Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Via WebProNews by Chris Crum
A patent application by Google "Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles" was Granted on August 18, 2009. The patent was originally filed about 6 years ago on "September 16, 2003". Interesting analysis in human readable language at Seo By The Sea by ...
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
A script for analyzing my webservers access.log is long overdue here is a small start. Just recently I noticed a bad bot was attempting to scrape whole of my site using Googlebot's useragent. Since im learning python, I thought it might be a nice experience to write a simple script ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Usually wanting money is a good thing. It makes us work harder. Greed is actually a good thing. It is the only line of defense between working hard and being a full time couch potato. Occasionally greed makes us do things... really evil things..
The Good Greed : FOSS (Free and ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Earlier, every now and then I would go to Alexa to see my ranking to massage my ego. Now, Google has come up with a reality check - Google Trends for websites.
Google announced a new layer to Google Trends in an official blogpost. Matt Cutts and Barry Schwartz also blogged ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
On last week's Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz, Barry Schwartz of seroundtable.com said he would is expecting schwag from a few companies, and he ran a video contest. The contest was to predict which companies schwag would arrive first. The correct entries would get the schwag as a prize. ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Just now I noticed an interesting post from seroundtable on my feed-reader and it immediately caught my attention. Nice to hear things directly from the horses mouth, most of them are what I assumed. searchengineland also posted some comments on this issue.
Having an image next to your article improves your ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Just noticed a new feature on Google webmaster tools. Now we can get important information directly on iGoogle homepage. Adding this gadget is very easy. Simply log in to webmaster tools and under tools there is a new option called Gadgets. Thank you Google and keep coming up with cool ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Yesterday was Google Dance day and the SEOs are perhaps still dancing today (Tuesday in US). Some say that page rank is useless, but i tend to believe it has some relevance. At least it is an indicative of the link authority of the site.
First noticed it yesterday evening(early a.m. ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Today while searching for photography tutorials, i landed up on Cameratown's tutorial page. Surprisingly, there was a contextual text ad for "Canon Flash Photography" on it. Wonder if it is a new phenomenon, searching on Google would only lead me to articles/posts about the adsense video ad units. Take a ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Awesome video reached homepage of digg from 2 separate links!
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