Last week Danny Sullivan twittered he was looking for a creative commons image to use. Christine Churchill poked a little fun at me wondering how I was able to get that so quickly. The trick is using search shortcuts, and I’m going to show you how to do it.
FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That
Post Updated: September 23, 2016 - By
So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what’s it being used for, why is google letting it be indexed, why are 164,000 pages in the index [site:feedproxy.google.com] and why is it ranking? it’s not like google places to much value on domain authority or anything … photo credit: dannysullivan
Want an Editorially Approved Link Become a Google Partner
Post Updated: September 3, 2016 - By
in this mornings post I chastised Google for giving straight links to partners, However now I’ve found a whole bunch more Here’s a Google adwords customer Happy Hounds getting an editorially approved link from Google, lets not forget twiddy.com or cordarounds.com not to worry while they may keep other robots out but they let googlebot in in robots.txt (that was … [Continue reading Want an Editorially Approved Link Become a Google Partner]
Adwords Quality Score – Why It Won’t Roll Back
Post Updated: August 20, 2016 - By
I’ll admit that when I first saw the new adwords quality score I thought they were crazy, they’ll have to roll this thing back, and was not alone in this belief. However after poking ad proding the beast a little I say it’s here to stay.
Google Knows Where I Live
Post Updated: August 20, 2016 - By
Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!
Forbes Article
Post Updated: August 15, 2016 - By
I’m mentioned in a Forbes article about Google along with Aaron Wall and Jim Boykin
Site Links are Ephemeral
Post Updated: August 15, 2016 - By
When I see things like this I have to admit I’m fascinated about the inner workings of the Google Borg Anybody think they aren’t using user/toolbar data? Want to do a nice experiment repeat this search every 15 days and watch for changes …
Peek-a-Boo in the Sandbox
Post Updated: August 15, 2016 - By
First off let me say Google’s constantly updating non synchronized data centers are actually becoming quite annoying. Big Daddy data centers not being in sync with anything even more annoying. Anyways, I’m starting to see some sites coming out of the sandbox in the past week or so. Let me clarify that I’m starting to see pages not entire sites … [Continue reading Peek-a-Boo in the Sandbox]
25 Things I’d like to See Google Fix
Post Updated: August 14, 2016 - By
While I’m well known for being critical of many of the things Google does, I’m also a power user of site and many of their tools. Being a power user gives me a unique insight to see some areas these tools could be improved. This post is written in the spirit of constructive criticism, since I know my posts sometimes … [Continue reading 25 Things I’d like to See Google Fix]
Google Web History – More Spying From Google
Post Updated: August 14, 2016 - By
I was a little busy last week and didn’t have time to respond to this, but don’t worry the Google Web History isn’t going to pass by without me taking a well deserved swipe at it.
Dear Matt Cutts, What We Have is a Failure to Communicate
Post Updated: August 13, 2016 - By
Dear Matt Cutts, I know you and I don’t always see eye to eye on everything, but I think we’ve got enough of a working relationship that I feel comfortable saying, that the way the brand update/ Vince change, went down could have been better. Indulge me while I make an analogy to prove a point.
Contextual Advertising That makes me Laugh
Post Updated: August 9, 2016 - By
Sometimes the ads in GMail crack me up
Sitelinks – Now That’s Interesting
Post Updated: August 5, 2016 - By
Oh apostrophe you give and then you take away (and suggest)
How to Turn Off Personalized Search in Google Chrome
Post Updated: August 4, 2016 - By
With the impending arrival of Google OS I’ve been spending more time in Google Chrome, and figuring out how to customize things to my liking. Here’s a tip on how to turn off personalized search in Google Chrome.
Adwords Pricing – Things That Make You Go Hmm…
Post Updated: August 2, 2016 - By
So I’m bidding on a keyword where I’m the only person running an ad. It’s getting between 1,000 and 1,500 searches a day and getting between a 3-4% CTR. I’m a little baffled how they come up with the $0.12 a click figure since there’s no one under me.
Google Universal Search is Just Weird
Post Updated: July 26, 2016 - By
So if the word “the” is a stop word an generally speaking just ignored, why does the search for [the golden compass] have a Google news result in the #2 slot and [golden compass] does not.
Matt Cutts Calls me a Kitten
Post Updated: July 26, 2016 - By
It’s barely audible but Matt Cutts calls me a kitten
Site Links and Search Volume
Post Updated: July 25, 2016 - By
One of the things that I admire about the Google algo is it’s ability to “learn” and “adapt” based on incoming data. For example when search volume for a certain keywords reaches a certain volume words that were originally mis-spellings become real words. Today I came across an example of this logic being applied to site links.
I’m Just Tired of Craigslist and Wikipedia’s in Commercial Serps
Post Updated: July 24, 2016 - By
If I’m looking for [private jet long island] chances are I don’t want to see craigslist crap nor do I want to see a local newsday (newspaper) article about hillary clinton defending her private jet use. I guess I should be glad I didn’t get a wikipedia listing … C’mon Google you can do better …
Google Throws Publishers Under Bus with Prerendering of Pages
Post Updated: July 23, 2016 - By
Google recently announced they will start to pre-render pages in Chrome to “improve the user experience.” IMHO this represents nothing more than the latest effort by Google to throw publishers under the bus to gain market share for one of their products and ultimately give them more data about their users to better target their advertising.
