2007

Google’s foremost spamhunter Matt Cutts announced at the PubCon that is taking place in Las Vegas at the moment that they will finally tackle the subdomain problem. In the past this blog was not the only one to point out this problem. Which is that subdomains admittedly inherit the main-domain’s […]...

For some time now, Google AdSense gives the option of blocking ads of certain sites through a competitor-filter. This can not only be used to fade out competitors but also for blocking ads of which you think that the clickprice could be slated rather low and whose blocking could raise […]...

For a while now, Google is offering authenticated websiteoperators the possibility of viewing quite recent, extensive and accurate informations about all found backlinks of the website which can also be downloaded as CSV-files. Our tool takes this CSV-download and tries to collect some more informations about the backlinks. The links […]...

What I think about those PageRank-display-services, which provide you with a small button that you can plaster your homepage with which shows your current PageRank, has been made clear often enough. However, today I stumbled upon a site in a blog-comment which dwarfs everything I have seen up to this […]...

Google is exporting antiquated PageRank-values to the servers and the (Abakus)-SEO-world is happy. If you want to play along you can take a look at datacenters such as 66.249.93.44 or 72.14.207.83....

After Vanessa Fox, who played a substantial part in the construction of the Google-webmaster-center, announced her parting with Google last week, both Bret Taylor and Jim Norris are leaving, too. Taylor and Norris, both quasi fathers of Google Maps and holders of the Google Founders’ Award will spend their time […]...

Just as in May, another wave of mails, which are supposed to be from the Google Search Quality Team, is making the rounds which is warning of the imminent deletion of the website from the index. While last time they were send chiefly to webmaster@example.org, it seems that this time […]...

This year will see the continuation of Faris‘ successful SEO training-program that was already offered last year. For every SEO who is losing their base thanks to increasing competition, mean spamhunters in Dublin or a drop in quality in the established forums, I would like to recommend a continued education […]...

Ask.com has announced that, after Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are already supporting the Sitemaps.org-standard, they will start handling this standard, too. Another newsworthy change is the fact that, now, there is the possibility to show the searchengines the path to the Sitemaps-file without the need to have a Webmaster-account for […]...

After it was already announced in the Yahoo-Blog, the new Host for the Yahoo-crawler can now also be seen in the logfiles. While in the past they used subdomains of inktomisearch.com, now the bot is using subdomains of crawl.yahoo.net: The useragent and other distinctive features are still the same....

Google TiSP: install network cables through your municipal sewage lines. Matt Cutts: pseudohack. CuttsCon: conference just for Cuttlets. GMail: delivery via the postal service....

In the recent past I took some time to look at the multitude of local search possibilities in Germany and none of them has really inspired me. The thing that bothered me was that the available solutions are not really based on websearches but are enhanced yellow-pages with search- and […]...

Today, over at Jojo‘s I was able to read that Webnews, this Digg-clone which might have been noticeably too late but who, in return, started with Samwergeld, got this funny idea to send trackbacks when you submit your news there. If we just leave out the whole Web2.0-front and think […]...

Up until now, Google resorted to data from third parties to generate the database for the local search, now it seems that they are proceeding to aggregate the data themselves. Thanks to this, today I got a flyer from Google in the mail which asked me to check my listed […]...

As of now, everyone will be able to sign up for a customer account at GMail, which is also called Google Mail in Germany as well as some other countries due to legal matters. At the moment, it offers 2,8 gigabytes of storage as well as the familiar functions....

The Google-medium Matt Cutts reports that from today on, Google is finally offering siteoperators the possibility to inspect current backlink-data through their Sitemaps-Tool. This feature has been asked for repeatedly by webmasters in the past and it seems that Google has finally realized it. The backlinks are shown per page […]...

Two security problems that have an impact on the searchenginemarket have become public in the last few days: Google did not secure their Cookie-management sufficiently enough and SEO-Uberbloggers from the USA have to deal with a scriptkiddy that is exploiting a bug in the popular WordPress blogsystem. Google For a […]...

tecCHANNEL is reporting that AOL wants to take over the affiliate-marketing-operator TradeDoubler. AOL has supposedly offered 900 Million US-dollar and TradeDoubler has supposedly already agreed on that price....

Both the searchengineproviders Yahoo and Google will play a role in Apples new iPhone. While Google is offering the map and sateliteview with Google Maps and Yahoo is providing an email-service through IMAP-push technology. Once a new email arrives at the mailserver, this technology will forward ti to the mobile-phone […]...

To give an overview of relevant national and international searchengines, I have put together a list with the respective data-supplier, a screenshot and a few words about the searchengine....

Fresh from my feedreader and the bookmarkmanager: an overview of SEO-blogs in German that I am currently reading. Maybe someone will find a motivation there. Additionally, I would be happy to hear about stars of the blog-heaven that I have not yet found in the comments....

Here we have a blogger who quotes Spiegel Online about a Chinese Bus-manufacturer who is supposed to be brazenly copying the luxury-buses of the German manufacturer MAN. 3 month later they received a visit from a judicial officer who announced that the Chinese manufacturer was suing the blogger for a […]...

Caydels SEO Blog is reporting that Google is recently testing a negative keywordfilter for AdSense after they already have the possibility to exclude sites by URL for a long time. This means you can fill out a list with keywords and AdSense will not display ads anymore that fit these […]...