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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 22, 2009

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:09:41 +0000

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Naver Launches Closed Beta For Japan Search

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:09:39 +0000

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A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on a closed beta launch of a new Japanese search engine by the very popular South Korean portal, Naver. The search portal can be found at http://www.naver.jp/ and it is currently a closed beta. The…

Hackers Seizing Control of RSS Feeds: Beware

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:10:31 +0000

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A Google Reader Help thread reports an increase in the number of RSS feeds being hacked into and used to redirect subscribers to spammer sites. Googler, Roger, from the Google Reader team said: Thanks for reporting this problem. Unfortunately, we’ve…

Keeping Track Of Links, With Link Building Tools & Spreadsheets

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:02:44 +0000

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Ann Smarty at Search Engine Journal has a nice short piece on link building worksheets. These spreadsheets help link builders keep track of their link building efforts. She links to three worksheets, including: Ontolo’s worksheetKalena’s blog postYour SEO Plan In…

Google Told Me, My Daughter Is A Porn Star

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:46:11 +0000

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An interesting thread at Google Web Search Help started by “anotherDad” tells the story of how a father was shocked to see a pornographic site come up in the Google search results for a search for his daughter’s name. He…

Google News Makes Authors More Findable

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:37:01 +0000

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The Google News Blog announced a neat new feature where they hyperlink the author’s name in the Google News results. If you click on the authors name it basically takes you to a search for articles by that author, i.e….

Google Maps Lookup by Longitude & Latitude Now Requires LOC Prefix

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:15 +0000

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According to at least two Google Maps Help Threads, Google Maps changed how they handle looking up a specific location by longitude and latitude. Supposedly, in the past, entering in the longitude followed by a comma and followed by the…

June 2009 Google PageRank Update: Kind Of Early

John Sisler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:20:25 +0000

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There are hundreds of reports across the web about a Google PageRank update. Most of you know, I am not a fan of the PageRank score displayed in the Google Toolbar, but I report it anyway, because I report what…

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 2009

John Sisler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:00:00 +0000

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Google Testing Display URL At Top of AdWords Ads?

John Sisler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:56:21 +0000

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Update: This is not something Google is testing. The WebmasterWorld member sent me a screen shot and it has been that way since at least 2004. So ignore this post. A WebmasterWorld thread reports one person seeing the display URL…