The Project: Page Rank Update
Search EnginesNote: If you are unaware of The Project topic, please read the previous parts The Project: pt1 , pt2, pt3I usually have a pretty good hunch of future PR updates, and it was accurate...
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By: Rand Fishkin
A Visit to GooglePlex Irvine
Search EnginesA big thanks to Zachary Applegate from Plumber Surplus for contributing this blog on the subject of his team's recent visit to Google's Irvine complex. Hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I have: While our small team from PlumberSurplus.com was excited to be able to go to the Google open house in their new Irvine California office, we were u...
By: Rand Fishkin
Google Adds Dropdown Arrows to Some Listings in the SERPs
Search EnginesNew interface feature from Google - I'll dub it "Google Arrows." I was shocked to see this new feature in my Google SERPs today. It doesn't require personalization to be turned on, and it appears (for me at least) across an incredible variety of search results. It appears to correspond somewhat with the multiple page listings that often follow highly trafficked or searched-for...
The Project: Generating AdSense Revenue From Low Traffic Site (pt3)
Search EnginesNote: If you are unaware of The Project topic, please read the previous parts: The project: In the beginning (pt1) The project: ... there was Silence. (pt2) Pretty often I hear people complaining about how hard it is to generate revenue from low tra...
By: Rand Fishkin
Lord of Yahoo!'s Short Tail
Search EnginesSomeone has Yahoo!'s number down cold. Ranking on page one for thousands of the most popular search phrases in existence, the site isn't even offering content of its own - instead, they're aggregating content from others and serving what is, in essence, duplicated content that's been scraped and re-packaged. Their business model? Serving ads... What are they ranking for? phot...
By: Rand Fishkin
What I Learned from Yahoo!'s Analyst Day
Search EnginesSome terrific charts, stats and research came out of Yahoo!'s Analyst Day PDF file (too bad it's a PDF). I thought it would be worthwhile to explore some of the trends Yahoo! is pointing to out of self-interest and expand their definition for the whole of the web industry: ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Top Ten Twisted Trends
Search EnginesI'm fairly sure this is exactly what the Google programming team had in mind when they created Trends - a list of geeky searches that produced humorous graphs. Here goes: #10 - Spending Christmas by YourselfFolks seem to be getting lonely around t...
By: Rand Fishkin
The Yahoo! vs. AdSense Rumor
Search EnginesI keep getting bugs in my ear (or little birdies) dropping hints that Yahoo!'s organic search is predisposed against websites serving AdSense. That' s not to say that many sites serving the Google ads don't rank well at Yahoo!, but rather that Yahoo! has some negative associations with AdSense serving content and won't be as friendly as they should be. I've heard this rumor two way...
By: Rand Fishkin
Dilbert on Google
Search EnginesVia an email from Joe Morin - Scott Adams takes a stab at the 'plex: ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Reading Between the Lines on MC's Response to Sandbox Questions
Search EnginesI want to send out a big, electronic hug (and possibly another bottle of scotch) to Mike Grehan (wherever he might be this week). During his hour-long interview with Matt Cutts, Mike asked some of the very best questions I've heard/seen in the search industry field. Not only that, he got some real answers. From ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Yahoo!'s Most Popular Search Term?
Search EnginesWhy, it's the same as MSN's... "Google." But, Yahoo! is fighting back by placing a Yahoo! search box at the top of the SERPs on a Google search: I real...
By: EGOL
Google Trends is Awesome!
Search EnginesHey,If you have not seen Google Trends yet, better get over there right now and sniff around. It is exactly like Zeitgeist but you can type in any term that you want and see a whole lot of really cool data.For example....
By: Rand Fishkin
Comments in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
Search EnginesYahoo! seems to be the only engine celebrating Cinco De Mayo with their logo today (though it's still early). Sadly, if you click on that logo, you get this page on the "buzz log" for the celebration. Problem is... Yahoo! allows unchecked comments here and people have been using it as a political forum regarding recent ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Google's Arrogance - A Sign of Things to Come
Search EnginesThese search result counts threw me for a loop: "microsoft's arrogance" - 1,380 results "yahoo's arrogance" - 7,980 results "...