Google News ranking factors, 2003 patent revealed

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 ...

Python script to detect bad bots/people faking as Googlebot

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 ...

The Good, The Bad and The Greedy!

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 ...

Goodbye Alexa : Google Trends for websites is here!

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 ...

Me won Google schwag!

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. ...