Just noticed that Google maps now has information on bus stop location, each with a list of alleged buses available in the infomarker.
Not good news if you actually wanted to catch a bus, but the saving grace for anyone concerned about the all-seeing eye of the 2 Mr Google’s deep in their underground lair, is that the information is completely wrong… (at the moment). There’s a bus stop there, but it sure as hell doesn’t have those bus numbers stopping at it.
Pros in the SEO business will laugh hollowly at this, but don’t forget about the related site search function - it’s in the webmaster tools, or just type it in.
http://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.mysite.com
It does no harm to try out some different TLDs
http://www.google.nl/search?q=related:www.mysite.com
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SEO_WordPress Plugin is interesting in the context of Google’s increased (over the last 2-3 years anyway) use of their supplemental index. The plugin is another method for reducing crawled duplicate content - however, with the use of a robots.txt as well standard noindex… time will tell.
We live in frightening times. The average blog gets 80-90% of its organic search traffic from Google - and there are enough horror stories about being suddenly dropped from the results, to be left hanging and hoping…
So why not boost your traffic by paying attention to other search engines and their results?
There’s actually not much point. Basically, what works for Google will work fine for Yahoo and MSN, and the time and effort could probably be spent more profitably on other things.
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This story still with a strong question mark to it - but it makes sense that Google should be thinking towards it, all part of the plan to get a near monopoly on text links (if not all ads) on the web.
Feed readers often don’t support the graphical ads which a lot of advertizers prefer - but text ads in RSS, feedvertizing, whatever you want to call it just hasn’t taken off.
Text ads in feeds receive so little attention from readers that Google, which pursued its own trial, abandoned the experiment.
In three years time you’ll have the choice - send your visitor stats to either Google or Microsoft-Yahoo, or both.
The discussion concerning sponsored links in WordPress themes has a relevance to the wider question of buying links, and how it plays with the algorithm used by the current market leader in search engines. Google, through their vicar on earth, have set out their position in the usual partial fashion. This seems to be how it is as of now…
It’s vital to note that this applies only to paid links placed, in the opinion of Google, for SEO purposes and not paid links.
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Invent the hyperlink and you have invented the WWW.
Links are the lifeblood of the web, the reason for its existence. Links aren’t sexy and oh-so-very Web2.0 like mashups or collaborative videoblogging, they’re just what it’s all based on. So when you start messing around with hyperlinks (and you happen to be a large corporation based on the hyperlink) you are taking your life in your hands…
First, there was the nofollow business, detailed shortly after its introduction in this article which still holds true today. The nofollow attribute applied to a link would instruct a search engine spider to (largely, but not entirely) ignore the linked page and its content.
We now have the eccentric situation where referrer spam comes complete with its own nofollow attributes already supplied. But, worse, nofollow is proposed to be used as a sign of link sponsorship as opposed to pure, organic links generated by honest endeavour.
Have your paid links by all means, but don’t assign any authority to them - like a TV ad with a celebrity gushing on about their chosen product, but holding up a sign saying, Don’t actually believe a word of it!!!
Taken together with the enhanced “denounce a competitor” scheme, detailed in our previous post, the situation becomes bizarre.
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google, programming | Lewis, 12 May, 2008 | 
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