Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On March 9, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
On March 3, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Below is live coverage of the Optimizing Your Content on YouTube from the SMX West conference.
This coverage is provided by Keri Morgret of Strike Models.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
Optimizing Your Content on YouTube
Below is live coverage of the Optimizing Your Content on YouTube from the SMX West conference.
This coverage is provided by Keri Morgret of Strike Models.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On March 2, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Below is live coverage of the The Current State Of Social Search from the SMX West conference.
This coverage is provided by Brian Ussery of Beu Blog.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
The Current State Of Social Search
Below is live coverage of the The Current State Of Social Search from the SMX West conference.
This coverage is provided by Brian Ussery of Beu Blog.
We are using a live blogging tool to provide the real time coverage, please excuse any typos. You can also interact with us and while we are live blogging, so feel free to ask us questions as we blog. We will publish the archive below after the session is completed.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On February 14, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Today is Valentine’s Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine’s Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums – so make sure to check them out.
Meanwhile, here are the 2010 Valentine’s Day logos – to see the previous years go to Valentine’s 2009, Valentines 2008, Valentines 2007, Valentines 2006 and Valentines 2005.
Update: Although Google shows an Olympics logo, as Michel points out in the comments below, if you hover your mouse over the logo an Alt tag (alternative text tag) pops up saying Valentine’s Day. Plus, the scatting marks shows a heart in the logo – nice touch Google:
Yahoo:
Ask.com:
DogPile:
YouTube:
Cre8asite Forums:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
Today is Valentine's Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine's Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums - so make sure to check them out.
Meanwhile, here are the 2010 Valentine's Day logos - to see the previous years go to Valentine's 2009, Valentines 2008, Valentines 2007, Valentines 2006 and Valentines 2005.
Update: Although Google shows an Olympics logo, as Michel points out in the comments below, if you hover your mouse over the logo an Alt tag (alternative text tag) pops up saying Valentine's Day. Plus, the scatting marks shows a heart in the logo - nice touch Google:
Yahoo:
Ask.com:
DogPile:
YouTube:
Cre8asite Forums:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On February 7, 2010, In SEO, Social Media Marketing, by Social Guy
Wadja.com, a unique social networking site that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has introduced a re-design of its homepage and logo.
Over the last half a year, Wadja has evolved and grown into a unique Social Network that features streamlined, topic-specific conversations based on labels, and messaging. To reflect Wadja’s progress, the company has decided [...]
Wadja.com, a unique social networking site that uses labels to create people-to-topic connections, has introduced a re-design of its homepage and logo.
Over the last half a year, Wadja has evolved and grown into a unique Social Network that features streamlined, topic-specific conversations based on labels, and messaging. To reflect Wadja’s progress, the company has decided to re-brand its homepage and logo.
Maria Papathomopoulou PR Manager at Wadja notes, “We are delighted with the introduction of our new logo and the redesign of our homepage. The new homepage depicts label topics that our users have created, as well as ideas for labels that users could create. It also allows newcomers to the site to test the system before they subscribe to Wadja’s free service. It’s pretty neat! Once you’re in of course, you can do more by inviting friends and contacts to follow your label and create a community to discuss that one specific topic you are all interested in.”
The new logo has been designed in the same vein as the homepage, with Wadja’s own font and style, fresh and forward-looking. Both the logo and the homepage symbolize the new look and feel of the site – simple, clear, bold and different – all standards that Wadja aspires to and represents.
Wadja’s homepage is the window to the social network with a difference; one based on the bold new premise of creating forums (labels) that simplify and streamline social content and the ‘noise’ of real-time information flow, with all the advantages of online messaging and SMS.
The value of labels is derived from enabling the creation of communities that come together through their common interests, hobbies and activities. Wadja creates personal, customized, label “tags” and opens up a whole new world of messaging.
http://www.sociableblog.com
On January 28, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Google ran a Doodle4Google competition in Australia and Jessie won with this Doodle:
When they posted the Doodle on the Google.com.au web site, it was missing the Aboriginal Flag. Here is a picture:
I mentioned this in passing in Google’s Kuwait Doodle mistake. But now, Google came to the Google Web Search Help forums explaining the issue. Jaime from Google said:
Thanks for voicing your concern here in the forum. Just to make sure everyone is aware of what took place I wanted to explain here that due to the Aboriginal Flag having copyright, we requested permission from the Aboriginal Copyright owners to display the original doodle with the flag on the Google homepage. They declined the permission and as such, in consultation with Jessie, we had to gently alter the doodle so we could proudly display her wonderful artwork – of which we are very proud.
It is a shame Google was unable to get rights to show the flag there. But Jessie seemed like a good sport!
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.
Google ran a Doodle4Google competition in Australia and Jessie won with this Doodle:
When they posted the Doodle on the Google.com.au web site, it was missing the Aboriginal Flag. Here is a picture:
I mentioned this in passing in Google's Kuwait Doodle mistake. But now, Google came to the Google Web Search Help forums explaining the issue. Jaime from Google said:
Thanks for voicing your concern here in the forum. Just to make sure everyone is aware of what took place I wanted to explain here that due to the Aboriginal Flag having copyright, we requested permission from the Aboriginal Copyright owners to display the original doodle with the flag on the Google homepage. They declined the permission and as such, in consultation with Jessie, we had to gently alter the doodle so we could proudly display her wonderful artwork - of which we are very proud.
It is a shame Google was unable to get rights to show the flag there. But Jessie seemed like a good sport!
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On January 28, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
This week, Google added personalization to help you find your “favorite locations faster.” The issue is, it slows you down in finding your most favorite location – your home!
A Google Maps Help thread has complaints from people who have saved locations labeled as “home.” Whenever they wanted directions, they typed in “home” or “my home” and bingo, it came up. Now it does not and it requires them to enter in their address, which in turn, slows them down.
The searcher said:
It appears the Google Maps team has replaced the “saved locations” feature with the “personalized search results”. The problem is, when I created my “saved locations” I included some additional information in the names of those entries so they could be easily found by personal names. For instance, if my friend Steve lived at a particular address, I’d save his address into “saved locations” and include the name “Steve” or “Steve’s home”. Then, I was able to start typing “Steve” and it would automatically bring up this saved location.
This is no longer the case. His address is still flagged in my web history and it autocompletes if I start typing in his address… but I can no longer start typing “Steve” to bring up his location.
Any chance we can still get to our “saved locations” data to at least backup the data before you nuke it all for good?
The thread seems to be heating up with angry Google Maps users. The thing is, Google is listening, so it will be interesting to see what changes, if any, they make based on this feedback. Google Maps Linda said:
This is great feedback guys. I’ll be sure to share this with the team. I don’t have an answer right now, but hopefully I will be able to share more later.
Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.
This week, Google added personalization to help you find your "favorite locations faster." The issue is, it slows you down in finding your most favorite location - your home!
A Google Maps Help thread has complaints from people who have saved locations labeled as "home." Whenever they wanted directions, they typed in "home" or "my home" and bingo, it came up. Now it does not and it requires them to enter in their address, which in turn, slows them down.
The searcher said:
It appears the Google Maps team has replaced the "saved locations" feature with the "personalized search results". The problem is, when I created my "saved locations" I included some additional information in the names of those entries so they could be easily found by personal names. For instance, if my friend Steve lived at a particular address, I'd save his address into "saved locations" and include the name "Steve" or "Steve's home". Then, I was able to start typing "Steve" and it would automatically bring up this saved location.This is no longer the case. His address is still flagged in my web history and it autocompletes if I start typing in his address... but I can no longer start typing "Steve" to bring up his location.
Any chance we can still get to our "saved locations" data to at least backup the data before you nuke it all for good?
The thread seems to be heating up with angry Google Maps users. The thing is, Google is listening, so it will be interesting to see what changes, if any, they make based on this feedback. Google Maps Linda said:
This is great feedback guys. I'll be sure to share this with the team. I don't have an answer right now, but hopefully I will be able to share more later.
Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On January 28, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
Clearly, Google News has it’s own algorithms and techniques in ranking stories and articles. Danny has one of the most comprehensive articles on ranking stories in Google News that I know of. But I spotted an interesting thread at the Google News Help forums about how possibly some stories can, over time, hurt your trustworthiness in Google News.
The person is trying to somehow communicate to Google that some of his stories are press releases and wants to tell Google not to index or add them to Google News. Why? Simply because he doesn’t want to impact his “trusted source status” with Google News.
Inbal, the official Google News rep in that forum replied:
Thanks for your honest feedback. I encourage you to submit your press release hubs to our team; this should not have any implications on your current news site’s ranking.
I believe you can even do this type of labeling in the new sitemap format for Google News, which is going to be required soon. Not sure why she didn’t mention that as a solution.
But what takeaways do you get from this? Don’t abuse your Google News access, because Google can drop your rankings in it easily.
Forum discussion at Google News Help.
Clearly, Google News has it's own algorithms and techniques in ranking stories and articles. Danny has one of the most comprehensive articles on ranking stories in Google News that I know of. But I spotted an interesting thread at the Google News Help forums about how possibly some stories can, over time, hurt your trustworthiness in Google News.
The person is trying to somehow communicate to Google that some of his stories are press releases and wants to tell Google not to index or add them to Google News. Why? Simply because he doesn't want to impact his "trusted source status" with Google News.
Inbal, the official Google News rep in that forum replied:
Thanks for your honest feedback. I encourage you to submit your press release hubs to our team; this should not have any implications on your current news site's ranking.
I believe you can even do this type of labeling in the new sitemap format for Google News, which is going to be required soon. Not sure why she didn't mention that as a solution.
But what takeaways do you get from this? Don't abuse your Google News access, because Google can drop your rankings in it easily.
Forum discussion at Google News Help.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
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.
http://www.seroundtable.com/
On January 28, 2010, In SEO, by rustybrick
An Google AdWords Help thread has one company who feels he was scammed by a Google “subcontractor.” His first mistake is not being knowledgeable enough about who he hired. Google does not have “subcontractors” but they do have certified AdWords professionals.
So if you do feel you were done wrong by a certified AdWords professional, you can report them. That is, if they are really an AdWords professional. First make sure they are a a certified professional. If they are, there is a “Report a complaint about this partner” link on their hosted Google page.
Side note: Interesting they call them “partners” here.
Once you click on that link, you are taken to this form, which you can fill out. Google should then review the complaint and take any necessary action they deem appropriate.
Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.
An Google AdWords Help thread has one company who feels he was scammed by a Google "subcontractor." His first mistake is not being knowledgeable enough about who he hired. Google does not have "subcontractors" but they do have certified AdWords professionals.
So if you do feel you were done wrong by a certified AdWords professional, you can report them. That is, if they are really an AdWords professional. First make sure they are a a certified professional. If they are, there is a "Report a complaint about this partner" link on their hosted Google page.
Side note: Interesting they call them "partners" here.
Once you click on that link, you are taken to this form, which you can fill out. Google should then review the complaint and take any necessary action they deem appropriate.
Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.
http://www.seroundtable.com/