Archive for November, 2008
Economy hits Google

Economy hits Google

Posted 30 November 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

Rumor has it Google has been laying off hundreds of ‘employees’ since August. I use the quotes because they technically were contractors and not actual employees, meaning the reason you haven’t heard about them is due to the loop hole of contractors being an ‘operational expense’.
The mystique surrounding Google as being this untouchable super-company [...]

Google’s SearchWiki

Google’s SearchWiki

Posted 21 November 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | 1 Comment

Google’s SearchWiki
Well Google’s personal promotion service is back and this time we have a name for it: SearchWiki.
When you do a search you should see two new icons presented in the results next to the title. These icons allow you to personalize your search results by promoting or demoting results.

As you can see above, [...]

November Search Updates

November Search Updates

Posted 20 November 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google, On-Page Optimization | No Comments

Comments from webmasters and SEOs alike are commenting on this month’s changes including some universal search changes.
Many folks are speculating on Google’s apparent shift of importance giving greater weight to H2 tags and even the meta description – both of which many folks ignore.
But this is all of course speculation, interesting and the H2 tag [...]

Google Audio Indexing

Google Audio Indexing

Posted 11 November 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

Google has released a beta (you know they love their betas) feature called GAudio. They recently won the right to continue their Google Book Search project and it appears they are continuing on their efforts to assimilate as much information as possible. GAudio seems the next logical step. However, this has some [...]

Reinclusion for Lost PageRank?

Posted 03 November 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google, PageRank | No Comments

That’s what’s being asked at the cre8asite forums. You can find the entire post here Should I Submit for Google Reinclusion? or check out the question here:
One of my sites lost its pagerank (most likely because I was selling text links on the site).
I have redone many things on the website and don’t sell [...]