Google Sitemaps Verification Service Limited Don’t get me wrong, Google Sitemaps is a great tool for Webmasters and we should thank Google for setting it up (and Danny Sullivan for pushing it). When Google announced Google Sitemaps Verification Service Webmasters were in joy. But after a second look, many Webmasters are confused or unhappy with …
MSN APIs: APIs for MSN Search, MSN Virtual Earth, MSN Messenger & MapPoint I get all giddy when I hear there are new APIs coming out. APIs gives developers the freedom to express a level of creativity they might not be able to reach without APIs. Just think of all the current SEO tools out …
Google Number One Ranking: Risks, Ranking Higher, All Fun I call this thread, the funny thread of the week. A WebmasterWorld thread named Google Penalizes for being #1 is both funny but at the same time you can learn a lot from it. First let me quote the initial post which has been picked apart …
Yahoo! Local Adds Editorial Reviews It is very interesting to watch Local Search grow and mature. Today I found a WebmasterWorld thread named Yahoo Local Integrates Editorial Reviews. That is right, instead of the normal user reviews, they have added professional editorial style reviews. One example is of Connie’s Pizza in Chicago, IL, with an …
RSS Feed Search Added to MSN Search MSNdude, official MSN Search WebmasterWorld representative, posted a new thread at WebmasterWorld named Some new ways to search. In this thread he details two new releases made by MSN this week. The first is “a new set of operators for searching” at MSN Search. Danny Sullivan wrote up …
Google Detecting Some Paid Links There is a lot of buzz recently about buying & selling links these days. Yesterday, Matt Cutts posted a blog entry named Text links and PageRank, where he warns those who sell links for the sole purpose of manipulating the SERPs. He says, “However, link-selling sites can lose their ability …
Google Experimenting with Brokering Print Ads I am not kidding with you. Google is actually experimenting with being some sort of brokerage house for advertisers to put ads in magazines. A C|Net article released this morning named Google takes ad sales to print describes this in detail. “Google recently began buying ad pages in technology …
Changing Target URLs in Google AdWords Can Hurt Campaign Changing the target URLs of your ads within your AdWords campaigns can really take a toll on your earned rankings within AdWords. As we all know, Google uses a ranking algorithm within its paid listing program which looks at both CPC and CTR, when determining rank. …
Google’s Matt Cutts Basically Says Do Not Buy Links The Link Selling O’Reilly Debate continues and a new thread popped up at WebmasterWorld with the catchy title, Google Says: Buying links not allowed? In that thread, he the thread creator quotes a statement by Matt Cutts; top Google engineer as saying; “Google’s view on this…Selling …
Google AdSense Ad Links Reviewed Google AdSense released Ad Links on June 09, 2005 and publishers had plenty of time to test them out. A thread at WebmasterWorld named AdLinks bringing most of the revenue? Can anyone confirm? shows how for some it does well, and for others, it does not to well. One member …
