Matt Cutts is fed up with spammy guest post requests and said so on his blog today with the claim that “guest blogging is done.” That’s quite the announcement! Matt goes on to say “Given how spammy it’s become, I’d expect Google’s webspam team to take a pretty dim view of guest blogging going forward.” […]
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If you’ve read the Google search quality guidelines that were leaked earlier this year, you might have read a section about content freshness. Sometimes informational search queries might be about recent or past events and Google trains their quality raters to figure out which queries those are. The guidelines also mention that the content of
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The way Google previously worked was by crawling the web for a period of time and then pushing those updates out every so often. For example, they would crawl for 30 days, take down an old data center and then push out a new datacenter in it’s place. This is what caused the “Google Dance”
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Google Image Labeler isn’t that new of a service anymore, but I wanted to write a post about it so anyone who hasn’t heard of it yet gets the chance to play with it. You can start the game either as a Guest, or if you’re logged in, you can create a nickname for better
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If you take a look at Google Hot Trends today, you’ll see that the top result is “Demi Moore Bush.” So what do you expect that’s about? Probably something not safe for work, I’d assume. But after digging in to the results on Hot Trends, related searches are “demi moore”, “comedy central,” and “demi moore
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Have you been to Google today? If you do a search, you might notice that once you begin typing, Google automatically starts providing real-time suggestions, as well as how many results each of those keywords have. This option, Google Suggest, was previously available as a Google Labs opt-in but it’s now gonna be default for
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Ok, so Ask.com didn’t really ruin Cinco de Mayo, but they ruined the spelling of it. On their homepage, they’ve misspelled the Mexican holiday as Cinco do Mayo. Only one letter off but that’s enough to have people like me out there putting up blog posts about it. Maybe Ask.com should do this all the
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I figured that Earth Day would have received much more acknowledgment around the web, but not so much from the big search engines. Ask.com changed their homepage, as well as Google of course, which you can see below. The same goes for YouTube (above), but what about everyone else? Nothing from Yahoo, Reddit, Digg, MSN
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