JohnWeb

Avatar Went Hot: February 15, 2008 - 3:30 pm
Posted By: JohnWeb 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google Other
In response to his growing concern over Google's treatment of his site with regards to the paid links issue, "I have spent a long time deciding on a course of action, and have decided that blocking my content using Robots.txt is ultimately better fo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 175 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Google Other
A google owned domain is plastered full of spammy and redirecting pages. The domain redirects to groups.google.com but someone has created subdomains which to host their spam. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us)
Category: Blogging
All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site.

Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2007 - 9:52 pm
Posted By: JohnWeb 245 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Active since June 2005 and with over 2500 posts, very active fellow Sphinner Sebastian is acknowledged today by the Patrick Chapman of the Google Search Quality team.

Patrick's blog post regarding the incredible polyglotness of the entire.

Mis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.advicediva.com)
Category: Google SEO
One woman's attempt to appease the Google gods to help her site rank better. It's actually quite funny if you follow all of the next links. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 280 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Google Searching
In an outstanding display of how authority and relevancy are trumped by wikipedia's unreal domination of Google's search results and example that may hit home for Google. Searching for PageRank returns Google as the #2 result! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 289 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://groups.google.com)
Category: Google SEO
Googlers Susan, JohnMu, Wysz, and Matt Cutts tackle issues such as disappearing homepage, false spam reports, reconsideration request timing, hidden text, and proper use of nofollow.Matt's contribution has yet to be added to the sticky and can be fo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.dmoz.org)
Category: Google Other
This sounds like something the guys in the black helicopters would say to you after the remove the flying object from your field, "It was just swamp gas". Instead the guys at DMOZ got their heads together yesterday with a team of Google engineers a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnWeb 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://johnmu.com)
Category: SEM
Googler John Mueller catalogs his frustration and some resulting recommendations from a personal story trying to find local businesses in Moutain View, CA. As he says, "There are opportunities in search all around - look around, take advan read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2007 - 10:20 pm
Posted By: JohnWeb 331 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.serptimized.com)
Category: Google Other
I haven't checked to see if this is even a working rendition of the exploit, but I find it interesting that someone would put up a site claiming to be able to automate a known exploit.

Is it just for attention? Is it so Google closes the door on read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2007 - 7:54 am
Posted By: JohnWeb 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://johnmu.com)
Category: Google Other
The long anticipated announcement by John Mueller (aka JohnMu and Softplus) that he will be joining the Google Team in in their Zürich (Switzerland) office, joining the team around the Webmaster Tools as a Webmaster Trends Analyst.

We all anticip read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2007 - 5:32 am
Posted By: JohnWeb 344 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cartoonbarry.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Yes, sad. He found it lying there, dead, on it's back, with those little feet up in the air.

He has this issue, Birds Fly Into His Office Window way too often. But He believes this is the first dead one he saw outside of his office.

So sad. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2007 - 9:41 am
Posted By: JohnWeb 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastianx.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Twitter is just the latest site to have drank the nofollow kool-aid. Sebastian covers it, with a bit of a surprise twist at the end. With guest appearances (in discussion at least) by Graywolf, Matt Cutts, and Harith. read more »
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