Problems with Cache Data
Many SEO’s realized that cache data was not showing up accurately even though index reports were showing otherwise.
source: promotionworld.com by Roger Janik
source : googleblog
Conclusion: Thanx Google! this is great by which there won't be any more conflicts :)
"Business as usual " - Pravish Thomas
While Google doesn't have relationships with any SEOs...Now it does -- it owns an SEO. And therein lies the problem. Even if Performics is kept completely separate from the Google search team, there's the impression that Performics might have some special "in" with Google's non-paid search results.
DON’T BE EVIL
Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
Google users trust our systems to help them with important decisions: medical, financial and many others. Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective, and we do not accept payment for them or for inclusion or more frequent updating.
We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and we will not accept payment for inclusion or ranking in them.
Objectivity. We believe it is very important that the results users get from Google are produced with only their interests in mind. We do not accept money for search result ranking or inclusion. We do accept fees for advertising, but it does not influence how we generate our search results. The advertising is clearly marked and separated. This is similar to a newspaper, where the articles are independent of the advertising. Some of our competitors charge web sites for inclusion in their indices or for more frequent updating of pages. Inclusion and frequent updating in our index are open to all sites free of charge. We apply these principles to each of our products and services. We believe it is important for users to have access to the best available information and research, not just the information that someone pays for them to see.Google official stance?Ans: We intend to spend the next several months assessing all of DoubleClick's products and services including those offered by Performics. In the near term, we intend to operate Performics as a stand-alone business unit consistent with its past practices. Upon the completion of our integration planning with respect to Performics, we will be in a better position to announce our future plans for this business.Conclusion:A purchase initially worth more than $3 billion, and Google still hasn't assessed that Performics poses such a huge conflict to own? Disappointing. Google should have announced a spin-off yesterday. I'd hope they'll rapidly move forward with doing that.
My conclusion (SEO pravish): I agree to fact of Danny Sullivan- this would create a great conflict - A major impact and all the rules would be broken.
Will the paid inclusions would ruin Organic Rankings? Need to see in the coming days
SEO's be ready for SURVIVAL!!!!!!!!!!!
source: searchengineland
Sophos detects a newly infected Web page every 14 seconds. Eighty-three percent of those pages belong to companies and individuals who are unaware that their sites have been hacked.
"We've seen some pretty scary holes through random tests with the scanner in North America, Europe and the Middle East," Ruffin said. "If I were a government, a large corporation, or anyone with a large web site, I'd be downloading this beast and aiming it at my site yesterday. The vulnerabilities are that serious."
Microsoft executives cited industry data showing Google has a 75 percent share of worldwide Web search revenue. Collectively, Yahoo and Microsoft attract around 20 percent of Web searches, Internet measurement firms show.
"Today, Google is the dominant search engine and advertising company on the Web," Smith said in replying to Google on Sunday. "Google has amassed about 75 percent of paid search revenues worldwide and its share continues to grow."
SEO - Outdated techniques :
· Link brokers - networks
· Buying directory links
· Using subdomains to own the SERPs
· Pay per Post sponsored blog post networks
· And 10 blue links
· “Irrelevant Reciprocal Links”
Google can pick out cloaked paid links. So avoid paid links and brokers.
By SEO Pravish
Google has updated to maintain accurate meta tags to understand more accurately crawl, index and return sites in search results.
Here's how Google would interpret meta tags of this sample HTML page:
description content : utilized by Google, can be shown in our search results
revisit-after content=14 days not utilized by Google or other major search engines
verify-v1 content optional, for Google webmaster tools
While the use of a description meta tag is optional and will have no effect on your rankings, a good description can result in a better snippet, which in turn can help to improve the quality and quantity of visitors from our search results.
source : googlewebmastercentral.blogspot
Google's shares kissed the US$700 mark in early morning trading Wednesday, marking a new first for the Internet giant and its soaring stock price.