Archive for the 'Website Promotions' Category

Google targeting web directories as spam

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

It seems that a remarkable amount of directories have been removed from Google lately.

What exactly all of these directories had in common, I cannot say, but I have studied the structure of many and the biggest issue is using the same scripts and generating duplicate content. Luckily, there is no […]

Google Bourbon algo rollback

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

It doesn’t look like a complete rollback, but there does appear to be a minor adjustment this week since the Bourbon update.

It appears that the relevancy know has been turned up yet again. No guarantee that this is true across the board, but I’m seeing it on sites I monitor.

Google has updated backlinks and visible PR

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

The visible PR on the Toolbar has been updated by Google this week.

I notice that the Sitemap has really helped spread Toolbar PR quite well. More and more webmasters are realizing that the TBPR updates are just not that important. Does PR affect your SERPS still? Yes, but not nearly as dramatically […]