Blog Archive from May 2008

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:45:59 by Emily Mace

Yahoo! have introduced Yahoo! Buzz (Y!Buzz) into the highly popular social media arena. Similar to Digg and Reddit, Yahoo! Buzz allows web users to rate articles and blogs creating a list of popular content. Recent trend results on the Internet show that Yahoo! Buzz is dramatically increasing the volume of their users and the amount of time these users are spending on the site. Due to the ris...

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Inbound Link Penalty Issues in Google

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:19:23 by Kerry Dye

I was reading Web Optimist’s blog on being penalised for someone else’s paid links (which isn’t very optimistic!) and I had to read it through a couple of times to get the gist of what he was saying.

This is the paragraph that caused me to pause

“This is where Google’s minus 60 penalty appears to be unjust. It has the potential of penalizing the inn...

Fri, 9 May 2008 15:46:00 by Kerry Dye

Back in January, Matt blogged about how to see Google.com results as seen from America and I’ve just discovered that a similar functionality is available on the new Live Search interface, whilst troubleshooting a geolocation issue for one of my clients:

Live results Australia http://www.live.com/?scope=web&mkt=en-AU
Live results USA http://www.live.com/?scope=web&mk...

Thu, 8 May 2008 08:53:22 by Matt Hopkins

There is something strangely familiar about the new live.com interface.. and a clear sign that Microsoft are starting to look at Google and see where they can emulate their success.

For me, this is definitely good news.. not enough to make me switch search engines yet.. but encouraging.

The problem with MSN / Live.com was never really with th...

Tue, 6 May 2008 12:48:23 by Joe Bursell

Last week I blogged about spam factory websites. This week I'm still in the mood for some spam (yum yum etc.), so when my vanity search for "spam factory websites" brought this back I just had to share it:

If I had a site that allowed snippets like this I'd go berserk- it says, very clearly, that the site is spam- big style!

The original blog was about fi...

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Spam Factory Websites

Fri, 2 May 2008 14:16:40 by Joe Bursell

Web developers and search engine optimizers work with the same basic commodities- web applications and the internet. Web developers (usually) create sites that look good, deliver the right information and exceed their clients' expectations. More and more they are also attuned to the requirement that a site should be able to achieve high search visibility. This means making key components search en...

Fri, 2 May 2008 13:22:34 by Kerry Dye

A colleague passed me this recent discussion on Webmaster World which discusses how a lot of SEO experts think that 3 Way link exchange can now be detected algorithmically.

3 way links were developed by the SEO industry in order to create an alternate linking strategy when two-way (or reciprocal) links were ‘devalued'. The idea was that by creating a triangular structure, the links ...

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