Monthly Archives: November 2007

Time for a change – From link spam to user data

November 29, 2007 – 10:00 pm

During a recent in interview with a journalist I was asked to consider the current state of Google, especially in light of link Spam and Google’s efforts to combat something that’s getting a little out of hand.
The last time I felt that Google was this open to abuse was probably ‘just’ before the Florida [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Google, SEO, Social search, spam | Comments (1)

Specify country through Google webmaster tools

November 6, 2007 – 2:45 pm

Google has finally added a geo-targeting feature to their webmaster tools. They’ve been threatening this for a while – now you can chose the target country for your site, without having to move hosting or localising domains.

By nilhan | Posted in Google, Multi-region, SEO | Comments (2)

New style scraper comment spam

November 5, 2007 – 2:21 pm

David Naylor posted about a spam blog, which scrapes your content then blogs about you with a duplicated section of your post. I first noticed this when I had a ping back within five minutes of a post – quicker than Google blog search or Technorati.

By nilhan | Posted in SEO, Social Media, spam | Comments (0)

MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial

November 1, 2007 – 11:04 pm

Stories of MySpace joining OpenSocial has been confirmed over at VentureBeat. Google’s move to create an open standard for information sharing across social networks was announced yesterday. This will allow developers to build applications that are independent of the specific social network infrastructure.
While many experts are claiming the emergence of an anti Facebook cartel, [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Google, Social Media | Comments (0)