For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn’t take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans. After the very controversial hit many sites took just 2 weeks ago for various degrees of selling PageRank or linking to clients, you might … [Read more...]
Penalty Confirmed: But I Don’t Sell Pagerank
Danny Sullivan has managed to get some feedback from someone at Google confirmed visible PageRank penalties are being applied, as much as a -2 on what is displayed on the Google Toolbar. This post was my follow on from my post yesterday: Dancing With The Gevil: Defamed By Google? Fair enough, for those people who have been caught selling links primarily for boosting … [Read more...]
Open Social Web: Google + Feedburner Really Is Bad For RSS
I honestly laughed when I saw the new “Open Social Web” Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn’t to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term… Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others. 10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it’s easy to share feeds could be killing the … [Read more...]
7+7 Reasons Why Google Buying FeedBurner is a Match Made in Heaven & Hell
Rumours have been surfacing for the last few days that Google might be buying FeedBurner for around $100M. Listed below you will find 7 reasons Google and Feedburner are a perfect match, and 7 equally compelling reasons we should be concerned. Match Made In Heaven? There are some very positive reasons that this is an ideal match and I am going to concentrate on those … [Read more...]