After reading SugarRae’s Polling via MSN IM: Real or Fake I decided to have some fun. Here are some eBay ads that were on Google. Can you find the fake ones?
Lies
Whatever you’re looking for
you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
Hurt Me
Whatever you’re looking for
you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
Several years ago people would find a search that they ranked #1 in Google and then link to that Google serp. The logic being that the googlebot would follow the link and then realize that a mighty and powerful site like Google is linking to your site and thus pass huge link popularity to you. This “sorta” worked back then. It really does not work now. The reason is that the specific page needs inbound links to be able to pass outbound link popularity. Since you will probably be the only site linking in to that Google serp, it really doesn’t have any link power to pass along. Also you will form a reciprocal link exchange which is not as valuable as a one-way link pointing to you.
Christine was a member of the founding Board of Directors of SEMPO. She serves as the Associate Editor for e-marketing-news and is the Chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association. She is also a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld Conferences, High Rankings Seminars, (to name a few). This lady knows her Internet Marketing so tune in at 4pm Eastern Time (9pm GMT).
It appears that Google is testing the concept of adding a Google Base search box in their serps. Below is a screen capture of what Google is showing for the keyword “homes for sale”. Since they are already showing three paid listings on top of the organic search results it is interesting they would take away even more page real estate to add a search box for real estate listings in Google Base. If they keep this up it will not matter if you rank #1 since no organic search results will be above the fold. Google Base is still free so it wouldn’t be adding revenue. The tests I did returned pages that are already in their standard search index. I don’t really see a good reason for this, unless Google is laying down the groundwork for more specialized searching (after all you can only expect so much relevance when you have a single user input box) Good luck Google with your beta test. Questions, comments? Speak up.
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CSS Goddess SuzyUK is going to be talking about how Cascading Style Sheets can help load pages faster, improve SEO and increase a website’s usability. Make sure not to miss this one at 4pm Eastern Time (9pm GMT) or download it from the GoodKarma podcast archive.
Somehow Vanessa found time in her crazy busy schedule to answer some follow-up questions. Thanks Vanessa. If you have not yet tried Google Sitemaps, you are missing out.
Congratulations to Mike Goldberg, the winner of a free full conference pass to WebmasterWorld’s Boston Pubcon.
Don’t worry if you didn’t win. We are giving away one more pass. Just go to WebmasterWorld.com and look in the Google Adword section and find out what Elsewhen is talking about then submit the answer at http://www.goodroi.com/goodkarma. Good luck and congratulations to the winners.
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GoodKarma will be chatting with 37signals the makers of the Basecamp project collaboration tool. We’ll be chatting about how to manage projects, vendors and clients without making yourself go crazy. So tune in and listen at 4pm Eastern Time (9pm GMT) or wait till it hits the GoodKarma podcast archive.
Technorati Tags: 37signals, basecamp, goodkarma, project collaboration, project management
Congratulations to Adam Longfellow, the winner of a free full conference pass to WebmasterWorld’s Boston Pubcon.
Don’t worry if you didn’t win. We are giving away two more passes. Just go to WebmasterWorld.com and look in the Domain Name section and find out what MikeCJ is talking about then submit the answer here. Good luck and congratulations to Howard Conklin and Adam Longfellow.
Hey everybody the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York was great. Unfortunately, it was overflowing with so much great stuff so I did not have time for the GoodKarma show. I promise to make up for that by sharing the great information that I picked up at the conference. Here are some quick highlights.
Top Surprise - Google’s Vanessa Fox is even more impressive in person. I saw her in the hotel lobby and we had an excellent chat. I’d encourage anyone to attend a search conference so they can have an opportunity to talk with people like Vanessa.
Top Dissappointment - Tim Mayer could not attend SES NY. Tim is a great guy and it would have been fun to see him again. Despite missing Tim, Yahoo still had some really interesting engineers and scientists at the show. I was able to peek at some of the cool things Yahoo has in their pipeline.
Most Entertaining Moment - Attending Spamalot with the SES/WebmasterRadio.fm crew and seeing Dax brought on stage.
Least Entertaining Moment - Visiting the MSN Adcenter booth and asking if they were handing out vouchers like Google Adwords does, then being handed a page with signup information that costs $5 to activate. Ummmm, not exactly what I had in mind. I think I need to explain myself better next time.
What was your most memorable experience of SES NY 2006?
What would be your words of wisdom for people attending next year?
