According to FoxNews.com, "Google tweaked its search algorithm overnight, making it much harder to stumble upon pornographic images." The winner in the Google moves seems to be ICM owner and operator of the .XXX TLD and the owner and operator of the porn search engine Search.XXX. Search.XXX went live in late September, and after just the first week totaled over 1.4 million visitors and 8 … [Read more...]
Google Blacklists Mike Mann’s MakeMillions.com Site Forcing Him To Abandon $10K Domain
Domain investor and serial entrepreneur Mike Mann published his book Make Millions & Make Change in 2009 and has been giving it away for free on MakeMillions.com Last week Google blacklisted the domain. Mike Mann pulled the plug on MakeMillions.com in response and the domain name now does not resolve. The domain MakeMillions.com cost Mike $10,000 and now lays dead due to Google's … [Read more...]
SearchEngineJournal.com: 17 Ways To Get De-indexed by Google
SearchEngineJournal.com just published a post entitled "17 Ways to Get De-indexed by Google" Here are some of the 17 ways, but you should check out the post which details each of the 17 in-depth: Cloaking Duplicate Content Writing Content with a Machine Add Unrelated Keywords to Your Content Joining Link Exchanges and Bad Neighborhoods Point 100 URLs to One URL Sending … [Read more...]
Google: Improving News Search with Expandable Results
Google just announced some new features to its news search according to its blog: ""Last year we updated Google News to make it easier for you to scan for stories that are interesting to you and let you dig deeper when you find them. Today we’re announcing an update that brings some of those same ideas to news search. Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out the following … [Read more...]
Guest Post: The Future of Exact Match Domains In Search
This is a guest post by Mark Collier who describes himself as an SEO expert turned domainer. I recently completed a significant correlation study of Google's algorithm and noticed the continued decline since 2010 of the power of Exact Match Domains (EMDs). After Matt Cutts' announcement that Google latest algorithm update would target "low-quality" exact match domains, domainers were left … [Read more...]
Google Launches” Better Local Targetting Options For AdWords”
According to a post on Google Adwords site yesterday, Google recently changed its metro targeting areas to Nielsen DMA (Designated Market Areas) regions. “Now your online campaigns and reporting will more precisely match TV-based audience data and campaigns. If you’ve been using metros, you’ll notice that the new geographic shapes look different on a map,”While you might see some increases or … [Read more...]
UK Study: Paid Search (PPC) Accounts For Only 6% of Total Clicks
According to research from GroupM UK carried out with Nielsen which was published by econsultancy.com, "paid search only accounts for 6% of total clicks from search engines versus natural search at 94% of clicks". "The research, based on 28m people in the UK, making a total of 1.4bn search queries during June 2011, is the first in the UK to reveal click through rate (CTR) by natural search … [Read more...]