mostly after the de-personalized search stuff. I've now built a list of these parameters and created a PDF cheat sheet file with all of them in there. Included in this PDF are links to the documentation for the values…

• June 7th

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  "Plumbing the web" - duplicate content issues at Google Webmaster Central

  Excerpt: The girls and boys over at Google Webmaster Central have been busy on the Google Developer Day. Now that's all nice, but when I was searching for something on their blog for "nofollow", I got 4 results: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/come-see-us-at-ses-london-and-hear.html …

• April 16th

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  How to get Google to crawl your site faster

  Excerpt: Yet another question out of my referrers to answer: "how can i get google to crawl my site faster". There are two possible reasons why Google is slow in spidering your site. The first might seem obvious: if Google doesn't find enough (quality) links pointing to your site, it doesn't think your site …

• October 26th

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  Why you should check Google suggest

  Excerpt: In the new Firefox 2, Google suggest is incorporated into the search block in the top right of your browser. This new box CAN have quite an important effect on the way you should optimize your site. I'll show you why with an example. As readers who read this blog often well know, one of my best …

• October 7th

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  The Sandbox, or is it the Trustbox

  Excerpt: GrayWolf writes about The Sandbox not being the Trustbox, and the point he makes is the following: you're not trying to get out out of the Sandbox, you're trying to get into the Trustbox. This makes a lot more sense. Recently the tattoo blog of my colleague Roy suddenly got a whole lot more visi…