Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Here is the list of the hot search market news this week ..
What was hot here on this blog:
Don’t end URL’s in .0: Yes this was hot last week when SEOMoz’s Web2.0 awards page was kicked out of index. This week SEOMoz Web 2.0 page is back into Google index.
There are many advantages and disadvantages of posting a press release on your website. Check this article for details.
Google gone crazy ? Yes google is supporting .. gay, lesbians and Bisexuals round the globe.
Google Announced its 2nd Online webmaster chat. You can check the takeaway’s, Myths and some questions left after the chat here. Recording and Coverage can be seen here.
Hot on other forums and blog:
Set Up that Robots.txt File:
It’s possible, according to what was reported earlier this week, that Google won’t crawl your site if your robots.txt file is unreachable. Make sure your server gives a normal response to Google before you assume you’ll get crawled!
Google news is going to test something new:
Yes this is true they are planning to test something new … thats what it was written on there official blog can be seen here.
Google Trends:
Google’s webspam head Matt Cutts wrote an article about Google Trends on how to use them and how they can help you.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Update: JohnMu had answered some Unanswered questions from JuneTune can be seen here. Also he had done a comment on the post JohnMu Confirms about case sensitive results.
However i was not able to attend Google webmaster chat last night … seems like m lazy now a days … but here are some of the takeaways, myths and questions left after JuneTune …
Some takeaways from JuneTune:
- Matt Cutts have 2 cats .. One Emmy (she’s a scaredy cat) and the other Ozzie. He’s a handful.
- Forget about keyword density as this is a matter of past.
- Commented code is ignored by robots, therefore it will have no influence in anything.
- Lower and Upper case might effect your rankings.
- Zero second 302 redirect is not same as 301. I had seen this point somewhere that they are same didn’t remember the orignal source.
- If you click a PPC listing, that visit might influence organic, personalized search results if you are using a Google Toolbar this was th reply from John Mueller. So we can conclude that google is using Toolbar Data now.
- Google look at server location and ccTLD among other factors while ranking your website for a local search result.
- Pagerank is a one of the strongest factor influence number of pages indexed in google index.
- GEO meta data don’t impact GEO targeting.
- Google ignores meta keyword tag .. so no use of using that tag anymore.
- Last modified date is important in sitemap .. as it helps google bot to recognize new content .. and is highly recommended.
- Don’t link all of your websites to each other if they are not targeted to same industry as this might result in engine to think that its a link scheme … more info can be seen at: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356
Myths from JuneTune:
Michael Savage asked: “If someone clicks on your result for the keyword they entered into Google will that increase your possibilitly in being displayed in future results for the keyword?”
John Mueller replied: “Not in general.”
Can we conclude that there are some chances as the answer was “Not in general” instead of “NO” ??
Again someone asked similar question:
“If you are click a result in google results does that help your ranking for the keyword that was entered?”
John Mueller replied: “It might help with personalized results for YOU but it will not change much in general.”
How about this can we conclude that it helps ? This means that Google have something like CTR for organic results 2 ??
Antony Johnson asked:
“we added a noodp and 2 days later the pages connected to that tag dropped off google could these events be related ?”
Matt Dougherty replied:
“Antony, It is hard to say. If we were using the ODP snippet because we didn’t have any other content crawled for that page, we may now have nothing to show. The situation sounds like it needs a deeper dive. Try posting this in our Help Group.”
Can we conclude that Meta Description is still a ranking factor ?
Some Questions left with me:
- How Google treats News Agencies ? Like i know one and talked about it in my other thread about Advantages and Disadvantages of Press Release. As everyone is paying for the News so its not a noble idea to give credit to a single website for those news.
- If Google really drops the nofollow links from its graph then why we can view them in Our Webmaster Tool ?
- Pedro Dias replied for one question Google can identify paid links …. I wonder how ? Matt Cutts did a Cat Brush post few days back on his blog with a live link with no noindex tag …. so post or review like this on a Google and SEO related blog ??? Don’t u think its suspicious ?? (I know it was not a paid post … but m 100% sure if it was me then Google was going to kick my ass).
- Check this Google Webmaster Help thread for my last question .. as i got a different reply from Rand about the same question in a mail.
Every comment and answer for the above is valuable so feel free to comment on this.
Source: Search Engine Roundtable.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I had already discussed about some of the Google’s case sensitive results. Last night at Google Webmaster chat … JohnMu had confirmed that .. Google may take this into account if they recognize that the query is relevant.
Here is the exact question and answer:
Robert Longfield:
Q: Does google differentiate between searches in lower case and searches with proper capitalization?
John Mueller:
A: We may take this into account if we can recognize that it is relevant to the query.
I think this might be something to worry about.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Google is again going to organize Webmaster Chat tonight at: 2:30AM - India Standard Time (GMT +05:30, Bombay) !! If you want to join then you have to register in advance from here.
You can catch some famous Googler out there .. Matt Cutts will be available to answer the questions at Q&A Session, JohnMu will give a presentation over personalization.
However it will be late night over here and i have to go for work tomorrow … but i will try my best to be there … Hope to catch u guys over there in that chat session .. 
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