Google is updating their PageRank (i.e. green bar addiction) currently. Just a little reminder that this information is 4-6 months old and Google never shares the current information … as they closely guard their algorithm. You can see the number of backlinks that you have by running the link:www.domain.com in a Google search.
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Google Paying for AdWords Referrals
It is finally official. Google is paying $20.00 for every referral to their AdWords program. Get in – get the code – and get some more spending money. I love pure affiliate plays – and this is one of them. Read More Here.
The Irresistible Offer by Mark Joyner
Our Affiliate Manager has done a review on Mark Joyner’s book, the Irresistible Offer. Now, if you know the stunt that Joyner pulled a few years ago when he ’sold’ all of his software to run his business and cheated a lot of people, you may think twice about taking anything he says in a […]
Link Baiting – The New Spam?
Okay, those of you who have read my stuff for years know that my biggest issue is people who believe information posted for free on the web in forums and other areas that have not been tested … the RIGHT way. I have seen some bad information that has been posted AND believed by people […]
Link Baiting
You may or may not be familiar with this term. I have created an article about Link Baiting. This is a MUST READ so you can protect your sites and your business. This practice is getting wide-spread and most of the information is NOT correct and is hurting a lot of good websites out there.
25 Things to Hate About Google
This was originally posted at Search Engine Watch. Our comments are in bold. 1. Web search counts that make no sense. Why do search engines lie? has Robert Scoble recently poking at this, on how the reported counts don’t always match reality. Heck, try class two contributions with “about” 59,800,000 matches. But then you find […]
25 Things to Love about Google
Posted on Search Engine Watch … our commentary is included in bold. 1. Personalized search simply gets better and better. 2. Web search still serves me well. Despite its faults, it’s still great. It gets me to helpful information all the time. 3. News search keeps me informed. Just like web search, news search remains […]
MSN Still Believes Their Own Hype
MSN continues to believe its own hype, and many in the search community are growing wary of this “heavy weight” talking the talk but doing little to back up their words. The latest is Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, as saying that MSN’s new search product would overtake Google in […]
Google Close to Settling in Click Fraud Case
The news off the wire states that this is now a done deal. …it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it. The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Lane’s […]
Search Engine Market Share – January 2006
The latest numbers are in … SEARCH SHARE, Jan ‘06 per Nielsen//Netratings Google Search 48.2% Yahoo! Search 22.2% MSN Search 11.0%
Google Supplemental Results
There is a massive threat going on at Webmaster World regarding the Supplemental Index in Google. We did massive testing on the Supplemental Index this past November and uncovered how to not only avoid the Supplemental Index, but how to get out and stay out. Matt Cutts from Google has said in the past that […]
High Paying Google Adwords/Adsense Revenue Share
Today these keywords were posted as being the high producing keywords for Google Adsense Revenue sharing. Our testing shows differently. If you are a member of the SEO Revolution, you can access our list tomorrow that will show the correct amounts, as these amounts are extremely exaggerated. mesothelioma $84.08 mesothelioma attorneys $80.93 mesothelioma lawyers $69.04 […]
Google Page Creator
Google has released a new tool to make mini-websites. The Google Page Creator which lets you throw up a quick set of pages without a ton of hassle. The problem is, it is just a web builder, and all the pages are hosted with Google. While this may seem like a good idea, it is […]
Potential New Verification Process in Google Sitemaps
If you subscribe to the SEO Revolution Newsletter, you know that we are very big on Google Sitemaps. One of the big issues for many new webmasters, is getting their XML file validated. The process often times is buggy and doesn’t work for no reason. Google announced today that they are considering adding an alternate […]
Gender Internet Usage Statistics
The following are results from a survery conducted in December 2005. • 67% of the adult American population goes online, including 68% of men and 66% of women • 86% of women ages 18-29 are online, compared with 80% of men that age. • 34% of men 65 and older use the Internet, compared with […]
Google Buys Blog Analytics Service
Google Inc. has bought Measure Map, an online analytics tool for blogs. The product was bought from San Francisco consulting firm Adaptive Path for an undisclosed sum. Jeff Veen, an Adaptive Path founder and product director for Measure Map, was hired by the Mountain View, Calif., search engine. Measure Map is meant to help bloggers […]
MSN ContentAds
Jen Slegg will be speaking about contextual advertising at Microsoft’s Mix06 conference in Las Vegas. She also has the scoop on the new MSN Contextual Advertising ANSWER TO GOOGLE ADSENSE AND YAHOO PUBLISHER NETWORK, ContentAds after reading a session description from Mix06. MSN ContentAds is their contextual advertising program name and a launch date will […]
Sponsored Search Grow 16%
Nielsen//NetRatings reports that the number of sponsored link advertising impressions on the Google and Yahoo! ad platforms grew 16 percent, from 55.4 billion to 64.3 billion, between August 2005 and January 2006. “Despite the overwhelming market share that Google and Yahoo! search enjoy, they continue to see strong growth in the volume of sponsored links,” […]
Google Ranks Worst in Conversion Rates Among Major Search Engines
A newly released study ranks the median order conversion rates for the top four search engines. The research was conducted by website analytics company, WebSideStory, Inc. For the month of January, AOL Search generated the best conversion rate at business-to consumer e-commerce sites (6.17 percent), followed by MSN (6.03 percent), Yahoo (4.07 percent) and Google […]
Using Search Rises
From SearchEngineLowdown: Nielsen/NetRating’s latest data indicates that the number of searches continues to grow at a more than healthy pace, totaling about 5.1 billion in December 2005, an increase of 55% from the almost 3.3 billion searches made in December 2004. Meanwhile, the number of Internet users rose just 3%, clearly showing that searching is […]