Google Wins Again

Remember, I wrote about bodog and the fact they had lost all their Domains well those domains where dead i thought .. hmmm wonder how quick they will get flushed ….

Well checkout :

Live : Bodog
Yahoo : Bodog
Google : Bodog

ok maybe it’s only Google that read my blog, well if that the case way to go.. ( btw I know it’s not only Google ;) ), but just look at the speed that those results was swapped out .. 10/10 for Google

DaveN

Keyword Ranking Reports

Dave has finally let me out from the dark cellar beneath the Bronco building where over the last couple of days I have been looking at ranking reports for clients.
Keywords are of course one of the main focus areas for websites and whilst it’s easy for SEO’s to understand the logistics behind them client’s are not always  certain what all the fuss is about. Anyway, the point I’m getting at is this do we really need to give clients a blow by blow account of their keyword rankings?
Is it not better to show them that their sales have increased and give them true figures on ROI? Perhaps to tell them which products they could target more efficiently? Some SEO companies charge astronomic sums for producing reports which really have very little benefit to anyone. Don’t get me wrong I know how important keywords are for the website to perform.
Don’t you get tired of SEO geeks saying.. We rank no 1 for this we rank no 3 for this we rank no 4 — How about sales? How about the client’s business?

Dan Horton SEO

WebmasterCentral gets a facelift..

I can’t see any new features unless the Subscriber stats are new, but the new look and feel I have to say “I like it alot..”

here is a couple of screen shots :

webmaster-stats webmaster-tools

Subscriber stats
If your site publishes feeds of its content, this page will display the number of users who have subscribed to these feeds using Google products such as iGoogle, Google Reader, or Orkut. is that bit new??

DaveN

What I would do if I was Google

this may upset some sorry …

1) Stop displaying Pagerank it only drives link buying and selling

2) Stop showing Site: and use true page clustering. so two pages per site will be displayed, This will stop people worrying about how many pages are in the index also stops link hunting, webmaster central will be the only place you can get that data.

3) on redirects, a site that redirects to more than ONE site will be deemed has potentially damaging and will not be Indexed, this would stop the tinyurls been indexed and affiliate tracking URLs like in the recent Bedstar case

4) sub-domains would get clustered there for only showing 2 pages, yes I know it will upset wordpress hosted user, but i don’t care buy a domain it’s 5 bucks

5) and finally I would not display paying Adsense blocks on pages that aren’t in the index

ok what 5 things would you do if you where Google.

DaveN

Top 10 places I read

Top 2 these are our Industry

http://searchengineland.com/
http://www.seroundtable.com/

People I Respect and Read

http://www.seomoz.org/blog ( well BeckBeck… Only Joking Rand )
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/
http://www.wolf-howl.com/
http://www.quicksprout.com/
http://www.sugarrae.com/
http://www.shoemoney.com/
http://www.seobook.com/
http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/

ok I read in many many other places, but this is my Top10 at the Moment

DaveN

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