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TheDisneyBlog.com Delisted in Google

January 6, 2007

Not my site, not my client, not affiliated with me in any way, however I do read it regularly. Seems he’s having a bit of a problem with Google losing his site. Maybe someone in Google can give him a heads up. There I did my good deed for the day.

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Google Reader – The Borg is Watching

January 5, 2007

The blogosphere is buzzing today about the new stats being published by the Google reader, however I’d like to take a slightly more cynical look at things.

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Googlers Blogging More

January 3, 2007

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed more activity on the official google blogs in the past few days? Wonder if it’s a direct result of the Matt Cutts Blog Faster post or just a coincidence, of course I don’t believe in coincidences …
Official Google Blog: Kirkland calling Inside AdSense: Embed a photo [...]

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Oddities From the Latest Google Update

December 22, 2006

Man the latest update on Google is clearly showing some odd stuff. For example on one domain I own it says the site isn’t in google at all. If I do a site: search on the domain I get 300+ pages but everything except one is in supplemental. If I look back at the page [...]

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If Google Ran The World

December 20, 2006

This is the way things work in the real world

this is the way things would work if Google ran the world

any questions …

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Removed Site Targeting

December 12, 2006

I know there were a few people who were using site targeting on this blog, and it wasn’t something I had a problem with. However on one of my other websites site targeting was being used so much that my earnings were spiraling downward. Since there is no way to turn of site targeting on [...]

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How do I Get Gmail Mail Fetcher?

December 11, 2006

All right so I’m deep in a test of using the Google Customized homepage and Google Reader. If anybody out there in Google Land wants to hook me up with the GMail Mail Fetcher thing it would be pretty helpful.
Gmail: Help Center – How do I set up Mail Fetcher?

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Suggestion For Google Customized Homepage

December 11, 2006

I’m testing using a Google personalized homepage on a second laptop with a 15.4″ screen on 1280 resolution. To give me more screen real estate and make it more like my personal dashboard how about moving the search box up to the left in the corner. It would only give me a few lines but [...]

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Minus 30 Penalty from the Webmaster Central Control Panel

December 10, 2006

Just for kicks I thought I’d post a picture from a site that’s suffering from the minus 30 penalty from the webmaster central (aka Google Sitemaps) control panel. The keywords have been sanitized but looking at the right panel is actually rather amusing. For the super-curious the one that is ranking at #29 is an [...]

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Shoemoney and Graywolf in Forbes.com

December 7, 2006

Shoemoney rocks the house, but I managed to get in a name drop and few sentences in an article on Google Arbitrage Bitten By The Google Spider – Forbes.com
Critics say the new restrictions have missed the mark, punishing people like Kris Jones who run legitimate Web sites. Search engine marketer Michael Gray says Google’s new [...]

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Google and Private Registrations

December 1, 2006

CShel has been doing a little research and thinks she got an answer tot he question of can google see private registration data.

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Google Click Tracking in Gmail

November 30, 2006

I can’t believe that I am the first one to notice this, and I guess it’s because I don’t use GMail regularly that I didn’t notice this before, but if they didn’t actually want your user data would Google be tracking clicks in Gmail?

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Pubcon 2006 Custom Search Engine

November 28, 2006

OK so I was working on something earlier in the day for Brett, and while I was food shopping (a woman’s work is never done!) I came up with a cool idea to try. Why not create a custom search engine specifically for Las Vegas Pubcon 2006 with the Google Custom Search Engine. So check [...]

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Adwords Quality Score Interview

November 27, 2006

If you’re interested in reading what I have to say about the adwords quality score check out An Interview With Michael Gray aka Graywolf I gave over on PPC Blog

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My Website Isn’t Banned in Google

November 23, 2006

This post is a follow up to is my website banned in Google. Looking at the screen shot below you can see I’m no longer banned.

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Is Google Pushing a Republican Agenda and Burying Internet Porn

November 22, 2006

Recently there have been a number of stories alleging that Google is in bed with CIA and feeding them data. Having just returned from an internet conference and speaking with some Goolge Engineers I feel pretty confident that Google’s response that they are not involved with the CIA is true, however there is a growing [...]

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Using Sitemaps to Combat Duplicate Content

November 21, 2006

If you talked to anyone at the recent pubcon you realized one the things that’s on everyone’s mind is duplicate content, scrapers, splogs and adsense. While I didn’t get a chance to spend any time with anyone on the Google Sitemaps team, sometimes it takes a few hours on a plane for an idea to [...]

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Don’t think Google Knows Where You Are and What You are Doing?

November 11, 2006

So I signed into my account on Dodgeball.com to see if anyone was my friend and sadly I had no friends (dramatic pause, followed by pathetic whimpring). I then went to adwords to check to see how the keywords I uploaded earlier today were doing after the maintenance update today. I was well somewhat bothered [...]

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More Google Crawling Wonkiness

November 7, 2006

I have another site that is in the google cache, has a sub page (not the homepage) listed in the sitemaps tool as having the highest pagerank, yet nothing shows for a site:example.com search. C’mon Google what’s the deal here?

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GoogleDashboard.com the Truth Behind the Speculation

October 31, 2006

Part of the fun and danger of the blogosphere and things moving at the speed of the internet, is quite often things get misinterpreted. Many times I intentionally leave questions unanswered, hoping to generate a little buzz with speculation to fill in th gaps. In this case however I’m goingto do the opposite, I’m actually [...]

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