Cloudflare’s Pay Per Crawl campaign from an SEO-led PR perspective
Cloudflare turned a bold idea into a market-defining move – earning 2,000+ backlinks, lifting branded searches, and shaping AI visibility.
Topic: Hacker News
YouTube is deliberately ‘suboptimal’ for people using ad blockers
Ad blocker users may experience five-second delays in loading video pages, irrespective of their browser choice on YouTube.
‘Untitled’ search results sending users to spam sites, Google ‘working on it’
There are multiple reports about 'Untitled' title tags appearing in Google's search results that redirect users to spam sites.
According To Google, Barack Obama Is King Of The United States
Ask Google who is the [King Of United States] and Google will inform you that it is Barack Obama, the current President of the United States. The Google Answer is pulled from Breitbart, a story they posted five days ago named All Hail King Barack Obama, Emperor Of The United States Of America! It appears […]
Google Says Indexing Its Own Results Was Mistake, Will Be Fixed
Over the week, there were various reports of Google going against its own webmaster guidelines, by indexing its own search results. Last night, Google updated its robot.txt file to ensure it blocks its own search results from being in the Google search results. The guidelines read: Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that […]
Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links
The major travel website, Expedia, seems to have lost 25% of their search visibility in Google according to Search Metrics. It appears that drop was due to an unnatural link penalty, where Nenad called out Expedia over a month ago for possible paid links on article sites. Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft noticed a […]
Mystery Solved: Why Mobile Safari Searchers Appear To Come “Direct” To Sites Rather Than Via Google
Since September, people using Safari in iOS 6 and searching on Google have appeared to publishers as if they’ve come directly to their sites, as opposed to having been driving by search. At last, the reason behind the Dark Google cut-off of data has been found: mobile Safari doesn’t support the “meta referrer” tag. I […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 19, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Important Trends Affecting The Local, Social & Mobile Industry On Tuesday last week, London hosted the Local Social Summit 2012, the fourth year this great (and growing) summit has been […]
Google: Want To Switch To HTTPS? Go Ahead!
Google’s Matt Cutts said on a Hacker News comment that those who are interested in switching their whole web site from http to https should go ahead and do that. I spotted this comment in response to Facebook going HTTPS by default, where someone mentioned that Google may have an issue indexing HTTPS content. Matt […]
No, Microsoft Didn’t “Disappear” Kogan From Bing Over The “IE7 Tax”
Shopping site Kogan imposes an “Internet Explorer 7” tax. Kogan then mysteriously disappears from Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Revenge? No, just a technical goof, says Microsoft, one that it is correcting. Kogan grabbed headlines last month when it began adding an additional 6.8% charge to purchases for those using Internet Explorer 7. Calling it the “Internet […]
Google Clarifies: No, Ads Shouldn’t Help Rankings & No, SEO Isn’t Bad
“SEO isn’t good for users” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug” are two quotes from a Google employee that go directly against things Google’s said before. The real truth emerging? More like a new Google employee who doesn’t seem to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot At Sphinn: Google Favoritism In Search Results, Eric Schmidt Steps Down & More The idea that Google might be favoring its own properties and content in search results was a […]
Google May Let You Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam
Ready for do-it-yourself spam fighting? Google has discussed giving searchers the ability to remove domains from its search results. That’s according to Matt Cutts, Google’s top spam fighter, who’s been posting frequently in a Hacker News discussion about Google’s search quality/spam blog post from Friday morning. In the discussion, Hacker News user “bradly” asks if […]
First Day Review: The Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook
My Google Chrome Cr-48 notebook has just arrived. For my first day with it, I decided a good torture test would be to unplug my Windows 7 machine and see how the Google laptop worked in its place. Let’s go!
Video: Google Translate Beatbox
The web is buzzing about how you can use Google Translate to make a neat beatbox. This came via Reddit and all you need to do is go to Google Translate, set the settings to translate from German and to German. Then copy and paste the following text and hit “listen.” pv zk pv pv […]