Straight from Google webmaster central, the search engineers claim that they correctly identify duplicate content and scraped text 99% of the time. The Google Search Quality Team post about the underlying concerns detailing how their spider handles scraped content. If you have ever had your content brazenly scraped and repurposed by other websites, and then…
SEO’s face a future of nearly insurmountable competition from huge established websites, and a decreased reliance on backlinks. Search engine optimization professionals enjoy competitive advantages for ranking in the search engine results pages due to years of hands on experience, but experience, grit and force of will cannot always match giant budgets when corporations throw…
Links are one of the largest untracked forms of online currency, and as soon as the IRS discovers this they will try to find a way to tax them. Every link is an indication of an exchange of real value, even if the parties are linking naively. Here is one example where an innocent link…
The most interesting quote from search engineers was from Google’s Udi Manber who stated that 20 to 25% of the queries that Google sees in any given day are queries that they have never seen before. A quarter of all DAILY searches are unique! The next time a client asks to be ranked for a…
I had a previous post titled “Google On Open Systems: 90% Open 10% Cartel” however Google completely changed my opinion (and much of the world’s) with their response to China. Google has been operating in China since 2006 and censoring their search engine for the Chinese government. In December Google.cn gmail accounts were hacked by…
Finally, real interaction between GPS handhelds and Google Earth. Trimble has partnered with Google to integrate GPS data with phones and other handheld devices with the Google mapping software. Get the layer for the google earth software and you will see little green hikers on the map. Clicking the hiker icons will reveal data, comments…
I tried to make a comment on this post, but Wired does not allow comments on this article. Oh well, their loss. I’ve read several interviews with Eric Schmidt and what really strikes me is his sense of giving and dedication to teaching and sharing. Doing interviews is tremendously time consuming, but he is constantly…
The Pubcon search engine marketing and webmaster conference & expo will be held in Austin in 2013 and we have pubcon discounts for this event in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA. All the top SEO’s will be there, and we usually give up a lot of insider information.…
Although Google algorithm updates usually make the headlines on tech blogs, the search engine’s recent Google Venice update received little attention. SEO content creators realize that the update is important, but many don’t realize that Venice could entirely change the way that businesses approach search engine optimization and marketing. To put it simply, Google’s Venice…
With the latest Google algorithm update, codenamed panda, Negative SEO has now become an issue everyone must be concerned about. It is now possible for mailcious SEO’s and hackers to negatively affect search engine rankings simply by pointing some of the wrong links at your website. Building links from authoritative websites that have a real…