Tag Archives: Google
Google Voice FAIL

Google Voice FAIL

Posted 13 August 2009 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

Okay, so if you know me or even if we’ve passed on the same side of the street you know how much I love Google Voice. I talk about it all the time to nearly everyone I meet.
All the features, all the tools, it’s just brilliant. One of my favorite is the transcribing [...]

The Google Year in Review (2008)

The Google Year in Review (2008)

Posted 06 January 2009 | By Mike | Categories: Google, On-Page Optimization, Organic Traffic | No Comments

Number 1 with a (lack of) bang: CHROME
Wowey wow wow wow as Christopher Walken would say. There is a lot I love about Chrome. The first thing that stands out is the giant display size. Thanks to it’s ‘omnibar’ which combines pretty much 3 menubars into 1 you find yourself not staring [...]

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 [...]

How much traffic does Yahoo! send?

Posted 22 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Organic Traffic, Yahoo! | No Comments

There was an interesting poll and post over at Search Engine Roundtable about how much traffic Yahoo! sends. I’m confident SERoundTable see’s a lot more traffic than my sites do and it was interesting to see the breakdown. Less than 6% of traffic to their site came from Yahoo! in the past month.
So [...]

Duplicate Content Penalties

Posted 19 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

First let me start out by drawing a line here and define duplicate content in the context of this post: Duplicate content is content which other websites have utilized scapers or other means to take information found elsewhere and place it on other websites. It is also (more importantly in my opinion) [...]