It very much looks like it… Scoble reports that when searching in Google for Microsoft’s researcher Susan Dumais you’ll get a specific Google Jobs ad on top of the page.
Search for other Microsoft employees does not seem to trigger any similar ads…
The above issue is addressed in a post named Warning: mass local language inbound links can damage your health. The idea is that since Google places a lot of weight on anchor text in determining relevance, having disproportionate amount of backlinks in different languages, may cause your site to disappear from the index…
Google chooses the […]
Yahoo has added their own version of sitemaps, but this time created a simplified version. No need for special tools, nor XML knowledge. Just a simple text file with one address listed in each line.
To submit go here: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request. As you may notice they added the following line:
You can also provide the location of a […]
After advertisers calling Google over and over to raise the amount of Adsense channels allowed per advertiser, they announced today that Adsense now supports 200 channels.
If you weren’t sure how you were going to track the performance of all of your new pages, your worries are over! We’ve increased the number of AdSense channels […]
With the beta release of YPN! and in an attempt to “keep up with the emerging competition” Google has added an interesting new feature to Adsense called Section Targeting, as reviewed by Jansense:
Section targeting allows you to essentially declare certain parts of the on-page content as off-limits to the mediapartners bot, effectively allowing you to […]
In the past week since launching their new sponsored listings I’ve seen many forum posts inquiring about results, and any experience with that program, however, today I noticed some people posting about their experience in the past week:
I have been live since monday as well, and I am quite happy with the results. It […]
Barry points out a forum thread referencing the list of publishers / sources for MSNBC’s Newsbot.
It seems like it is fairly easy to get included in this list, just submit your news source and wait.
Backlink analisys tools often provide a wealth of information about sites and their linking strategies. Problem is that most quality tools cost $$ and some people are either broke or a bit sketchy spending money on such tools (as I’ve been). However, this weekend, Aaron has launched his own Backlink Analisys Tool but this time […]
Great post by Matt Cutts of Google named SEO Mistakes: sneaky JavaScript warns SEO’s and webmasters in general of using javascript redirects in doorway / spam pages.
This time he gives a great example of a site which created dozens of auto generated content pages that not only make no sense, but even redirects to the […]
It is now official, WebmasterWorld Search & Marketing Conference will be held in Las Vegas.
They have also launched a new website for show information, speakers and times at http://www.pubcon.com/.
Dates: November 15-17, 2005
City: Las Vegas Nevada
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center
Keynote Speaker : Robert Cringely
As a long time Las Vegas resident, I am looking forward to this […]
