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Google Launches Social Search

On January 28, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

Google has launched the very neat social search feature yesterday. I am honestly surprised there is not more discussion around it in the forums. We covered it three times, first for the demo, then when it went experimental and then with some technical issues.

Well, it is now live. On by default. Honestly, I don’t believe it impacts normal searches unless you specific choose, “show options” and click on the social feature.

But when you do, it opens up a world of new searches based on your online social profile (which you may or may not have).

Here is my social circle as found by Google:

Here is my social content:

Here is a detailed look at the “paths” on how I am associated to one of my contacts, JohnMu at Google:

Video Demo:

Pretty neat!

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums.

Google has launched the very neat social search feature yesterday. I am honestly surprised there is not more discussion around it in the forums. We covered it three times, first for the demo, then when it went experimental and then with some technical issues.

Well, it is now live. On by default. Honestly, I don’t believe it impacts normal searches unless you specific choose, “show options” and click on the social feature.

But when you do, it opens up a world of new searches based on your online social profile (which you may or may not have).

Here is my social circle as found by Google:

Here is my social content:

Here is a detailed look at the “paths” on how I am associated to one of my contacts, JohnMu at Google:

Video Demo:

Pretty neat!

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums.

Microsoft Bing Says They Are “Fairly Slow”

On January 7, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

One of the latest comments to come from Microsoft’s Bing representative in the Bing Forums was that they consider themselves to be “fairly slow.” Fairly slow at indexing new sites and new pages, that is.

Brett Yount, the Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, said in a Bing Forums thread:

It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow.

Did he just say that? For real?

So what is Microsoft’s solution to get new sites into their index? Well, either spam Digg or Yahoo Buzz to be discovered or post a message in the Site not in index thread at Bing Forums and they will manually add you. Yes, there is a forum thread pretty much acting as a URL submit form. How 1995 of them.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

One of the latest comments to come from Microsoft’s Bing representative in the Bing Forums was that they consider themselves to be “fairly slow.” Fairly slow at indexing new sites and new pages, that is.

Brett Yount, the Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, said in a Bing Forums thread:

It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow.

Did he just say that? For real?

So what is Microsoft’s solution to get new sites into their index? Well, either spam Digg or Yahoo Buzz to be discovered or post a message in the Site not in index thread at Bing Forums and they will manually add you. Yes, there is a forum thread pretty much acting as a URL submit form. How 1995 of them.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Bing Recommends Submitting to Digg & Yahoo Buzz for Indexing Boost

On January 5, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

Here is the weird Bing comment for the day. Brett Yount, the Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, told webmasters to submit their site to Digg or Yahoo Buzz to help get their pages indexed. I kid you not!

A Bing Forums thread has Brett saying, and I quote:

If your site pages have good content, submit them to buzz and digg. Both have a high chance of getting your page indexed.

Of course this makes sense. Get a link from a popular site and a search engine will find that link and hopefully index your site/pages afterwards. But I just find it weird that a search representative would specifically name Digg and/or Buzz. I mean, why not mention something else or just talk about the concept in general. Brett could have said, to get your pages indexed quicker, make sure to get links from sites we crawl on a frequent basis.

One day Brett and I are going to meet in person and I hope he doesn’t punch me out.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Here is the weird Bing comment for the day. Brett Yount, the Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, told webmasters to submit their site to Digg or Yahoo Buzz to help get their pages indexed. I kid you not!

A Bing Forums thread has Brett saying, and I quote:

If your site pages have good content, submit them to buzz and digg. Both have a high chance of getting your page indexed.

Of course this makes sense. Get a link from a popular site and a search engine will find that link and hopefully index your site/pages afterwards. But I just find it weird that a search representative would specifically name Digg and/or Buzz. I mean, why not mention something else or just talk about the concept in general. Brett could have said, to get your pages indexed quicker, make sure to get links from sites we crawl on a frequent basis.

One day Brett and I are going to meet in person and I hope he doesn’t punch me out.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Bing Doesn’t Support the Canonical Tag At All Right Now

On December 24, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

There is this old and upsetting thread in the Bing Forums about how Bing handles the canonical tag. The thread is filled with misinformation. Matt McGee’s post at Search Engine Land a week ago says it clearly.

Bing says it’s still working on supporting the canonical tag on a single domain, and suggests webmasters should rely on other means to manage duplicate content.

You got that right, 11 months ago, Google, Yahoo and Bing announced support for the Canonical tag. As far as I know, only Google really uses it and they even added cross domain canonical support this month. Where is Bing at this? Well, in the next several months they hope to support a single domain use of the canonical tag and hopefully soon after the cross domain support. So it would have taken Bing over a year since they announced support of this tag to actually support it?

I am not too upset about that, to be honest. What I am more upset about is that official Bing support representatives are pretty much lying in the Bing Forums. Brett Yount, the Product Manager of Bing Webmaster Center said:

accourding to our blog post, http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx, the canonical tag is used as a hint only.

No, it is not used as a hint or anything. It is not used period, not yet. Maybe in four months, but not yet.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

There is this old and upsetting thread in the Bing Forums about how Bing handles the canonical tag. The thread is filled with misinformation. Matt McGee’s post at Search Engine Land a week ago says it clearly.

Bing says it’s still working on supporting the canonical tag on a single domain, and suggests webmasters should rely on other means to manage duplicate content.

You got that right, 11 months ago, Google, Yahoo and Bing announced support for the Canonical tag. As far as I know, only Google really uses it and they even added cross domain canonical support this month. Where is Bing at this? Well, in the next several months they hope to support a single domain use of the canonical tag and hopefully soon after the cross domain support. So it would have taken Bing over a year since they announced support of this tag to actually support it?

I am not too upset about that, to be honest. What I am more upset about is that official Bing support representatives are pretty much lying in the Bing Forums. Brett Yount, the Product Manager of Bing Webmaster Center said:

accourding to our blog post, http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx, the canonical tag is used as a hint only.

No, it is not used as a hint or anything. It is not used period, not yet. Maybe in four months, but not yet.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Microsoft Might Add Bing Page Score to MSN Toolbar

On December 17, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

Brett Yount from the Bing Webmaster Team dropped a hint in the Bing Forums that they may add the Bing Page Score (similar to Google’s PageRank) to the MSN Toolbar.

Bing has what they call Bing Page Score when you login to their Bing Webmaster Center. Someone asked in the thread, “is it possible to enable page rank in bing toolbar?”

Soon after, Brett Yount from Bing responded saying:

We might once we complete the rework of that tool, which will be Fall earliest. Good news is, there are some changes in the works due in May/June to many things important to the webmasters frequenting these forums.

So there are two things here:

(1) Bing’s Page Score may come to their Toolbar.
(2) They will be reworking “that tool,” which I believe is talking about Page Score specifically.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Brett Yount from the Bing Webmaster Team dropped a hint in the Bing Forums that they may add the Bing Page Score (similar to Google’s PageRank) to the MSN Toolbar.

Bing has what they call Bing Page Score when you login to their Bing Webmaster Center. Someone asked in the thread, “is it possible to enable page rank in bing toolbar?”

Soon after, Brett Yount from Bing responded saying:

We might once we complete the rework of that tool, which will be Fall earliest. Good news is, there are some changes in the works due in May/June to many things important to the webmasters frequenting these forums.

So there are two things here:

(1) Bing’s Page Score may come to their Toolbar.
(2) They will be reworking “that tool,” which I believe is talking about Page Score specifically.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Bing Requires 3 MSNBot Crawls To Register 301 Redirects

On December 10, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

I spotted a useful tidbit for SEOs in the Bing Forums today. Brett Yount from Bing Webmaster Center team explained how Bing picks up on 301 redirects.

Brett said it can take two to three crawls from Bing to register a 301 redirect in their index. Brett said:

By design, our crawler usually takes 2-3 crawls before it registers the redirect.

I wonder how many crawls Google takes to do the same thing? I can see why you would want to wait at least for a second crawl to confirm a 301 redirect is indeed legit.

We had some reports recently that Bing is handling 301s much better now than they have in the past.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

I spotted a useful tidbit for SEOs in the Bing Forums today. Brett Yount from Bing Webmaster Center team explained how Bing picks up on 301 redirects.

Brett said it can take two to three crawls from Bing to register a 301 redirect in their index. Brett said:

By design, our crawler usually takes 2-3 crawls before it registers the redirect.

I wonder how many crawls Google takes to do the same thing? I can see why you would want to wait at least for a second crawl to confirm a 301 redirect is indeed legit.

We had some reports recently that Bing is handling 301s much better now than they have in the past.

Forum discussion at Bing Forums.

Tony Ruscoe, Popular SEM Personality, to Join Google

On December 8, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

Tony Ruscoe, the co-editor at Google Blogoscoped has confirmed he will be joining the Google team next month. Tony has been writing at Google Blogoscoped since 2006, he has broken so many stories by digging deep into Google and finding tons of hidden treasures.

Tony is becoming a Googler in January 2010. He will be working in Google’s London office as part of the Google Webmaster Team. He said he is not exactly sure what he will be working on at Google yet, but likely in the same role as JohnMu who also joined Google from the webmaster ranks back in August 2007. John has been a huge asset to the webmaster community before and even more so after joining Google.

Googlers are obviously delighted to have Tony join the team there. A Google Blogoscoped Forums thread has comments from Googlers. Matt Cutts said, “w00t! I’m so excited that you’re joining Google. I can see it now: “Day 1: Clean up the home page a bit. Make sure it’s smaller but validates. Day 2: …” ” JohnMu said:

Congratulations, Tony! I’m excited to see that you’re coming aboard & really looking forward to catching you in London or perhaps on a visit to the Zuerich office .

Tom, if you have worked out how cloning works, I have a list of names …

Tony, the webmasters will miss you as being part of the team but I am sure we will all benefit more from you moving over to Google.

Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.

Tony Ruscoe, the co-editor at Google Blogoscoped has confirmed he will be joining the Google team next month. Tony has been writing at Google Blogoscoped since 2006, he has broken so many stories by digging deep into Google and finding tons of hidden treasures.

Tony is becoming a Googler in January 2010. He will be working in Google’s London office as part of the Google Webmaster Team. He said he is not exactly sure what he will be working on at Google yet, but likely in the same role as JohnMu who also joined Google from the webmaster ranks back in August 2007. John has been a huge asset to the webmaster community before and even more so after joining Google.

Googlers are obviously delighted to have Tony join the team there. A Google Blogoscoped Forums thread has comments from Googlers. Matt Cutts said, “w00t! I’m so excited that you’re joining Google. I can see it now: “Day 1: Clean up the home page a bit. Make sure it’s smaller but validates. Day 2: …” ” JohnMu said:

Congratulations, Tony! I’m excited to see that you’re coming aboard & really looking forward to catching you in London or perhaps on a visit to the Zuerich office .

Tom, if you have worked out how cloning works, I have a list of names …

Tony, the webmasters will miss you as being part of the team but I am sure we will all benefit more from you moving over to Google.

Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.

Google Updates Keyword Tool in Webmaster Tools: Updates Daily & Shows More Detail

On November 12, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced they have updated the keyword tool and data in Google Webmaster Tools. The new additions include:

Data updated daily
How often is the keyword found
Displas top URLs that contain the keyword

Specifically, the new significance column “compares the frequency of a keyword to the frequency of the most popular keyword on your site.” Google adds, “when you click on a keyword to view more details, you will get a list of up to 10 URLs which contain that keyword.” Why is this important, well, if someone does hack into your site, you can easily see if unrelated keywords are showing up and on which pages. Plus, it is just a good tool to see how Google understands your web site.

Here are pictures of the report for this site:

Most importantly, the Google Webmaster Team’s Halloween costume not only rocked, but coordinated.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help, DigitalPoint Forums and Cre8asite Forums.

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced they have updated the keyword tool and data in Google Webmaster Tools. The new additions include:

Data updated daily
How often is the keyword found
Displas top URLs that contain the keyword

Specifically, the new significance column “compares the frequency of a keyword to the frequency of the most popular keyword on your site.” Google adds, “when you click on a keyword to view more details, you will get a list of up to 10 URLs which contain that keyword.” Why is this important, well, if someone does hack into your site, you can easily see if unrelated keywords are showing up and on which pages. Plus, it is just a good tool to see how Google understands your web site.

Here are pictures of the report for this site:

Most importantly, the Google Webmaster Team’s Halloween costume not only rocked, but coordinated.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help, DigitalPoint Forums and Cre8asite Forums.

Google’s New Beta AdSense Interface Looks Slick

On November 5, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

There is currently no AdSense publisher that would say they like the AdSense management console. Yes, Google knows that and they have finally announced a limited beta for the new AdSense console interface. And let me tell you, it looks incredibly sweet – compared to what we have now.

Here is a picture:

As I reported at Search Engine Land, here are the new features:

More detailed performance reports
Enables you to view daily stats in graphical formats
Additional metrics such as the amount you’ve earned from various ad, targeting and bid types
More options to manage the ads that appear on your site
cleaner interface that makes it easier to find and review them within the Ad Review Center
A streamlined AdSense interface to simplify common tasks, such as making a change to several ad units simultaneously
Added more relevant help on every page, a message inbox for tips from our team, and alerts with important account related notices

When will you and I get it? Well, hopefully most of us will have this beta interface within three weeks. The others? Well, there is no eta.

Forum discussion at Google AdSense Help, DigitalPoint Forums, and WebmasterWorld.

There is currently no AdSense publisher that would say they like the AdSense management console. Yes, Google knows that and they have finally announced a limited beta for the new AdSense console interface. And let me tell you, it looks incredibly sweet – compared to what we have now.

Here is a picture:

As I reported at Search Engine Land, here are the new features:

More detailed performance reports
Enables you to view daily stats in graphical formats
Additional metrics such as the amount you’ve earned from various ad, targeting and bid types
More options to manage the ads that appear on your site
cleaner interface that makes it easier to find and review them within the Ad Review Center
A streamlined AdSense interface to simplify common tasks, such as making a change to several ad units simultaneously
Added more relevant help on every page, a message inbox for tips from our team, and alerts with important account related notices

When will you and I get it? Well, hopefully most of us will have this beta interface within three weeks. The others? Well, there is no eta.

Forum discussion at Google AdSense Help, DigitalPoint Forums, and WebmasterWorld.

Higher Counts of Malware Taking Over Google Search Results?

On October 26, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

I often see threads in the various discussion forums online with people complaining that the Google search results look weird. They often complain the wrong sites come up, or they are full of ads or there are weird pop ups. The answer to these issues is often that their computers have been infected with some form of virus and/or malware.

Google has a specific FAQ page just to help people with this issue. You can find the page under the title Suspicious results and strange behavior: Strange pop-ups and other malware. If you have a similar issue, make sure to check out that page asap and take the necessary action to cleanse your computer.

As Google becomes more popular and less savvy searchers use computers and Google, more and more people get hit by these viruses. I believe this weekend had one of the higher levels of reports in the various forums, with complaints of this nature. Unsuspecting searchers, complaining that Google failed them, when in reality, their security software has failed them.

I’ll share just a few of the many threads I spotted on this topic. Here are one, two, three and four threads, with different issues, but all seem to be due to malware issues.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

I often see threads in the various discussion forums online with people complaining that the Google search results look weird. They often complain the wrong sites come up, or they are full of ads or there are weird pop ups. The answer to these issues is often that their computers have been infected with some form of virus and/or malware.

Google has a specific FAQ page just to help people with this issue. You can find the page under the title Suspicious results and strange behavior: Strange pop-ups and other malware. If you have a similar issue, make sure to check out that page asap and take the necessary action to cleanse your computer.

As Google becomes more popular and less savvy searchers use computers and Google, more and more people get hit by these viruses. I believe this weekend had one of the higher levels of reports in the various forums, with complaints of this nature. Unsuspecting searchers, complaining that Google failed them, when in reality, their security software has failed them.

I’ll share just a few of the many threads I spotted on this topic. Here are one, two, three and four threads, with different issues, but all seem to be due to malware issues.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Microsoft Bing Says They Are “Fairly Slow”

Bing Recommends Submitting to Digg & Yahoo Buzz for Indexing Boost

Bing Doesn’t Support the Canonical Tag At All Right Now

Bing Requires 3 MSNBot Crawls To Register 301 Redirects

Google Updates Keyword Tool in Webmaster Tools: Updates Daily & Shows More Detail

Higher Counts of Malware Taking Over Google Search Results?

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