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Really Evil – The “Don’t Be Evil” Bookmarklet

It is not as benign as you might think.

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Here is a link to the original 720p mp4

Some of the points raised in the video

  1. We need to avoid a cartel of top sites with limited access, especially with Ggoogle and Facebook currently buying ads from each other in the free market.

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Google+ Now Gets A Full Banana – Canonical Support

Back in June when Google +1 was first introduced (the voting on links, not the full Google+ experience) I wrote about an issue I had with the new service.

Google +1 & The Problem With Canonicalization Of Votes

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Open Video To Google – Please Reinstate Chrome

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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rel=”author” is Same-Site Only

I managed to ping Google’s @mattcutts after the announcement of rel=”author” support from Google on Twitter and he clarified the use case a little.

As Twitter’s search is still so terrible at finding things I am adding the conversation here.

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Google +1 & The Problem With Canonicalization Of Votes

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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Video Exclusive: Has Google Given Twitter a Cloaking Penalty?

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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Google Farmer Update – Self Diagnostic Kit

I have been having lots of people contact me over the weekend panicing over whether they have been affected by Google’s latest algorithmic update “Farmer”.

If you have relatively stable search traffic volume it is fairly easy to detect and I have a custom report set up to do the sleuthing work.

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Yahoo For SEO – Search Monkey Lives On

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?

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Google Promotion Of Webmaster Tools In Search Results

I don’t run site queries anywhere near as often as I used to, but I was just doing a few indexation queries to pull up some examples and came across this interesting “Google Promotion” for webmaster tools.

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Google Testing Vertical White Space In SERPs

So what?

This is an extension of the tests Google seem to be doing with the number of search results that I spotted over the weekend.

Here we have 2 search listings.

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