Tag Archives: SEO

Wed 24th September 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
SEO’s contend lapsed domains are being targeted by Google - Some people think Google is using expired domain info to track down so-called “Private Blog Networks”. About ten years ago I made a mint from expired domains. These weren’t good expired domains. They were just domains that had been used before, had lots of incoming links and nice Google juice. I’d slap up a site full of pretty crappy content and wait for the search engines to come slurp it up. The ad clicks tallied up to over $1,000 a day for a short while. ... read more ...
Fri 15th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google’s Response to Negative SEO Extortion “No Bueno” - Hi Rannvijay, Thanks for your reply. I must admit I’m amazed at the costs of your service! Only $1,500 for 20,000 links??? That’s only 8p a link! What a bargain! How can you even afford to pay someone to do that for so little money is beyond me. Either you pay your guys a very minimum wage or they’re incredibly efficient coders. Which is it? I’d love to know your secret. We’ve got engineers here and they’d laughed at me if I asked them to add a link to a page for 8p! What CMS do you use? ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2014
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The Google Penguin has turn a Punisher - Has the Google Penguin become the punisher ? Eric Enge wrote a very good article on Search Engine Land that took a look at how punitive the Google Penguin really is. Enge expressed that he had a heavy heart with relation to the unforgiving nature of the Penguin. Enge gives those webmasters new to the game a primer on how the Penguin came to be: History Of Penguin The first release of Penguin took place on April 24, 2012, and it landed on the industry like a ton of bricks. From my perspective, everything ... read more ...
Mon 28th July 2014
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3D Search Engine Launching to Protect 3D Content - The longest comment thread in the history of domaining is the post that Michael wrote four years ago about 3D, it has 5,371 comments. So for those interested in the topic of 3D there is a new search engine launching on a .es domain is all about 3D content, the engine will be using the domain hack 3Dshap.es. Jennifer Hicks of  Forbes covered the launch and went over what the future growth rates for 3D content look like. Jennifer also gave some background into the funding and who is behind this new ... read more ...
Fri 18th July 2014
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Yahoo’s Share of Search Is Under 10% For 1st Time Ever & All Time Low - SearchEngineLand.com, is reporting that Yahoo’s share of search traffic has fallen below 10% for the first time and marks an all time low. “”Yahoo’s share has now fallen below 10 percent. “This is an “all-time low.” The combined Yahoo-Bing “search alliance” share remains flat at 29%: Bing growth has  almost entirely been at Yahoo’s expense. Here are the figures for June: Google: 67.6% Bing: 19.2% Yahoo: 9.8% Others: 3.4% According to the post, these figures do NOT include mobile ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2014
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Is SEO on a verge of annihilation ? - Where is SEO Headed ? Andrew Edwards wrote an article on Click Z asking the question, “Is SEO dead ?” Edwards seems to believe that Google taking away the keyword data makes SEO less valuable as a major support system has been taken away. Edwards points out that it is in the best interest of Google to try to undermine SEO, There is no good reason for Google to stop trying to stamp out SEO, because in effect, SEO damps the quality of search results for the user. Google is interested in the user ... read more ...
Wed 9th July 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Experiment Shows Up to 60 % of Direct Traffic is Really Organic Search - Gene McKenna wrote an interesting article on Search Engine Land, that referenced an experiment that showed up to 60 % of direct traffic was actually organic search. In testing with default browser settings, they found differences based on whether someone performed a search at Google directly vs. in a browser’s search box. From the article: Everyone knows that browsers don’t always report where visitors came from when they arrive at a website. When they don’t report where they were in the Hypertext ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2014
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Google Releases Data to Help With Adwords Confusion - Google has released a couple pieces of data over the last two days that are worth reviewing for those who use the Google Adwords product. Google released a white paper to try to dispel some myths when it comes to the subject of quality score. As Ginny Marvin pointed out on Search Engine Land, There has always been a healthy amount of debate over the importance of Quality Score as an indicator of Google AdWords success and the amount of focus that should be devoted to it. Today, Google issued a whitepaper ... read more ...
 
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Forget.me Is Launched To Help European Citizens Enforce Their Right To Be Forgotten -   SearchEngineLand.com just covered the launch of another great .Me domain name, Forget.me which is an online service which acts  “as a middleman between an individual and Google…catering to individuals who want to exercise their right to be forgotten” A recent European Court ruling search engine must provide to its citizens the :right to be forgotten” and allow them to  demand that certain links be removed from search engine results. Forget.me says: “Exercise your Google “right to ... read more ...
Mon 9th June 2014
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Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud - Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud.  PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the display URL of their own advertisement. From the article: When you first hear about PPC fraud rings, you tend to think of click fraud where an automated system, not a real person, is generating fake clicks on an advertiser’s ad. However, PPC impersonation ... read more ...
Fri 6th June 2014
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eBay: Search Ads Have No Measurable Benefit - eBay study warns search ads have ‘no measurable benefit The Guardian did a story on the efficacy of paid search based on a study conducted by eBay From the article: Customers are just as likely to click on natural search results as paid ads, a US study has found, raising questions about the efficacy of the multi-billion dollar search advertising market. The researchers found that most search adverts on most search terms had very little affect on sales at all – and warn that the medium may be ... read more ...
Sun 1st June 2014
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Counterfeiters Using Google Adwords is a Big Problem - Randy Pickard made a guest post on Search Engine Land that took a look at all the counterfeiters buying ads on Google that trick consumers into buying knock off goods. The article looked at a few categories, one being prom dresses. From the article: Among the websites buying AdWords sponsored ads for [prom dress] related terms, approximately half of these websites are filled with copyright-infringing photos of designer dresses. The prom and special-occasion dress product categories are target rich ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2014
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How one Google Algorithm Change Can Damage A Business - There was an article over at Motley Fool yesterday by Adam Levy that took a look at how one Google algorithm changed can ruin a business. The article discussed the recent Panda change and the effect on RetailMeNot. From the article: Last week, shares of RetailMeNot (NASDAQ: SALE  ) slid over 20% over the course of two days after a report from SearchMetrics found that the website’s visibility had fallen 33% on Google’s search engine. The decline came after Google released an update to its search ... read more ...
Fri 23rd May 2014
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RetailMeNot Sees it Stock Get Whacked By Google Algorithm Update - RetailMeNot is see its stock get hit hard by the recent Google algorithm change. Barry Schwartz wrote on Search Engine Land: On Tuesday, Google pushed out their revised Panda Algorithm code-named Panda 4.0. Panda is designed to remove low-quality content from Google’s search results. Yesterday, we published an early Winners Losers report on which large sites were impacted the most both in a positive and negative way. RetailMeNot was one of the larger sites on the losers list, where Searchmetrics ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Extends “Not Provided” to Paid Search - Google is making a change that will bring paid search in line with organic search when it comes to relaying referrer information. Now when people using secure search click on AdWords ads, they will not have their search query show up in the referrer string, this info will no longer be available in analytics packages and third party providers of related software. Ginny Marvin wrote on Search Engine Land: As suspected, Google is moving to secure search for clicks on paid search ads. In an announcement ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2014
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Microsoft and a Bing Entity Engine - Frederic Lardinois wrote a piece on Tech Crunch tonight about Microsoft and their plan for their entity engine. The entity engine is Microsoft’s answer to the Google Knowledge Graph. These products are not the most desirable from a web developer standpoint. Google and Bing would both like to give people using their search engine a direct answer, keep them on their site and lessen the need to click through to a website. This will certainly not affect all niches, but someone running something like ... read more ...
Sat 15th March 2014
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1% of Search Advertisers Drive 82 % of Clicks - Laurie Sullivan wrote on MediaPost that only 1% of search advertisers drive 82% of clicks. If you believe the results of a recent study examining Google AdWords clicks, it may seem that most marketers still don’t know how to run a successful paid-search campaign. While many think they do, only the top 1% of search advertisers in the categories of Retail, Hotels Resorts, and Computer Hardware drive an average of 82% of search clicks in each category across the United States, the United Kingdom ... read more ...
 
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Matt Cutts Talks About a Softer Panda and a Boost for Sites Using SSL - Matt Cutts had a few things to say at  SMX West regarding potential future moves at Google. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable wrote that Cutts would like to give a boost to sites using SSL. At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014. At the end of the session, I asked Matt if this means Google is looking to give sites that enable SSL a ranking boost. Matt Cutts ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2014
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Google Scrapping Banner Ad Experiment - Harrison Weber is reporting on Venture Beat and Ginn Marvin is reporting on Marketing Land,  that Google is going to scrap its banner ad experiment. Google started showing banner ads last October which sparked many to become upset as Google had long promised not to show banner ads in search results. From the article: VentureBeat can confirm that banner ads for original partner companies, like SouthWest Airlines, are no longer visible in our own tests — of course, there’s still a chance that ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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Big Changes Coming To Google Search Results - Jayson DeMers wrote a very detailed and well thought out post about Google and coming changes in search.  In the article DeMers discusses that search will change to accomodate a more mobile world, that SEO professionals will have to adapt and change as well. All things search must evolve. DeMers goes on to discuss that there will be more color and more information, targeted data to get users what they need faster. He goes on at length to discuss the rise of the Knowledge Graph. From the article: Google’s ... read more ...
Sun 2nd March 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Starting To Show Full Restaurant Menu in Search Results - Another potential risk with very specific niche gtlds is that something can come along and change the game. Something that has nothing to do with domain names can still come along and affect the niche extension. The Apple iPhone and its .com button along with how smartphones easily rendered a website on a phone was a big hit to .mobi. The .menu extension has already been delegated and four companies are vying to run .restaurant. Tech Crunch did a post yesterday which expanded on something I saw ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty - Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable  about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the penalty will flow because of the redirects. That is known. What I did not know is that if you took your site and moved it to a new domain but did not redirect the old domain to the new, that Google may also pass along the penalty without redirecting the ... read more ...
Sat 22nd February 2014
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Could Watson Change Search As We Know It ? - Daniel Newman wrote a piece on Millenial CEO that took a look at Watson, the super computer from IBM. Newman explores the possibility if Watson could change the search landscape. Just Google It…Everyone Else Does Right now when we want to know more about something, anything, we Google it; this isn’t an exception, this is the rule. In fact, 74% of the entire population turns to Google to start their information finding efforts. This trend has been on the rise for sometime and as we have become ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
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Lush Cosmetics Wins Trademark Battle With Amazon - Lush Cosmetics has won its high-profile trademark battle with Amazon, with the High Court ruling against the retail giant’s use of the word ‘lush’ in its search marketing. Insider Media covered the story, The cosmetics business, which is headquartered in Poole, took legal action against Amazon.co.uk and Amazon EU after complaining that the retailer was infringing its trademark. Lush does not permit its cosmetics to be sold on Amazon. However, visitors who typed ‘lush’ into the search box ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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Domaining for Links - Peter van der Graaf wrote an article today on Search Engine Watch that deals with domaining for links. Van der Graaf writes that even though this is old school it is still a method that works for acquiring link value. From the article: What Domains Do You Buy? Domains with link value become available once the current owner has little use for it anymore. This happens in various occasions, which all have their unique signal for Google to pick up and act on when they suspect unnatural behavior. Expired ... read more ...