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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 22, 2010

On January 22, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

In this weeks recap, we go a bit all over the place to get through the most important topics we covered in the past 7 days. We talked about a study that showed the minor impact Google personalized search has on SEO. There may have been a Yahoo Search update this week. Microsoft says they will purge their search data within 6 months. Bing’s auto-search suggestions get more current. Bing also shows search results for related queries. Google increased the Sitemaps limit. Google AdWords now has four professional exams. Yahoo released the network distribution feature, finally. SEOmoz built Open Site Explorer, a neat new useful tool. Google Maps lets you add real time content to your business listing. Don’t use the same phone number as your competitor, if you don’t want issues on your Google local listing. Search for Jesus on Google Images and you’ll catch him smoking and drinking. Google continues to cash in, they announced awesome 4th quarter earnings. SEO is being trademarked again, but the story is different. Martin Luther King day was this week, we have the logos for you. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on iTunes to be notified of these updates and download the video in the background. Here is the YouTube version of the feed:

For the original iTunes version, click here or to see the YouTube version in higher quality, click play & hit “HD.”

Search Topics of Discussion:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!

In this weeks recap, we go a bit all over the place to get through the most important topics we covered in the past 7 days. We talked about a study that showed the minor impact Google personalized search has on SEO. There may have been a Yahoo Search update this week. Microsoft says they will purge their search data within 6 months. Bing’s auto-search suggestions get more current. Bing also shows search results for related queries. Google increased the Sitemaps limit. Google AdWords now has four professional exams. Yahoo released the network distribution feature, finally. SEOmoz built Open Site Explorer, a neat new useful tool. Google Maps lets you add real time content to your business listing. Don’t use the same phone number as your competitor, if you don’t want issues on your Google local listing. Search for Jesus on Google Images and you’ll catch him smoking and drinking. Google continues to cash in, they announced awesome 4th quarter earnings. SEO is being trademarked again, but the story is different. Martin Luther King day was this week, we have the logos for you. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on iTunes to be notified of these updates and download the video in the background. Here is the YouTube version of the feed:

For the original iTunes version, click here or to see the YouTube version in higher quality, click play & hit “HD.”

Search Topics of Discussion:

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!

First Image for Jesus in Google Images is Offensive

On January 20, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

If you search for [Jesus] in Google Images you may notice that the first image has a picture of Jesus smoking a cigaret, with a can of beer in his hand. Here is a picture of the search result:

A searcher complained about this at the Google Web Search Help forums yesterday. So far, there has been no reply by anyone, including a Googler.

I doubt Google will remove the image result. These types of issues come up fairly frequently. The latest one was when Michelle Obama’s image was racist and Google did not remove it, but rather bought an ad explaining why the result was not removed. So I doubt Google will make changes to this image result.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

If you search for [Jesus] in Google Images you may notice that the first image has a picture of Jesus smoking a cigaret, with a can of beer in his hand. Here is a picture of the search result:

A searcher complained about this at the Google Web Search Help forums yesterday. So far, there has been no reply by anyone, including a Googler.

I doubt Google will remove the image result. These types of issues come up fairly frequently. The latest one was when Michelle Obama’s image was racist and Google did not remove it, but rather bought an ad explaining why the result was not removed. So I doubt Google will make changes to this image result.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

January 2010 Google Webmaster Report

On January 5, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick

Every month we do a recap of the past month of Google changes based on an ongoing WebmasterWorld thread. To see last month’s report, see the December 2009 Google webmaster report.

The thread doesn’t really have many changes being reported. Most people are on the look out for the Caffeine index going live across all or more data centers. However, we have not really seen that happent yet. Maybe it will later this month, but as of now, there are not signs that Caffeine is live on a larger scale than the single data center. There are some discussions of normal flux and changes in the SERPs, that coincided with the New Years PageRank update, but not are all on the same page about that.

In any event, here are the key changes over the past month at Google, since our last report:

Google SEO/Webmaster Related:

Google User Interface/SERP Related:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Every month we do a recap of the past month of Google changes based on an ongoing WebmasterWorld thread. To see last month’s report, see the December 2009 Google webmaster report.

The thread doesn’t really have many changes being reported. Most people are on the look out for the Caffeine index going live across all or more data centers. However, we have not really seen that happent yet. Maybe it will later this month, but as of now, there are not signs that Caffeine is live on a larger scale than the single data center. There are some discussions of normal flux and changes in the SERPs, that coincided with the New Years PageRank update, but not are all on the same page about that.

In any event, here are the key changes over the past month at Google, since our last report:

Google SEO/Webmaster Related:

Google User Interface/SERP Related:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google AdWords Images With Girls in Thongs Allowed?

On December 29, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

I was searching for a logo of a company, I searched Google Images for [compucall logo] and I was presented with an AdWords ad, but one of those product image ads. Google began allowing these ads a few months back, they are called product image ads in AdWords.

But what stood out was that this image was of a woman in thong underwear. Here is a picture:

I wonder what type of click through rate this ad gets?

I wonder if Google has a policy against these types of images on their search pages? I don’t really see anything in the Google FAQs on these product extensions, but I can be missing it.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

I was searching for a logo of a company, I searched Google Images for [compucall logo] and I was presented with an AdWords ad, but one of those product image ads. Google began allowing these ads a few months back, they are called product image ads in AdWords.

But what stood out was that this image was of a woman in thong underwear. Here is a picture:

I wonder what type of click through rate this ad gets?

I wonder if Google has a policy against these types of images on their search pages? I don’t really see anything in the Google FAQs on these product extensions, but I can be missing it.

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.

Google Images Bug Shifts Images Off Search Results Page

On December 22, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

I am seeing random reports, now a total of three individual reports, in the Google Web Search Help forums where users are reporting that Google Images search results are going off the page.

One user posted a picture, which describes the issue. Here is a picture:

It seems like the first row of images is shown on the far left side of the browser and then the rest are displayed down the row, but under the fold. One person explained:

All the images are on the left side of the page going down the page. You can bearly see the image and it is very anouying!! How do u make it so it is back to the normal way, were the images go across the page instear of going down????

Googler, Jem thinks this is some type of browser bug. Jem asked the users to clear their cookies and try again. Jem is also asking users for more feedback so they can debug the issue.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

I am seeing random reports, now a total of three individual reports, in the Google Web Search Help forums where users are reporting that Google Images search results are going off the page.

One user posted a picture, which describes the issue. Here is a picture:

It seems like the first row of images is shown on the far left side of the browser and then the rest are displayed down the row, but under the fold. One person explained:

All the images are on the left side of the page going down the page. You can bearly see the image and it is very anouying!! How do u make it so it is back to the normal way, were the images go across the page instear of going down????

Googler, Jem thinks this is some type of browser bug. Jem asked the users to clear their cookies and try again. Jem is also asking users for more feedback so they can debug the issue.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google Images Trying Bing’s “Infinite Scroll”?

On December 14, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

I may be totally misunderstanding a post from swainzy in Cre8asite Forums, but maybe not. Swainzy is upset that she cannot change the number of results shown in Google Image Search, just like this person at the Google Web Search Help thread.

But what Swainzy added later seemed to imply to me that Google is testing Bing’s infinite scroll feature, which continues to show you more and more pictures as you scroll the page.

She said:

G. may be over riding how many images you can see on one page but wow, it’s much faster and the new page stays where you were on the last page. So if you are at the bottom, you don’t have to see the image ads anymore.

Is Google copying Bing, who copied someone else?

I personally like the infinite scroll on Bing. Give it a try for red panda at Bing, just scroll and you will see what I mean.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.

Update: Google confirmed this test, a spokesperson told me:

We’re continually testing new interfaces and features to enhance the user experience. What you describe below was one such test, which only a small percentage of users saw. We don’t have any additional details to share at this time but I hope that helps. For more information on the experiments we run, please see: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html

I may be totally misunderstanding a post from swainzy in Cre8asite Forums, but maybe not. Swainzy is upset that she cannot change the number of results shown in Google Image Search, just like this person at the Google Web Search Help thread.

But what Swainzy added later seemed to imply to me that Google is testing Bing’s infinite scroll feature, which continues to show you more and more pictures as you scroll the page.

She said:

G. may be over riding how many images you can see on one page but wow, it’s much faster and the new page stays where you were on the last page. So if you are at the bottom, you don’t have to see the image ads anymore.

Is Google copying Bing, who copied someone else?

I personally like the infinite scroll on Bing. Give it a try for red panda at Bing, just scroll and you will see what I mean.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.

Update: Google confirmed this test, a spokesperson told me:

We’re continually testing new interfaces and features to enhance the user experience. What you describe below was one such test, which only a small percentage of users saw. We don’t have any additional details to share at this time but I hope that helps. For more information on the experiments we run, please see: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html

Google Images “See Full Size Image” Frame Missing For Some?

On December 10, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

A Google Web Search Help thread reports several users not being able to see the frame at the top of the Google Image searches. I initially thought it had to do with frame busters of some sort, but it seems more wide spread than that. Maybe Google is dropping the framed image feature? I am not sure.

I personally see the frame with the “see full size image” option link:

It really seems to be that this is a frame buster type of thing going on. Frame busting is code that prevents other sites from framing you site in their site, like Google Images does after you initially click on an image result.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

A Google Web Search Help thread reports several users not being able to see the frame at the top of the Google Image searches. I initially thought it had to do with frame busters of some sort, but it seems more wide spread than that. Maybe Google is dropping the framed image feature? I am not sure.

I personally see the frame with the “see full size image” option link:

It really seems to be that this is a frame buster type of thing going on. Frame busting is code that prevents other sites from framing you site in their site, like Google Images does after you initially click on an image result.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

December 2009 Google Webmaster Report

On December 9, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

This is the last Google Webmaster Report of 2009 and it was a pretty busy month. The main changes this past month was Caffeine going live on one data center, the new user fade in interface is live, personalized search becoming the default and Google’s attempts to appease the news business.

You can read last months report in the November ’09 webmaster write up. The new WebmasterWorld thread does not have a lot of new chatter going on. The normal ranking fluctuations discussions are going on. One person said the UK results match the US results on November 4th. But overall, not much chatter in that thread going on.

Here are the Google highlights for the past month:

Google UI Changes:

Google Policy Change:

First Five Click Free Program: Google Revises FCF Program

Google SEO Related:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

This is the last Google Webmaster Report of 2009 and it was a pretty busy month. The main changes this past month was Caffeine going live on one data center, the new user fade in interface is live, personalized search becoming the default and Google’s attempts to appease the news business.

You can read last months report in the November ’09 webmaster write up. The new WebmasterWorld thread does not have a lot of new chatter going on. The normal ranking fluctuations discussions are going on. One person said the UK results match the US results on November 4th. But overall, not much chatter in that thread going on.

Here are the Google highlights for the past month:

Google UI Changes:

Google Policy Change:

First Five Click Free Program: Google Revises FCF Program

Google SEO Related:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

(Text) Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 4, 2009

On December 4, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

I am writing this weekly recap while on a flight to Chicago. I won’t be able to do the video version, so hopefully this text version will do. I am on my way to Chicago for Search Engine Strategies 2009. SES is actually when I started this site, six years ago on December 2nd. We have written over 10,000 stories here since and almost 2,000 in the past year alone.

On the search front, Google’s Caffeine index finally made it to a data center. Google added a site performance report to Webmaster Tools to show off page speed. Google also confirmed a Sitelinks bug where you can link to a competitor. On the user interface front, Google decided to go with the fade in home page. They are showing more breadcrumbs as site URLs. They also are using larger images in the search results and region tags for some of the results. Bing went offline for the first time in their short history, it latest for 30 minutes. Bing Maps showed Google they can compete by adding street views and augmented reality. There are stories that Yahoo has begun unbanning web sites from their index. Google AdSense banned a publisher for copyright infringement over their own copyright. Finally, there are tons of more AdWords bans going on right now – I called it the Big Ban of December. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Select Topics For This Past Week:

Misc:

Google Webmaster:

Google User Interface:

Bing:

Yahoo:

Yahoo Search Unbanning Web Sites After Years?

AdSense:

Google AdSense Bans Publisher For Copyright Infringement Over Their Own Copyrights

AdWords:

Google Begins Banning AdWords Advertisers Again: December ’09 Big Ban

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!

I am writing this weekly recap while on a flight to Chicago. I won’t be able to do the video version, so hopefully this text version will do. I am on my way to Chicago for Search Engine Strategies 2009. SES is actually when I started this site, six years ago on December 2nd. We have written over 10,000 stories here since and almost 2,000 in the past year alone.

On the search front, Google’s Caffeine index finally made it to a data center. Google added a site performance report to Webmaster Tools to show off page speed. Google also confirmed a Sitelinks bug where you can link to a competitor. On the user interface front, Google decided to go with the fade in home page. They are showing more breadcrumbs as site URLs. They also are using larger images in the search results and region tags for some of the results. Bing went offline for the first time in their short history, it latest for 30 minutes. Bing Maps showed Google they can compete by adding street views and augmented reality. There are stories that Yahoo has begun unbanning web sites from their index. Google AdSense banned a publisher for copyright infringement over their own copyright. Finally, there are tons of more AdWords bans going on right now – I called it the Big Ban of December. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

Select Topics For This Past Week:

Misc:

Google Webmaster:

Google User Interface:

Bing:

Yahoo:

Yahoo Search Unbanning Web Sites After Years?

AdSense:

Google AdSense Bans Publisher For Copyright Infringement Over Their Own Copyrights

AdWords:

Google Begins Banning AdWords Advertisers Again: December ’09 Big Ban

Please do subscribe via iTunes or on your favorite RSS reader. Don’t forget to comment below with the right answer and good luck!

Larger Google Images & Region Tags In Google Search Results

On December 3, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

Google announced two changes to the search results. The first is larger images in the search results for some searches and the second is region tags in the search results. Let me explain both.

The larger images may show up in the search results, when Google thinks an image should be highlighted. For example, the before and after:

Before:

After:

Google also announced a new regional tag that will show up in certain situations in the Google search results. The region tags tell the searcher that the site is from a specific country or region. This region tag will only show on about 1% of the search results, Google said. And they have to meet these criteria:

We currently show region tags only for certain domains such as .com and .net where the location information would otherwise be unclear. We don’t show region tags for results on domains like .br for Brazil, because the location is already implied by the green URL line in our default display. In addition, we only display region tags when the region supplied by the site owner is different from the domain where the search was entered.

Here is a picture:

Forum discussion at Webmaster World.

Google announced two changes to the search results. The first is larger images in the search results for some searches and the second is region tags in the search results. Let me explain both.

The larger images may show up in the search results, when Google thinks an image should be highlighted. For example, the before and after:

Before:

After:

Google also announced a new regional tag that will show up in certain situations in the Google search results. The region tags tell the searcher that the site is from a specific country or region. This region tag will only show on about 1% of the search results, Google said. And they have to meet these criteria:

We currently show region tags only for certain domains such as .com and .net where the location information would otherwise be unclear. We don’t show region tags for results on domains like .br for Brazil, because the location is already implied by the green URL line in our default display. In addition, we only display region tags when the region supplied by the site owner is different from the domain where the search was entered.

Here is a picture:

Forum discussion at Webmaster World.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 22, 2010

First Image for Jesus in Google Images is Offensive

Google AdWords Images With Girls in Thongs Allowed?

Google Images Bug Shifts Images Off Search Results Page

Google Images Trying Bing’s “Infinite Scroll”?

Google Images “See Full Size Image” Frame Missing For Some?

(Text) Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 4, 2009

Larger Google Images & Region Tags In Google Search Results

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