Dear Google
Your recent decision to invoke a manual penalty on the download page for Google Chrome will have lasting ramifications for the whole of online marketing, whether display advertising, affiliate marketing, and other performance marketing such as CPA models, making many such business models unworkable.
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Google launched their +1 button today. Lots of people have writeups but I suppose they have had prior access in some way. Heres one on Search Engine Land for instance.
But one thing I haven’t read about anywhere are the technical implications of +1 and the way it deals with canonicalization of votes, which currently is significantly inferior to both Facebook and Twitter.
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It seems Google has given Twitter some kind of penalty, possibly for cloaking.
Watch this video for the details
Video:- Has Google Given Twitter a Cloaking Penalty?
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To check the cached Google page you will have to switch off javascript using something like the web developer toolbar for Firefox.
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A couple of months ago we introduced some new Video SEO features into the uQast player and now all the wrinkles have been ironed out, including some work arounds for sub-optimal code within WordPress core in regards to oEmbed, a large chunk of it is working as intended.
Read more on Laser Targeted Video SEO…
Hosting has always been a little bit of a dog eat dog industry, but with CDNs it gets a little more complicated because you are paying for a specifc quantity of a specific resource… bandwidth.
Read more on SimpleCDN – Being Killed By CDN Competitors (VPS.NET)?…
So How Can You Get uQast For Free?
I have compiled a list of the reasons I believe people should be interested in uQast (and what attracted me in the first place)
It also mentions my uQast Bonus
Read more on uQast – How Andy Beard Was Subverted…
Yahoo are today presenting the future of their product lineup and espcially how their search engine will differentiate from Bing… once they are using Bing data everywhere.
But that is just for users… how about website owners, developers and SEOs?
Read more on Yahoo For SEO – Search Monkey Lives On…
Lots of rash statements get written by new media types after a press conference by Google, as an attempt to grab attention or to validate their business model by detrimenting that of others.
I am glad Matt Cutts, Marissa Mayer and many other Googlers have been fairly quick to defend the continued need for some kind of Search Engine Optimization, because ultimately a lot of what is SEO helps Google index content and find relevance.
Read more on Keystroke Optimization For Google Instant…
Paul had a nasty Christmas present, an email notifying him that his training videos were in breach of Vimeo’s no commercial use policy.
You could believe his shock, with so many popular tech, web design & SEO blogs being allowed to flaunt the rules.
Read more on Vimeo – Remove Your Videos & Links Now…
This is in many ways one of the most painful blog posts I could write, because it is about a service that is the closest anyone has come in 4 years to the “software as a service platform” I would like to create.
The business model is totally different but the front end seems to have many of the features and attention to detail that I would require, and to be honest much of what I want to achieve on the backend & network effect isn’t necessary for many business users.
If what I want to create is a lion, Quansite is a tiger – different animals, different prey – both killers and could probably co-exist.
Quansite is a WordPress based blogging platform for business, but calling it that is really doing it a bit of a disservice.
It is the kind of system that will take a huge bite out of the business of high-priced website development shops targeting small business, because so much is done for you.
There are a couple of WordPress themes I know of which can claim drag and drop, but they are not designed for creating sales pages & one-time offers, or “touch of a button” squeeze page creation.
Despite the number of high profile blogs that seem to be allowed to bend the Vimeo terms of service, Vimeo make it reasonably clear multiple times on their website that they are not for commercial use.
Their terms of service mentions it
The signup page mentions it clearly… below the fold it is however very easy to miss.
