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- Gay Google SearchJune 17 2008
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Perhaps as a celebration of the change in the law as regards same-sex marriages in California, Google are displaying the rainbow flag next to the sponsored links for “gay” and “queer” searches.
- Google Dominate Search and Upstream TrafficApril 29 2008
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Hitwise have just posted Google delivers over a third of all UK traffic in which they discuss the amount of UK traffic Google get.
Here they are talking not just of the Google.com/co.uk domains but also Gmail.com Youtube, Blogger etc. Google get over a third of all Internet traffic in the UK. They are in effect controlling not just the means of distribution with 90% of the UK search market but also increasingly the destinations visited too.
This should be a cause for concern for everyone outside of Google. They have wrapped up the search market, and now are making further inroads into publishing. They saw all the traffic being lost from Google as people where only on a search engine for a few moments before engaging with other properties, and they’ve taken step after step to keep the traffic. The phrase “to have on
- Building upon success - the long tail & using existing keyword trafficMarch 13 2008
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In my experience, many people undertake keyword research when developing new pages or sites but neglect to continue to study keywords on existing pages and utilise current success to further increase their authority within the topic they are addressing. In short, you’re leaving traffic - and therefore money - on the table. If a search engine is providing traffic on a subject you are already ranking for, it’s easier to get traffic for subsets and expansions on that topic, than to develop a new page on a new subject.
This is essentially an expansion of the long tail idea which says that although a few pages on your site provide the vast majority of the traffic on a page by page basis, the tail of the site’s keywords will provide more traffic overall. It essentially reverses the expected pattern in that although the top terms will provide a nice big chunk of traffic, ther
- Indexing of nofollowed pages via directory structure.March 13 2008
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A few days ago I placed a couple of links on my tips page to another domain to test nofollow. I’ve occasionally done this via a number of sources and in each case I’ve always found that Google eventually index the nofollowed page.I edited the page at Feb 26th at 16:34, I had two links to a test page, the anchor text was “Ape quake island republic” on the nofollow link and “Digg’s wiry crops” on the standard link.
Yahoo’s Slurp came in first, and subsequently spidered the followed link, but not the nofollowed. Google took the followed link a little later, and then returned to read in the test directory that the pages where in. This directory wasn’t linked to anywhere other than being in the pages URL path.
Google then read the nofollowed page, and a page it linked to. However, searches on the anchor text and unique text within those pages show that Google hasn’t included the nofollowed page, or the page it found from it in thier index.
A search on the anchor text for both links, results in Google
- Digg Friends RSS FeedsJanuary 25 2008
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Finding the Digg Friends Submissions page next to useless as it constantly times out, I decided to add my friends’ submissions feeds into a reader. To make it easy to add the RSS I grabbed a list of names and have quickly put together (thank you Vim) a list of the feeds, so I can easily click and add you as wading through each individual pages within Digg seemed onerous.
If I’m a fan of yours or a mutual and I’ve missed you here, please comment below & I’ll add your submissions RSS to my reader.
If you’re a fan of mine (thank you!) and I haven’t friended you back, again please comment and I’ll take a look.
Want mine? liamvictor’s Digg Submissions RSS
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