If it wasn’t enough difficult to rank on the first page of Google, with all the competition, universal search includes. Now, Google is even showing less results on some search result pages. Normally, the first 10 results on any search query are already competitive. Most SEO’s will know how the click distribution on average is […]
Crop Circles The Next War in Search?
With the launch of Bing.com, the concept of everyday a new visual made it’s entrance. Microsoft has a team of people who hand pick the picture for the homepage of Bing. Interesting facts are being displayed as you hover over the picture. Today’s visual is showing a a beautiful crop field just waiting for the […]
What is new in Google Caffeine
Tonight, Vanessa Fox posted a nice piece on Searchengineland: Caffeine: Google’s New Search Index. Obviously I rushed to the sandbox environment and tried out a bunch of queries that I always use and probably know the rankings of the top 10 better on those keywords than I know the way to work, I thought I […]
Markov Chains readable on Splogs?
Ever wondered how a splog looks like which has real unreadable Markov Chains on it? I just found one through following the most popular searches yesterday. Like always, just follow the money, in this case the traffic, and you will find some pretty bad web spam. Yesterday, between all the searches around Michael Jackson’s death, […]
Vintage 1890’s Levi’s Jeans 201
One of the oldest Vintage Denim Jeans, can you believe this. I found this blog post on eBay Blogs about a seller who was asking his readers if he would sell the pair of original Levi’s Jeans on eBay, and for how much. Original vintage Levi 201 jeans dated 1890-1901 Hello, We have consigned this […]
Tag cloud indexed
Just a couple of hours after I posted about the slow indexing of a Tagcloud, Googlebot refreshed the content of the merchandizing page. The Google index even displays a much better sniplet at the moment, as if I really would like to rank with that page! I could have implemented a no-index tag in the […]
Crawl frequency of Googlebot
How long do you have to wait until Googlebot comes to pick up your new content. It probably depends if you are a well established site, or if you use Sitemaps to ping the crawler there is new content to be found. As I’m working on a little experiment to rank a couple of pages […]
Google ads more personalized links into SERP’s
Google is now inserting even more personalized results into the real estate of the first result; prior visited pages within the domain. just see the screenshot for my search on eBay: The interesting thing about these extra links is, they all go to a Google page where the redirect is explained: Why is this interesting? […]
Bend Over for Knol & Dummies
Would you like to get ripped off by Google Knol and Dummies? Sounds like Revenge of The Nerds doesn’t it? So what would you think of this; you can win a $1000 with the Knol dummies contest. Yes, that’s right, Google will be paying you for writing the best how to content on a Google […]
Google Fast With Updating The Whitehouse Cache Version
Just a couple of moments after the Whitehouse website was changed into the Barack Obama website. It’s funny how people discuss the change on Twitter: A search for Whitehouse is bringing back the right sniplet: Only a search for President of the United States should still be updated. Google already updated their Cache version, but […]