How to work no-follow. “Just because a person came to a site through a no-follow link doesn’t mean they won’t link to you using a clean one” Pay-per-post detractors. Amusing rant. Barry takes a look at Google Pay Per Action. This made me smile. Google suggests you swim the ocean. It should take you 3,462 …
Problems With Affiliate Payouts
There’s an interesting argument developing here about affiliate payouts. Read the comments. Â ”Thats why [a leading web payment option] processing sucks for affiliates… because the surfer has to opt to go back to the site to complete the loop…. and a large percentage just close the browser, after they get the thank you page….“ Not …
Domain Score, Not Page Score
As I’ve been saying, I think Google have been placing emphasis on domains lately, as opposed to pages. It’s not so much that the domain name itself is tagged with authority, but if the domain contains enough pages that are deemed authoritative, then it can be assumed that other pages on the domain are also …
Google Concerned About Health Information
A friend of mine is a doctor. She’s very dismissive of the medial information on the internet. Not because some of it isn’t accurate, but because so much of it isn’t. Google are concerned about this, too: “How do I know if the information is trustworthy and reliable? There is a lot of material out …
SEO Crack Pipe
Jason is “feeling the love” of SEO. Â ”Looks like Neil is doing an OK job so far of increasing the search traffic to Calacanis.com over the past two weeks. He’s only been able to push about 10% of the changes he wants to do…but the results are solid so far: a 21% increase according to …
Microsoft Pre-Filling Search Bar?
I don’t know if this is true or not, but if it is, it’s a crap idea. Â ”… MSN in the UK is showing that the search box is prefilled with “The Apprentice BBC.” This was actually spotted this morning but I was able to reproduce it just now.“ When I tried a minute ago, …
Google’s Next Big Project: Instant Language Translation
Wonder if it’s any good? “Google’s approach, called statistical machine translation, differs from past efforts in that it forgoes language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers.Instead, they feed documents humans have already translated into two languages and then rely on computers to discern patterns for future translations“. Google’s language translator tools can …
