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Comment on The Hypocrisy of Google’s Top Heavy Page Layout Algorithm by Julia

Julia — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:49:58 +0000

They really are a pack of hypocrites. Not only that, but the Adsense team told me to put large ads above the fold & now I’ve been penalised. When I spoke to my contact at Adsense, she suggested I advertise with Adwords to get more traffic.

I’m no longer using Google for search, I’m fed up with the hypocrisy of them. The fact that their Adsense team can give you advise on how to lay out your ads, and Panda comes along and whacks you, which results in loss of business.

Comment on Google Caching Search Results Pages by Justin

Justin — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:38:07 +0000

Not sure exactly what you’re asking??

Comment on Google Caching Search Results Pages by Blog RelaxedMoments

Blog RelaxedMoments — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:53:36 +0000

Do you mostly just for your site or you do that for other online networks?

Comment on Still Think Social Media Is The Way Forward For Your Business?…Think Again! by Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:03:49 +0000

I’m a firm believer in your stats, for most sites that is. However I’d just like to offer up some stats from a website that I run, with a mainly teenage audience.

Here’s the current traffic source breakdown for my site OneDirection.net:

1. Facebook (25%)
2. Twitter (13%)
3. Google.com (11%)
4. Facebook Mobile (9%)
5. Google+ (4%)

Interesting huh! What surprises me is actually how fast Google+ is climbing up our list of referrers. 2-3 months ago it was nowhere, but now we’re actively using it as much as Facebook and our numbers are growing at the same rate (if not slightly faster) than Facebook.

I’m a firm believer that Google is still the best source of traffic so I agree with the main topic of the article, but I think social media has a higher prevalence the younger an audience gets.

Chris.

Comment on So Many Idiots On Webmaster Help Forums by Sp

Sp — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:14:49 +0000

Thanks. While most of my pages are clobbered in serps, two page still rank in the top five for competitive keywords. Any thoughts on doing a temporary 301, wait for google to show the new page in serps, then switch to a 302?

Comment on So Many Idiots On Webmaster Help Forums by Justin

Justin — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:06:41 +0000

302s are just temporary redirects. They cannot pass a penalty across, they don’t even pass links across. All it does is divert the user.

We have done this method several times and it works fine.

Comment on So Many Idiots On Webmaster Help Forums by Sp

Sp — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:48:38 +0000

Regarding your forum post on 302s, I can’t find anything on the web that asserts that a 302 redirect doesn’t pass a penalty? Did you discover this through trial an error? How long ago did you implement the 302? I inherited a slapped site and would like to salvage a couple articles from it.

Comment on How To Tell If Google Thinks Your Website Is A Brand by John Gilkes

John Gilkes — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:42:18 +0000

I noticed the seven results recently but never associated with brands. I did a few checks and it looks like you may have a point here. Thanks for the heads up.