07.17.07

New site that shows your search engine rank

Posted in yahoo, Other Search Engines, Google at 3:51 pm

I was looking at a clients logs today and saw a referrer from a site named www.rankmon.com. I went there and it showed keywords that I rank for and where I rank on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I then realized “hey I just got referrer spammed”. Oh well at least this time it was something interesting. It seems the site spiders the internet reading keyword meta tags and then scrapes the search engines and gives a ranking report. I really like this. The site does not have an about page or anything that mentions who they are or how it is done or how you can work with them.

Technorati Tags: seo, google, yahoo, msn, live.com, ranking report

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07.09.07

Google Holiday Updates

Posted in Google at 6:23 am

This weekend I noticed an update at Google. I watch a lot of SERPS and they all jumped around this weekend. Since July 4th was on a Wednesday I think this weekend counts as a holiday update. I have watched Google for over 4 years and they have changed a lot over time. Back in the old days they would have there once a month update. Then they went to what they call a rolling update. Google does make changes all the time but one thing I have noticed is that they make changes on weekends. They seem to be consistent about making changes on holidays. There was one back on memorial weekend. Here are a few that Barry over at www.serountable.com has kept a record of.

www.seroundtable.com/archives/012469.html

www.seroundtable.com/archives/013672.html

www.seroundtable.com/archives/013293.html

www.seroundtable.com/archives/006384.html

www.seroundtable.com/archives/012394.html

Technorati Tags: google, update, google update, serountable, barry schwartz, july 4th update

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06.13.07

Google is messing around with the algo right now

Posted in Google at 6:43 pm

I was doing some looking around at the data centers and started noticing 2 different algos.

64.233.163.107

and

64.233.161.107

I am getting a third one from www.google.com. It looks a lot like it has for the past week.

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05.21.07

Google Local Results now showing small cities

Posted in Google at 8:19 pm

I have done some local SEO work in the past and keep tabs on terms that I did work on in the past. I have noticed that Google is returning a lot more local results than it used to. The big thing that I noticed is that they are now showing up for small city searches. I expect them to show them for Houston Dentist but this is the first time I have seen them show up for Friendswood dentist. I asked some people in other states and they see the same thing so they are not just showing it to the Houston searchers. Friendswood is a very small town of 34,000. It really is a suburb of Houston.

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04.29.07

My Google snippet is being hijacked

Posted in Google at 9:00 am

I think somebody is 302 hijacking my site or some new way of hijacking.

I was doing a search in Google to check how my site is doing in the supplemental index to day and ran into some strange Google behavior. The first thing that got my attention was that all of a sudden I went from 7 pages in supplemental index to 17. I then noticed that I have several results that have a snippet that is not on any pages of my site.

David Ogletree - Web Site Marketing Blog. How to be successful at search engine optimization. KeywordDiscovery.com Keyword Research Tool …

I then realize this is some text that was on my site back in march. I was very confused. How can Google be putting very old text in my snippet? I thought maybe it was just something weird when you do a site: search. I did a search for “ogletree KeywordDiscovery.com” and got the weird snippet again. I then went to yahoo to do a search. I did a search for “David Ogletree - Web Site Marketing Blog” (with quiotes). This is when it got interesting. The 2nd result from www.fashionoptic.lk has the same title and description my site had back in early march. I click on the link and none of that stuff was on his site. I clicked on the cache and it was very different. It was an exact copy of my site. This does not happen in Google by the way.

My question is how are they doing this? Why can I see it in Yahoo and not Google and how is this site affecting my snippet?

Technorati Tags: google, 302 hijack

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