RustyBrick Web Technology Blog

We are working on putting up a website for my synagogue located in the woods of Pomona, NY 10970. Keep your eye out at: www.pomonashul.com. The site will feature shuls schedules, a community calendar, about the board, about the community, application and more.

Server folks fixed the issue, too much stress yesterday suffered from it. Anyway, here is today's news.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. The Exchange Rate Google Uses for International AdWords Advertisers Unfair? - is it ever fair?
   
2. All Of Google's 500 Plus Domain Names - not all are correct
   
3. Scrapers Reborn & MFAs Take a Hit With New Google AdWords Quality Score? - one down and two more to go
   
4. Yahoo! Warns Publishers: Remove Images Near Ads - good
   
5. India Blocks Google's Blogspot & Yahoo!'s Geocities - ok
   
6. Google Mini Fridges Up For Sale at eBay - too funny
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. The Google Idiots Are Damn Smart - duhhhh
   
2. Malware Search Engine Powered By Google - nice way to find things you rather not find
   
3. Click Pirates Making A Mockery Of The Text Ad Space - ohoy
   
4. Mom's Googling: Be Careful! - or else!
   
5. Keyword Prices Continue To Fall: Down 8.6 Percent - seems a bit strange to me, wonder if that will change with the new quality score?
   

Network issues sporadically throughout the day today, after moving to a new hosting farm. No fun, not fun at all. Anyway, here is the search new coverage for the day.

Search Engine Roundtable Forums:

1. Google Maps Results Displayed on Google Search Results - a bit too much?
   
2. Hackers Changing Google AdSense Publisher IDs? - I hope this was a typo, but I don't think so
   
3. Related Search Command Changes at Google.com - weirdness again
   
4. SES San Jose 2006 Coming - excited?
   
5. Google Down in the UK - and at this time, it is still down, and I thought I was having a bad day!
   
6. Search Engine Roundtable On The Air Soon: Reader Feedback Requested - looks like Search Pulse will win.
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Yahoo Officially Launches New Home Page Design - nice
   
2. Report: Click Fraud Rises in Q2 & High-Priced Keywords Click Fraud Rate At 20.2% - don't cry
   
3. Google Hiring Television Engineers & Wireless Software Engineer - TV here, TV there
   
4. Google Maps Added As OneBox Result - see above
   
5. AdWords Adds Category Site Selection Feature - nice feature or more prone to issues?
   
6. Yahoo Finance Upgrades Features & Charts - and badges
   

I had a new idea today for a new site/blog thing, I hope to get it live soon. More on that later... For the search topics today, Friday, July 14th, here ya go.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Page Rank Update 07-13-06 - whop peee ;-)
   
2. Google's AdSense Product Caused Major Headache for Small Consulting Firm - sorry man, so sorry
   
3. Someone Stealing Your Content? Play With Them - this is kinda funny and also kinda scary
   
4. Google Asks For Feedback on AdWords Ads - flash from the past
   
5. DigitalPoint's Co-Op Network Supports No Follow & More - good or bad?
   
6. Follow Up on NOODP Tag: Both Titles & Descriptions Are Included - just clarifying things...
   
7. Yahoo! Redirects Link Command Requests to Site Explorer - seems to be just a test, asked Yahoo for confirmation
   
8. Yahoo! Updates, Not To Be Out-Done by Google - the fight continues
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Specialty Search Roundup #7 - bit technical
   
2. Newspapers To Team Up With Yahoo To Create An Online Classifieds Network - print goes web, web goes print
   
3. Many Advertisers Are Frustrated With Google's New Quality Score & Pricing - I actually like the way this post came out
   
4. Caffeine and Tin Foil At Windows Live Search - this is really funny
   
5. Yahoo Tests Redirecting Some Searches To Site Explorer & Yahoo Search Update - got a confirmation from Yahoo! on both
   

Feeling like I am getting back into the swing of things, after the conference and all. Today is a hungry day, but what can you do. We are beta launching a huge site today and a big launch for it tomorrow. Then we launch some customer e-commerce sites Monday, and then do a full release of a large site the end of next week. We are also still interviewing PHPers, so that always takes some time out of the day.

Ok, let's get back to search news.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. NOODP Tag "Should" Have No Effect on Search Engine Rankings - good, because, see what comes later.
   
2. Quick Spam Reporting Tool & SEOMoz's Page Strength Tool - sweet tool, deserves two days of mentions
   
3. Yahoo! Publisher Network to Hold Focus Group in California - Focus on this, huh?
   
4. Yahoo! Ranking Banned Sites for Select "Hand Placed" Queries? - not good Yahoo!
   
5. 301 Redirect From Non-WWW to WWW Hurts One Webmaster - not good Google
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Counting Links At The Search Engines - 1 + 1 is not always 2
   
2. Yahoo Reaches Out To U.S. Hispanics Via Deal With Hispanic Digital Network - Latam
   
3. More Details On Google Sitemaps Query Stats - Go Vanessa!
   
4. AdSense Consulting Group Fed Up With Google AdSense - ouch!
   
5. Speculation: Google To Begin Selling Radio Ads Through AdWords Soon - Should be interesting, to say the least!
   
6. Google Adds Supports For NOODP Tag To Opt Out Of ODP Titles - seriously, Vanessa rocks!
   

I was at a conference Monday and Tuesday and then my flight was delayed where I didn't land in Newark until after 1am, which means I didn't get home until after 2am. So I wasn't able to really update you here on the SEO/SEM news and topics I wrote about. So here is a three day summary in one post. Plus I am going to have Cartoon Barry read it to you.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. MFAs (Made for AdSense Sites) Targeted by Google? - good, no?
   
2. Do You SEO for Google Anymore? - I don't
   
3. Yahoo! Publisher Network Payment Schedule & Password Management Updates - sweet
   
4. WebmasterWorld Upgrades Forum Software - features? i guess behind the scenes...
   
5. MSN Search Updates Algorithm on Weekend - too funny
   
6. Google AdWords Editor Ad Quota? - give me a big yard to play in and then chain me to a pole!
   
7. Google AdWords's Hidden Inactive Keywords - I can see your hiding!
   
8. MSN Not Listening To Robots.txt Files? Or? - We are not listening to MSN
   
9. Google Drive, GDrive, Platypus Coming Soon? - drive Google, Drive!
   
10. Google Pack Referrals Not Captured For At Least 24 Hours - embarrassing
    
11. SES Latino 2006 Roundup - good stuff
    
12. Windows Live More Strict on Adult Content When Compared with MSN Search - go to msn search for better porn
    
13. Google Goes to Michigan; 1,000 Call Center Googlers? - complaints? you now know where to go
    
14. Cartoon Barry Interactive by SitePal - cute, no?
    

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Eric Schmidt Claims The PPC Model is "Self-Correcting" In Terms Of Click Fraud - lol
   
2. Google Binary Search Not Only Finds Malware But Also Shows Signs Of More - Get a Mac
   
3. Matt Cutts Of Google Comments On Recent Listings Issues - nice
   
4. Judge Orders Google To Disclose Advertiser's Information - not nice
   
5. Yahoo Buys Land In Santa Clara - running out of room
   
6. Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida - Day One - fingers hurt
   
7. Google Drive Revealed? - Platypus, where?
   
8. Google To Set Up Offices In Michigan - blah
   
9. Windows Live Adds Search/Personalized Toggle & 34 New Markets - more more
   
10. Google Jet Plane Security Threat? And Testing A Sofa In Mountain View - sooo dumb!
    
11. Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida - Day Two - fingers hurt again
    
12. MySpace More Popular Than Google Or Yahoo - or not, says Yahoo
    
13. Martin Child, VP Of Sales & Marketing Leaves Yahoo Search Marketing - stop leaving me!, says yahoo
    
14. Google Pages & Yahoo Geocities Phishing Attacks - here phishy phisy, here...
    
15. Interactive Review of SEOMoz's Page Strength Tool - youtube + snapz x
    
16. Google Video Launches In UK & Other Countries - more more more
    
17. Yahoo's Livesearch Added To Firefox - so what
    

Well, that is three days of news in one. Make sure to check out the SES Latino 2006 Roundup.

Bit of a busy day outside of the search area for me. All in all, all is good.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. First Feedback on Google AdWords Video Ads - need more feedback!
   
2. Google Showing Q&A Results but Same Site Not Indexed - this is kind of interesting...
   
3. Yahoo! Search Indexing Issues - or not?
   
4. eBay Forbids Use of Google Checkout on eBay - tisk tisk!
   
5. Google Using HEAD as Opposed to GET Requests More Frequently? - good tidbit
   
6. MSN Search Won't Call a Hyphenated Domain Spam or Will They? - no comment
   
7. Google AdWords Missing Content Network Conversions Data - Boo Boo
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Business.com Adds Nofollow To Many Links - oh why why why
   
2. AOL Podcast Search Beta Live - snore
   
3. Google's Q&A Database Different From Web Search Database - slightly different take
   
4. W3C Selling PageRank Or Thanking Supporters? - too funny
   
5. Google Health Scrapbook: Google's Health Portal - OMG
   
6. Conference Coverage: SES Latino 2006 - looking forward
   

Not such an exciting day today, kinda had to fish for news and topics today. Here they are...

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Image Ads & Yahoo! Publisher Network Revisited - so you can't really.
   
2. SES Latino Coverage Coming Monday & Tuesday - Ill be there, will you?
   
3. Google To Charge For AdWords Features? No - not yet, at least
   
4. Link Building Versus Link Development - here, fishy, fish, here...
   
5. Image Hotlink Protection & Image Search Engines Like Google Images - how to...
   
6. The New Ego Search: "Did You Mean" Results in Google Search - trump, trump, trump
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google's Ranking Algorithm Too Dependent On Trust Factors? - that was a fun post
   
2. Google Fixes XSS Security Holes - huh? :)
   
3. Google Posts First Quarter '06 Quarterly Report 10-Q - huh? ;-)
   
4. Kinderstart Transcript Available - again, huh?
   
5. Search For "Therapy Products" On Google Suggests Yahoo As Alternative Results - you kidding me?
   
6. eBay Disallows Google Checkout - too funny
   
7. Myanmar Enables Access To Google After Blocking Gmail & GTalk - big bully!
   
8. Google In Another Dictionary: Merriam-Webster - nice, good for them.
   

Yesterday was a lot of driving for me. Went to two different weddings, on both sides of lower NY. I also got myself a a pair of those awesome Bose Noise Cancelling Earphones, something that will help me for all those conferences and trips I take on planes. Looking forward to testing them out Sunday, for when I fly to Miami for the SES Latino show to cover it. Ok, on to search topics for today.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google AdSense Ad Asks To Be Clicked - interesting find, just shows you...
   
2. Google Fixes Google News in New Zealand - they are listening...
   
3. Poor Rankings? Sue Google! KindertStart Case To Possibly Go To Court - amazing!
   
4. When Spam Reports Fail at Google or Yahoo, MSN & Ask.com - nice ideas
   
5. Stealing Content Direct From Source; Beware - there are some folks you just don't want to mess with.
   
6. Google Reveals Spam Scores Accidently? - very interesting. :)
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google Warns U.S. Legislators On Anti-Trust Complaints Over Net Neutrality - honestly, this stuff bores me.
   
2. Google To Launch Book Search Service In China - seems not like Google to make money this way.
   
3. Yahoo Launches New Home Page Design In UK & Ireland - i like it
   
4. SEOMoz's Keyword Difficulty Tool - more to come
   
5. Google's Spam Score Details Shown? - yea, posted above
   
6. Microsoft Running Out Of Room In Redmond - too fat?
   
7. Interactive Review Of SEOBook's SEO Firefox Extension - take way too long to do this uploads
   
8. Report: Advertisers Lost $800 Million To Click Fraud Last Year - says advertisers without any real metrics!
   

That is a wrap!

Lots of posts in the AM for the day before July 4th. I am taking off tomorrow, I think. Anyway, I am also leaving early today, but I have scheduled this post to go live later today.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Has No News for New Zealand - Bug or getting personal?
   
2. Microsoft adCenter Keyword Max Limits - good to know
   
3. Google Book Search Promotion a Usability Mistake? - honestly, I do not like pineapples.
   
4. Respected Forum Member, Dave Bellis (aka DaveAtIFG), Passes Away - very very sad news.
   
5. Link Spam & Search Spam Hits Front Page of BBC News - what, Google can be gamed?
   
6. Ask.com & MSN Search Caught Crawling Non Existant Pages - hmm, bad bad robot!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. KinderStart.com Case May Proceed To Court? - You're kidding me!
   
2. Google's Non Search Products A Flop - old stuff, but true
   
3. Google Page Creator Now Supporting AdSense - errr...
   
4. BBC News Features Article On Google Search Spam - hey world!
   
5. Matt Cutts Is Back From Vacation - welcome back!
   
6. New York Times Looks At Google's Hardware & Infrastructure - nice article
   
7. Yahoo China To Be Sued For Linking To Sites Selling Pirated Music - links can hurt you! ;-)
   

Bit of a hectic day in terms of RB stuff, but I did get plenty of coverage of search stuff today. Here is the roundup.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Yahoo! Search Marketing No Longer on MSN Search - na, na, na naaaa, na na na naaaa, hey heyyyy good bye.
   
2. Expected Downtime Over Weekend - expect it here also.
   
3. Is Google Sitemaps to Blame for Indexing Woes? - no
   
4. Too Many Keywords in AdWords? Call Your Google Rep - phones are always the answer, which stinks.
   
5. MSN Replies to Accusations of Penalizing Sites with Google AdSense - this guy is too much fun
   
6. Google Checkout AdWords Shopping Cart Icons Not Working in Apple Safari? - of course not!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Ask.com Removes "Legacy Filters" To Enable Pedophilia Keyword Search - ooppps
   
2. Yahoo Beta Tests Searchable Yahoo Mobile E-Mail - cool
   
3. MSN Search To Officially Not Use Yahoo Search Marketing For Sponsored Search July 1 - buh bye
   
4. Myanmar Government Blocks Google & GMail? - censorship is where it is at :)
   
5. GooglePlex Irvine To Revolutionize Radio Advertising - very very futuristic
   
6. eBay's PayPal Mocks Google Checkout - roflol
   
7. Specialty Search Roundup #5 - nice gary!
   

We got Google Checkout boys and girls. Some are rejoicing, well most are since it is Google and some are not, because they don't like Google. All in all, AdWords advertisers can gain some more visibility if they sign up. Fair or not...

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Welcome Google Checkout; Google Payments - read above
   
2. Google Adds Channels to Referrals for Better Tracking - Good, good.
   
3. Google Revamps Google Accounts Page - scary a bit.
   
4. Mystery Pay Per Click Traffic - nuts
   
5. Yahoo! Settles Click Fraud Suit - good for Yahoo!
   
6. Google Updates AdWords User Interface - We got tabs!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Another Microsoft Executive Leaves To Join Google - shame shame shame
   
2. MSN Search Requires Unique Robots.txt Files In HTTPS Vs. HTTP Cases - duplicate robots.txt issues?
   
3. New Look For The Google Accounts Page - confirmed, it is scary
   
4. Yahoo Gains Market Share In China, Google Loses Share - wish I didn't have to link to this site, but what can I do?
   
5. Google Knocks Off Apple On The Wired 40 - Apple! No!!!
   
6. Google Now A Verb In The Oxford English Dictionary - expected
   
7. Google AdWords Adds Statistics Tabs - tab-a-lishious!
   

Crazy morning, all this news was posted prior to 12:30PM (EST). Ready?

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Personal Reputation Management: The Reactive Approach - nice refresher and some very good comments added.
   
2. Changing From Google Non English to Google English Results - an important thing to know, just in case. :)
   
3. Google AdSense Image Ads With Text Ads - ok ok ok we get it
   
4. Automated "Relevant" Images Solution for AdSense & YPN Ads - neat idea
   
5. PayPal Users Already Switching to GBuy? - are you?
   
6. Catching Fingers On Google Book Search: Hand Scans - too funny!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. David Beach Leaves Yahoo For Start Up Wink - my thoughts on why... Equity
   
2. Dell To Use Google Earth To Provide Enhanced Tech Support - what is next?
   
3. Marine Selling "Google Water" For Military Families Charity - Thirsty?
   
4. Some Funny & Crazy Yahoo Videos On YouTube - two letters for ya, "HG"
   
5. Google Not The Leader In Enterprise Search - but why? for the reasons listed?
   
6. FeedBurner CEO, Dick Costolo, Interviewed By Business 2.0 Magazine - Go Dick!
   
7. Google Book Search Scans Books By Hand? - yes it is that funny, it is.
   
8. Google Loses French Lawsuit Over Vuitton Trademark - Shocker! not!!!
   
9. KinderStart.com To Be Heard In Court Friday On Google Penalizing Site - this should be fun!
   

Phew, what a morning!

Tuesday's search coverage.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google AdSense Publishers Afraid to Go On Vacation Due To "Click Attacks" - Don't mess with Google!!!
   
2. Bad Clients: Three Warning Signs - A keeper.
   
3. Yahoo! Publisher Network Allows Contextual Relevant Images Near Ads Only - good to know
   
4. What is Your Average Revenue Per Click With YPN? - even better to know
   
5. Forum Spy Tracker at DigitalPoint Forums - Neat!
   
6. Best Blog on Search Marketing by MarketingSherpa - Whooo hooo!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Still No Results Found For A Google Search on Amazon.com - hmmm, now see one.
   
2. Microsoft Re-Launches adCenter Labs Again - Yawn
   
3. Image Database To Fight Online Child Porn - good good
   
4. Microsoft Demographics Prediction Tool Interactive Review - nice video, eehhh?

Glad we won that award.

Monday mornings typically are busy, catching up on all the forum buzz and news. Here is Monday, June 26th search buzz and news roundup.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Outsourcing Search Engine Marketing & Optimization? Questions To Ask - Some good questions...
   
2. Do Hosted Images Count Towards Link Popularity? - a thing of the past?
   
3. School Granted Temporary Injunction Against Google for Hacking Into Site? - kidding me!
   
4. Dress Up Google's Matt Cutts - ha ha!
   
5. MSN Won't Do a Search Index Update on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays - thank you MSNdude
   
6. MSN Asks Webmasters, What is Spam? - and thanks again!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google Blamed For Indexing Student Test Scores & Social Security Numbers - Danny & I team up on this one...
   
2. Google Vs. France Trademark Appeal Ruling Expected Wednesday - guess who wins? France?
   
3. Build Your Own Matt Cutts - Yea, it is that funny.
   
4. Microsoft Promotes adCenter In Full Page New York Times Ad - nice landing page optimization MSN!
   
5. Google To Also Lobby In Europe - cool
   
6. MSN Talks Spam Defenses; Takes Weekends Off From Indexing - yup, it is worth three thank yous!
   
7. Cost-Per-Keyword Drops In Q1 - expected?
   
8. The SEO Event Google Calendar - everything is cooler with Google products. :)
   

That is Monday for ya.

Pretty busy day, since Danny wasn't around to hold me back from posting almost everything I saw. :)

Here is the run down for today, June 23rd.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Alexa Ranking Falls - Bag head is on fire! Check it out seriously.
   
2. Yahoo! Publisher Network Payouts Evening Out With Google AdSense? - show me the money
   
3. Sub Sub Domain Google Issues Explained Differently - or not?
   
4. Pausing Microsoft adCenter (MSN) Ads Takes Three Plus Hours - good to know
   
5. Google's Referrals Graphics Wrong: Google Pack Buttons Display Firefox Material - you're kidding me!
   
6. Current List of Google's Data Centers by IP Address - so that is why we have an IP address shortage!
   
7. Free Search Engine Roundtable Yo-Yo Opportunity - need I say more?
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Child Porn Suit Dropped Against Google - yea, it was ridiculous from the start
   
2. Google Mixes Up Referrals Buttons - it is important, I think.
   
3. Japan's Softbank Mobile Phones To Use Yahoo As Content Portal - Yahooooooooo hooo
   
4. Ask.com Too Strict With Child & Sex Keywords? - I hope this is a bug
   
5. Google To Have 1000 Employees In China By 2007 - smart folks over there
   
6. Technorati Betting: New Link Bait Idea - nice idea
   
7. PhotoBucket Has 44% Share of Photo Sharing Sites: Beating Yahoo & Flickr - Flickr who? Ah, there they come from behind!
   

Fun day, fun day!

Thursday, June 22, 2005 search news wrap up is all set to go.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. More Detailed Statistics within Google Sitemaps - thank you Mr. Google.
   
2. Adobe Partners with Google But What About Yahoo!'s Partnership with Adobe? - $$$ is involved, I believe.
   
3. Small But Important New Google AdWords Features & Fixes - cool
   
4. Google Click to Call Rumors Spread to Search Forums - coming soon?
   
5. Inside AdSense Blog Answers Questions with Google Video - action!
   
6. Google Censors Google Questions at Google Answers - tisk tisk tisk
   
7. My NetIncome show from last night, 10 mins of me on search news at WebmasterRadio.FM
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. More Stats & Features From Google Sitemaps - yea it is newsie
   
2. Google Updates Toolbar Privacy Policy - hmm, did you?
   
3. Google Search Appliance Now Available In Australia and New Zealand - slow day?
   
4. Google Disposes Of Stake In Baidu - good, own only one engine please.
   
5. AdWords Tweaks & Bug Fixes Documented - give it more play, eWhisper had an awesome post!
   
6. Specialty Search Roundup #4 - love this stuff...
   

Lots of good forum topics today, and one big Google release, that got us on the front page of slashdot.org. Here is a roundup.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Removing Extra Variables Within the URLs Listed in Search Results - Common issue, common solution...
   
2. Google Pages Does Not Support Google AdSense Ads - that is a shame, not!
   
3. SEO Training Solutions & Ideas - learn SEO like that
   
4. How GeoTargeting Works on Google AdSense - Interesting...
   
5. Funny Google AdWords & eBay Ad - always funny
   
6. Are Google Advertisers Opting Out of Content Network: Dropping AdSense - hmm, good thing Google Pages doesnt fuel the issue.
   
7. Google's Supplemental Index Showing More Than the Title Tag as the Title? - is this an issue?
   
8. Google Testing AdSense Cost Per Action (CPA) - this was /.ed at http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/21/2132238.
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Microsoft Employees Use Google More Than MSN? - and Steve Ballmer is worried about ipods. :)
   
2. Martin Taylor, VP Of Windows Live & MSN Marketing Leaves Microsoft - ouch!
   
3. Chinese Authorities Temporarily Shut Down Two Large Chinese Portals - !!!
   
4. Google AdSense Tests CPA Ads, Commission Based Ads - Yes, it is that important
   

Today's, June 20th, search news again was fairly on the slow side. Nothing crazy happened - I guess it is a sign that the summer is here. Here is the roundup.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Pages Host Trojan Horse Scam - Here horsey horsey, here horsey horsey...
   
2. Yahoo! Also Easy To Spam? No Fall Back Search Engines Left! - /me goes into depression
   
3. MSN Asks Webmasters What Are Quality & Authoritative Sites - Smart move or not?
   
4. Chinese Search Organic Results "Is For Sale" - Chinese SEO
   
5. MSN Reporting Less Links For Web Sites - Ok
   
6. Please Vote for Us: MarketingSherpa Reader's Choice Blog Awards 2006 - Please!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google Sub Sub Domain Issues Clearly Visible - Rubba Dub Dub
   
2. Google Pulls Question About Google From Google Answers - why?
   
3. It's Not Just Google With Disappointing Results - That depression thing again...
   
4. I was on WebmasterRadio.FM twice today, first time for SearchCast listen here, and the second time for the weekly MoneyMinute I do on NetIncome (will post link on Wednesday).
   

June 19th turned out to be a slower day in search. The news was more within the SEO community itself and not much going outside of the community. Here is a round up of what I personally wrote about at the two blogs I write at.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. NY Times is Cloaking But Not Spamming; Danny Sullivan Says - Google Take A Stand!
   
2. Search Spammer Delisted After Tactics Revealed on DigitalPoint Forums - How embarrassing!
   
3. Google Relevancy Doomed without Matt Cutts? - Can one many be so vital to such a large company?
   
4. Search Ad Keyword Phrase Deletion Probabilities - Nothing like a search patent to really wake you up in the morning...
   
5. Checking Declined Yahoo! Search Ad Listings Reasons in UK - nice hack, I think.
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google Yanks Sites 5 Billion Pages After Spam Complaint - slightly different take on this embarrassment.
   
2. Google To "Internationalize" All Products - pretty interesting.
   
3. Google Search Results Differ On Mac Versus PC? - seen it for a while, was asked to document it.
   
4. Ask.com Sponsors NBC's Treasure Hunters - S'more Ask Promotions
   
5. Google's Mobile Operations Expected To See Largest Growth - wonder how much effort in percentages. :)
   

That is a wrap.

Today, Friday, June 16, 2006 was not as crazy busy as yesterday, but we did have a nice amount of topics to discuss in regards to the search industry.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Ad Scheduling Live on Google AdWords - yes finally and I wrote up a step by step on how to set it up.
   
2. Bill Gates on Way Out of Microsoft - July 2008, Bill will focus on other things.
   
3. Google AdSense Surveys Go Out - if you get one, it is not spam, it is legit.
   
4. Yahoo! Search Marketing to Reduce Minimum Bid in UK from 10p to 5p? - competition is good!
   
5. Yahoo! Search Results Shifting? - hold on...
   
6. New York Times Allowed to Cloak Content? - how nice of the search engines :)
   
7. Growing Forum Participation With Discussions Not Answers - thread of the month, no doubt.
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google Analytics Launches Blog - but no RSS auto-discovery?
   
2. SEO Roadshow Copenhagen Sept. 23rd - but I still can't go!
   
3. Bill Gates To Work Part Time at Microsoft in 2008 - so I overlapped from above, happens some times.
   
4. Google Adds Support For Greek & Bulgarian To AdSense For Search - Καλημέρα σε όλους! Здравейте! huh?
   
5. Yahoo China Highest Censorship Enforcing - doesn't look too good for Yahoo!
   
6. Riya To Expand Into Web Image Search - big blue pineapple chair galore!
   
7. Yahoo To Reduce Search Ad Minimum Bid In UK To 5p? - oopps I did it again...
   
8. Most Searched For Famous Dads - Happy Father's Day dad!
   

Never a boring day in search.

I want to try a new thing where I post a link summary of all the topics I write about daily at my search blog named Search Engine Roundtable and a blog I write at daily (the industry leading search news site) named Search Engine Watch.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Maps Table Tilt Control Solution
   
2. Maximum 'SEO Safe' Number of Sub Domains
   
3. Counting The Number of SEO Search Engine Ranking Factors
   
4. USA Today on Google Search Optimization with Quotes from Us
   
5. Interview With Ask's Blog Search Danica Brinton
   
6. Yahoo! Publisher Network Adds New Help Center & Traffic Building Tools
   
7. Google AdSense Test Link Units Within Standard Ad Units
   
8. Google.com Still Blocked in China
   
9. MSN Admits To Hand Tailoring Search Results
   

1. Google Buys Headquarters For $319 Million
   
2. Yahoo Sued For Trademark Infringement Using Google AdWords
   
3. SEMPO & Fair Issac Team Up To Study Click Fraud
   
4. The Dilbert Google Logo Story
   
5. Yahoo Asks Web Searchers How Clean Are The Search Results
   
6. Specialty Search Roundup #3
   

Not bad for one day of search topics. :)

Normally when you do a search in Google, you don't think about what is going on. You expect relevant results and don't give it a second thought.

Google, today, took this one step further by adding Yellow Page results to its main stream search. That way they did this is transparent to the end user. Do a search on "new york web design". See that at the top, right above the free listings? Local, yellow page ads. Google knows you want new york firms, so why not utilize one of the biggest directories on the net? The Yellow pages.

More coverage on this at the Search Engine Roundtable's entry named Google Serving Up Local Results.

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My two cents.

Well, next Monday I will be at the New York City Search Engine Strategies Conference. So I will pretty much be out all week.

I will be posting coverage off the sessions at The Search Engine Roundtable. Last conference I posted my reviews of the sessions at the Roundtable as well. Traffic really spiked at that point for the Roundtable and it was a brand new blog then. Ben Pfeiffer will be helping out with the coverage, two is better then one.

I plan on setting up a SEO Chat unofficial meeting, where we can all get to meet each other in real life. I am a moderator at SEO Chat forum, the largest SEO only forum on the Internet.

Its going to be a real interesting week!

A couple days ago, Yahoo! released its new search engine into the Yahoo! Search mainstream results. In the past, Yahoo! has been partnering with Google to supply the Yahoo! Search organic results. This is no longer the case, Yahoo! made several acquisitions over the past year or so, purchasing Inktomi, Overture, AltaVista and other search services.

This switch was expect to happen in the 1st quarter of 2004 but what was shocking was that Yahoo! is not using Inktomi results. All the speculation and rumors were based on Yahoo! using Inktomi as its search engine but Yahoo! Search is its own beast.

How this impacts the search engine optimization industry still remains to be seen. Many people expect this to really hurt Google. Most of the statistics say that Google's organic market share before Monday was 79% but now that Google lost Yahoo! it loses 28% of that share. And Google's market share is expected to decrease to 51% soon. However, taking a look at most my site's statistics and speaking with others about their statistics, I still see Google as driving 80+% of the site's search engine traffic, whereas Yahoo drives between 8 - 12% of that search engine traffic. MSN is low and so are the others.

Exciting industry to stay on top of.

I decided to try out placing a top place banner ad in WebProNews's Friday Newsletter. It is still a bit early to see if it paid off, I will have to make a decision if I will be doing an ad again next Friday.

I have enough data now to sit down and calculate whether I should do the ad next week or not. Urchin does one hell of a job tracking this information, they are even working on making an enhancement for me and the program.

Wish the marketing campaign luck!

I got an email last night from the company and author who wrote Google for Dummies, requesting I give a quote for the new book. Of course I said yes to the offer.

I will not be paid but I think it is a nice thing to do, plus it can't hurt for PR reasons (not PageRank, but public relations).

The author must of found my name through some of my seo articles I have written or through Search Engine Roundtable Weblog which RustyBrick sponsors.

Just new news to share with people, no one is reading it yet but they might in the future. ;)