Aaron’s Backlink Analyzer tool updated
June 30, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Aaron Wall (seobook) has updated his Backlink Analyzer tool. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should. First of all, it is free, and free is always a good thing.
Google is broken theory
June 30, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
Came across a forum thread today that I thought was interesting, concerning one man’s opinion that Google is broken.
Offtopic post – Windows Vista
June 30, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
As many of you know, I run a Windows Vista forum and have been testing the Vista beta operating system for a while now. Since SEO’s are generally geeks who are interested in such things, I thought I’d share my opinions of Vista so far.
Google updates
June 30, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Just a quick note for anyone who hasn’t been following the forum discussions. Google has done some sort of tweaking over the last couple of days that has changed the SERPs (in a different way than the rolling changes we’ve seen on a daily basis for the last few months). It also appears to be going through a Toolbar PR update, although it may be one of those minor kinds of updates, where only new pages gain PR (so say some).
Reports of sandboxed sites being released
June 27, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
There have been a sprinkling of reports of sites that have seemingly been in the sandbox being recently released. From the few I’ve checked out, it seems to be those sites that are hitting the 6-7 month age.
SEO Scoop Turns 2 Today
June 26, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 10 Comments
My first post here on SEO Scoop was two years ago today, June 26, 2004. Looking back, it seems that search has both changed considerably, and yet not changed much at all. Algorithms change seemingly on a daily basis these days (ok, I’m exaggerating a bit there), but some things remain constant.
5 Million Spam Pages I Found in a Couple of Hours That Google Has Missed All Week
June 24, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
A friend of mine, Michael VanDeMar (aka mvandemar), alerted me to a situation that highlights the sub-subdomain spam problem that Google “supposedly” fixed, but apparently has not. Here is his research and report.
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Last Saturday, June 17th 2006, an article was posted on how to get 5 Billion Pages indexed in Google in less than 30 days. The report was based around a series of domains from one particular spammer.
Some SEO Friday fun
June 23, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
You know you’ve been in SEO too long when…
Current Known Google Datacenter IP list
June 23, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 7 Comments
Members at WebmasterWorld who have been diligently watching Google datacenter changes have compiled a list of datacenter IP addresses. There are far more known IPs than ever before (519 of them within 39 separate Class C’s, if I counted correctly), and there are likely quite a few that are still unknown. You can see the list at WMW (msg #26) and contribute to the list if you know of some that are missing. At the time of this writing, here are the known Google datacenter IP addresses (which may not be live at all times).
Google ranking and trust
June 22, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Although the link I’m about to give you is six months old, it’s still one that needs to be shared. It’s titled The Future of Google SEO – Trust and it’s a good read, especially for newbies, who may have been reading old, outdated information. Thanks, brandall, for putting that information out there in such a clear, understandable manner.
Searching can be frustrating
June 21, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 6 Comments
Lately, I’ve been incredibly frustrated with search results – and it’s NOT the search engines’ fault (this time). No, this time, I have to blame business owners. Why? Because they don’t have websites! How is it, in this day and age, that local businesses can’t even have a one-page brochure website? It costs, what…maybe $15/year for a domain name and cheap hosting for a tiny site?
Google has not solved the subdomain issue
June 20, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Although Google has manually nuked the billions of pages that Mr. Spammer got indexed, it has obviously not solved the problem algorithmically. Would you consider Craigslist to be a spammer? No, of course you wouldn’t. Yet the rankings show some very obvious problems that Google is having with subdomains (sub subdomains actually) by looking at certain search terms (here and here). For those two terms, Craigslist (using sub subdomains) gets 97 of the top 100 search results and 50 of the top 100 results.
Google is seriously f’d up
June 17, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Have you had your site’s pages de-indexed? Hmmm…maybe it’s because a world-class spammer has filled Google with BILLIONS of bogus pages – and Google has been stupid enough to be duped into indexing all of them!
