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.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
NoFollow To Cause Revolt: Wasted PageRank via Sculpting & JavaScript Links Require NoFollow
Last night at SMX Advanced Matt Cutts of Google reportedly dropped a bombshell on the SEO community when he said that using the nofollow to PageRank sculpt might not work like you (SEOs) thought. Danny Sullivan explained it well: If you have $10 in authority to spend on those ten links, and you block 5 of them, the other 5 aren’t going to get $2 each. They’re still getting $1. It’s just that the other
June 2009 Google Webmaster Report
It is that time of the month again and we got your Google Webmaster report based on a new WebmasterWorld thread. The main thing I see repeated throughout the thread is that Google seems to be bouncing some results around by plus or minus fifteen positions. One SEO put it like this: My site is recovered for 60% of terms and back to old positions. For 25% of terms is back but lower for +/-
Should Webmasters Be Responsible For Google’s Snippets?
Yesterday, I wrote at Search Engine Land about a report from The Register about how a Dutch company was sued over the snippet Google choose for a certain web page of theirs. Let me quickly explain what happened. A web page on Miljoenhuizen.nl showed up in Google for the search phrase [Zwartepoorte] and [bankrupt]. When you read the snippet under the Miljoenhuizen.nl listing in Google, it basically read that Zwartepoorte was bankrupt. The issue is,
Google AdSense To Host Webinar On Channels/Advanced Reporting
Google has been holding these webinars to help AdSense publishers pick up new tricks and tips. The latest webinar is on the topic of Channels/Advanced Reporting. That topic includes: Learn how to set up channel tracking in your AdSense accountFind out how you can optimize AdSense using channel data.Track AdSense performance for a specific ad placementMeasure the performance of individual sites The webinar is tomorrow, June 4, 2009 at 6:30 pm PDT. You should be
Interviewing Patrick Gavin on DIYSEO.com
It has been about five years since I last interviewed Patrick Gavin, and back then I interviewed Patrick on his new company, Text Link Ads (TLA). Who knew TLA would have such a huge impact on the lives of so many SEOs and shape this industry, for better or worse. I should add that TLA has been a long time advertiser here and RustyBrick, my company, does work for TLA on the development side. Patrick
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Bing passing me more traffic today than Yahoo, DigitalPoint Forums
Google OS? Android Adapted for Netbooks, WebmasterWorld
Keyword Density does indeed still count in Google rankings, WebmasterWorld
Microsoft Delivers Natal – A Game Changer, Search Engine Watch Forums
Mobile Website (wap) Seo, HighRankings Forums
Starter Link Building Ninja Tips, Sphinn
Why isn’t Ask.com shut down for PPC arbitrage?, WebmasterWorld
iTunes 8.2 and Google Sync Contacts (gconsync.exe) Problem, Google Mobile Help
php redirection, multilingual site, sitemaps…, Google Webmaster Help
Same Owner Different Details – Sandboxed?, HighRankings Forums
small errot on Google Webmasters/Site owners Help page, Google Webmaster Help
Two upcoming maintenance periods June 3 and 6 ’09, WebmasterWorld
