Yearly Archives: 2005

Google Sandbox Detection Tool

Randfish of SEOSurvey has a new version of a tool that helps determine if your site is stuck in the Google sandbox. He admits that the tool is not authoritative, but uses many factors to pinpoint the likelihood of being [...]

By |2005-01-08T20:06:00-05:00January 8th, 2005|SEO|

Enhancing your search engine listings

There is a good article at www.isedb.com/news/article/1081 outlining a new service for videos to enhance your search engine listings. The idea of a marketing video next to a search engine listing is interesting. I'm not sure the public would actually [...]

By |2005-01-06T16:38:00-05:00January 6th, 2005|SEO|

Google patent and upcoming affilate announcement

So much SEO news today. The word is that Google will announce tomorrow that only 1 affiliate per merchant will be allowed to advertise. This could be a huge shakeup in the affiliate industry. Read more about it at www.webmasterworld.com/forum81/4204.htm. [...]

By |2005-01-06T01:05:00-05:00January 6th, 2005|SEO|

Microsoft to offer own PPC

Anyone remember reading my 2005 Search Engine Predictions? In it, I stated "Microsoft will buy out BidClix or some other ad network to compete with Overture, and will effectively stamp out Adwords/Adsense." Well, I might have been partially wrong about [...]

By |2013-06-06T13:19:41-04:00January 6th, 2005|PPC|

Result Crowding

The filter that prevents more than two results from the same domain showing up in the Google SERPs (one indented below the other). Adding &filter=0 to the end of the URL address after performing a search, will turn the Result [...]

By |2005-01-05T21:37:00-05:00January 5th, 2005|SEO|

GoogleGuy comments on odd SERPs when searching for Yahoo

Yesterday, I mentioned that searching for the word "Yahoo" on Google (without the quotes) returns less than 40 results. Last night, on SearchEngineWatch at https://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?threadid=3385, Googleguy addressed this oddity by saying: I asked someone about this.. I asked an engineer [...]

By |2005-01-05T08:33:00-05:00January 5th, 2005|SEO|
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