Archive for December, 2007
At last an end to the Folder V Subdomain argument.
Just a few years ago, Google used to treat a subdomain as a completely different site to the main domain. Then things got a little blurred. Some factors like trust could be inherited by the subdomain but some folk thought the folders had a slight edge.
Subdomain certainly had other advantages – you could have […]
Danny Sullivan on Facebook ads
Danny over at SEOMoz talking to Rand Fishkin about the new Facebook beacon ads
Blogger testing OpenID
While this is only an experiment openID commenting, I’m sure it will rollout as a standard not just across Blogger but most blogging platforms and social networks. Or at least it should. The implications are huge, from just allowing an easy way to comment on other people’s blogs to more sophisticated ways to remove blog […]
Did Google ban link sellers using adwords?
I’m seeing a cleanup on adwords listings for link sellers. On some phrases like ‘buy links’ and ‘text links’ there’re no more ads. Though still plenty for ‘links’. If this is here to stay then about time.
Now all Google has to do is to stop bought links from working and we should see them out […]
Matt Cutts explains Google stance on Pay-per-post
Just been reading Matt Cutts on pay per post. He points out that this is definitely against the Google guidelines, but takes an interesting angle, kind of appealing to the humanity in people.
Pointing out a pay per post review of a cancer treatment site and asking how you’d feel if you or a family […]
