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Comment on Google in the Dock Over Privacy Abuse by Old Welsh Guy

Old Welsh Guy — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:48:04 +0000

hi Mike,
money is the driving force without question, but they shouldn’t ride rough-shod over the laws of the countries they operate in.

Comment on Google in the Dock Over Privacy Abuse by Mike B

Mike B — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:19:31 +0000

Google have sadly changed from an information provider to an information seller. In the early days, the search results were far better – granted there was SERP spam, but this was easily spotted. Now the results page is a large part paid advertising, with many of the natural results being delivered poor quality… tail wagging the dog?

Comment on Google Page Layout Factor Introduced Into the Algorithm by Adam

Adam — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:26:38 +0000

Wouldnt this “change” be hard for Google to judge what “above the fold” would be on some sites ? I mean most wordpress based sites loads the sidebar at the bottom of the HTML source which i would assume google would find it hard to put a placement on that ? So Really they would be saying dont put ads mixed with in the content ( above the fold ) , But then the adsense team would advise thats a prime location for a ads to be placed.

Comment on Beating the Content Thieves – stolen website content by Edward Fragnoli

Edward Fragnoli — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:21:33 +0000

Outstanding! Now please explain that to all those clients that want to buy the services from the kid who lives next door and bills only $15/hr LOL

Comment on Google start blocking Referrer Data. by Charley

Charley — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:08:13 +0000

Yes there is something you can do about it! You can speak out about what they are doing in public. Referrer is not owned by Google… is existed long before they came around and now they are blocking it from the public yet supplying wherever it benefits THEM. This is not right!

Comment on Google Release new Spam reporting facility by Iain Mars

Iain Mars — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:50:44 +0000

It’s about time Google clamped down on Copyright infringement, taking into account the amount of time people can spend creating their own content, images, etc.

Hopefully other search engines, especially Yahoo and Bing will follow suit!

I for one will be snitching on every one of my mate!(joke)

Thanks

Comment on UK Gets New Google Layout – My 6 quick changes of note by Barrister Bill

Barrister Bill — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:23:51 +0000

My forst vit to your blog mr OWG. Thanks for this summary here.

When this first happened I sort of noticed the changes but didn’t take them onboard. The loss of colour on the left was the most noticeable thing to me but I was beginning to think it was my computer at fault.So now I can dispekll that little niggle.

And if you had the +1 button in place I would have pressed it

Comment on Google Expert Cutts comments on Algorithm Change by Pete

Pete — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:03:50 +0000

The question is, why intentionally publish and duplicate your articles on other sites and expect your site to rank for that article ?

The article may get crawled on the other site first and links back to the original articles are increasingly no-followed, blocked redirected or use JS.

They of course do it just to gain backlinks, then have the audacity to complain when the duplicates they created are outranking them.

Those duplicate content only providers such as article directories, mashups should have been weeded out a long time ago. Why on earth has it taken Google so long to realise this? finally they are doing something about it, hoorah

Comment on Flash SEO, is it possible to Search Engine Optimise a Flash Website? by Pete

Pete — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:40:24 +0000

If only more designers and photographers were aware of this. lol

Comment on Panda Algorithm hits Uk and other English Language Google users by Pete

Pete — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:37:50 +0000

Go and check out the forums, you wont see any real businesses affected, its mostly MFA spam.