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Is Having a High Exit Rate Bad

Post Updated: March 5, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Is having a high exit rate bad? In pursuit determining whether Google is using analytics data to ranks SERPS, many marketers put undue focus and weight on factors like bounce rate and exit rate instead of taking a more holistic look at the statistics in relation to one another and what they really mean.

Filed Under: Favorites, Featured, Google Tagged With: google analytics

How Google Profiles SEO’s

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google’s Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they are in practice profiling SEO’s.

Filed Under: Featured, Google Tagged With: Google, link buying, SEO, techcrunch

Wikipedia Invades Google News

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

The following screen shot has to be seen to be believed 7 wikipedia articles listed as news sources in google news (picture after the jump click to enlarge)(link if you can’t see it)

Filed Under: Google, npb, npp, ntt Tagged With: Google

Personalized Search – The Feature No one is Asking For

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

As the debate over personalized search continues I asked myself this question, is anyone one really asking for personalized search results?

Filed Under: Google

Google Analytics Hiring and Sheepwalking

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

So I came across something from the Google analytics page about hiring a new representative To meet Google’s exacting hiring standards, you’ll need an outstanding academic record from a highly ranked university and have a history of professional achievement. Which struck me as kind of humorous as I just read Seth Godin talking about hiring and Sheepwalking I define “sheepwalking” … [Continue reading Google Analytics Hiring and Sheepwalking]

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Google: Greed over a Rollback

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Google recently announced they were updating the Adwords Quality Score, however it appears that there is a bug that raises the prices form any advertisers: Google AdWords Quality Score Has Major Bug Google AdWords Adds Quality Score Column & To Improved Quality Algorithm from Wednesday warned us of the new changes coming but apparently there is a bug that makes … [Continue reading Google: Greed over a Rollback]

Filed Under: Google

Matt Cutts Wants You To Help Fight Spam

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

If you needed any further evidence that Google is ramming personal search and Google accounts down your throat for their own self interests you need look no further than the latest Google Patent about removing documents.

Filed Under: Google

Google Not Afraid to Big & Ugly for Your Data

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

In a non logged in account in IE Google is not afraid to get big and ugly to get you to download that toolbar and start sending them data. Notice it’s almost as big as the Google logo. Is getting your hands on my data really that important to you …  

Filed Under: Google

Contextual Advertising That makes me Laugh

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Sometimes the ads in GMail crack me up

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Google Personalized Search – Don’t Become a Google Traffic Addict

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Recently I was doing a bit of research on personalized search for two different projects (I love a bit of convergence) and I had a revelation, with Google’s personalized search they are creating traffic addicts for their own self interests.

Filed Under: Google

DoubleClick Becomes Part of Google Data Borg

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Google paid through the nose buying Doubleclick, but man leveraging all that doubleclick cookie data into the Google data borg, that is just scary.

Filed Under: Google

Google Web History – More Spying From Google

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

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.

Filed Under: Google

Google Love Affair with Wikipedia

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Much has been said about Google algorithmic favoritism for Wikipedia. I was working on a project this weekend about celebrities, and wikipedia’s dominance in the SERP’s was nothing less than astounding.

Filed Under: Google

Forbes Article

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

I’m mentioned in a Forbes article about Google along with Aaron Wall and Jim Boykin

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Google Onebox with Maps Gone AWOL

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

So I was looking at something last week and I was getting onebox results with a map and three listings for [local town service]. Today I went to someone’s office and show them the onebox and the map with three local results were gone. Tried a bunch of others I know used to work in the past and they are … [Continue reading Google Onebox with Maps Gone AWOL]

Filed Under: Google

Google Trends

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

I like the new Google trends feature but does anybody really believe [esoteric] is a “hot search term” for May 22 2007? Like really … a hot 20 search term … c’mon. Hey Google would it really have been that hard to make it RSS so I wouldn’t have to scrape it it …

Filed Under: Google

Google Site Links UI Looks Funny

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Not sure what’s causing it but I’ve never seen site links formatting go funny like that

Filed Under: Google

Google Adds Paid Links Reporting

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

Google added a new section to webmaster central today entitled “report paid links”. How anyone other than me or quite possibly my book keeper know whether a link is paid or not is very questionable, but let’s dig just a little deeper shall we.

Filed Under: Google

Duplicate Text and SMX

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

One of the people I finally had the chance to meet at SMX was Vanessa Fox of Google. We’ve been twittering for eva (ok maybe 6 months but on the internet that is forever) and I think we’re really close to becoming BFF.

Filed Under: Google

Google Beats Disney

Post Updated: March 2, 2021 - By Michael Gray

I demand a recount of the hanging chads or something, because according to a recent press release Google is the most desireable place to work for undergraduates just beating out Disney … ACK!!! Say it ain’t so Mickey … Say it ain’t so …

Filed Under: Google

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