Check out the screenshot of the new Google Images Layout at Matt Cutts Blog. They hidden the informations of each pictures (size, date of addition, format, weight etc…) when you type a search on Google Images in order to keep it clean as Google always looked like.
Which version you like? That one or the old one?
I prefer that one 😀
Jeff of Avivadirectory and John Scott of V7n launched The Superiority of V7N Contextual Links:
[26/01/2007] The Undetectable thing has been deleted, i’m glad i took that screenshot, the reasons why are simply in order to not declare hostility with the major search engines.
You can have tons of informations about it at the V7n Forum and Aviva Downloadblog. Personally i think the idea is great but, it can be dangerous in terms of relevancy, and excessive linking to different sites on the same blog page would not be a so great idea. Furthermore it would manipulates SERPs like hell, well let’s see how it’ll evolve anyway!
So as you can see on the screenshot above, and on the V7n Contextual link page:
It says that the links are undetectable by search engines, which got on the nerves of Matt Cutts, you can read about it at the Search Engine Journal V7n Contextual Link post of Loren Baker’s blog.
Then irritated by the sentence ‘ undetectable by search engines ‘ as mentionned on the V7n Contextual Link page, Matt Cutts decided to create an ” Undetectable Spam ” Post to conclude that the technique employed by John Scott is ” probably violating the quality guidelines of Google and the guidelines of other major search engines.”, which is, probably true.
Well, also, what’s the point buying links if it’s undetectable by search engines?
[26/01/2007] V7n Counter Attack
You can read at the Internet-Marketing-Blog.com JS proving his honnesty with his program, i would feel bad that the head of the Google’s Webspam team is attacking me, my sites or whatever i got on the web.
Other Cool Sources:
John Scott wants to buy Blog Links.
Check out the DP (Google) Directory killer Thread!
Search Engine Journal
Ninety Seventh Floor
There is an article on google blog about duplicated content which i recommend to read. I’m not a psychic nor an ultra intelligent person but i figured that out before they posted it, there are some missing informations though.
If you have been scammed by a webmaster that duplicated your content, you can file a DMCA request to prove you are the real owner of the content and not the scammer(s)!
Good luck,
By the way there are no info about directories, well i wouldn’t worry about directories. Web directories are obviously duplicated content, not all directories can’t have original and unique content, even IWD is a mix of DogPile, Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Yahoo Directory, DMOZ, and others… If i had to write a description each time I manually add a link, well i would not have 6500 sites listed by now!
I am adding websites to the category WORLD of IWD. And to find sites i mostly use the search engine ASK and Google. Most of the listings in the directory are from Google (51% +).
So i had to type all the countries on google, and i always found the exact same sites. This is really over saturated!
Those Famous Websites!
1/ Wikipedia is ahead of the list! You will always see a wikipedia article about any country you search on google.
2/ The CIA World Fact Book.
3/ Lonelyplanet.com – Travel guide. Full of tips about travelling, i do read those sites before i add them!
4/ InfoPlease.com – So this site is also one that i often see on google SERP.
5/ Geographia.com – Not so often but appears a lot of time for African related countries keywords.
6/ The Yahoo! Directory. Yep, it does appears sometimes. Way more than dead DMOZ!
7/ Also one that i start to see more than often is WikiTravel, those wiki stuffs are really taking over.
Yeah! What would happen? We all know that google uses the information of the Open Directory Project (which is dead but… well we’ll see if it’s really so in the forthcoming month), but… what would happen if Google edits their directory and hire editors for it once DMOZ is really dead?
Isn’t it a wonderful way to block spam? I wonder if spammers would submit to it! Any ideas/opinions/reflexions from you are welcome
I’ve been wondering, how much the leaders of the world are popular on the search engines, and i started typing down most of the presidents name i have in my memory on Google and see how many search results we get Back:
France: [ Jacques Chirac ] – 10,300,000 Results Returned
Spain: [ José Luis RodrÃÂguez Zapatero ] – 3,410,000 Results Returned
Vietnam: [ Nguyen Minh Triet ] – 64,800 Results Returned
Russia: [ Vladimir Putin ] – 8,110,000 Results Returned
USA: [ George W. Bush ] – 180,000,000 Results Returned
United Kingdom: [ Tony Blair ] – 35,300,000 Results Returned
Germany: [ Angela Merkel ] – 7,090,000 Results Returned
Italy: [ Romano Prodi ] – 5,670,000 Results Returned
Venezuela: [ Hugo Chávez FrÃÂas ] – 1,270,000 Results Returned
Cuba: [ Fidel Castro ] – 17,200,000 Results Returned
Mexico: [ Vicente Fox ] – 8,770,000 Results Returned
Panama: [ MartÃÂn Torrijos ] – 727,000 Results Returned
China: [ Hu Jintao ] – 3,050,000 Results Returned
South Korea: [ Han Myung-sook ] – 40,900 Results Returned
Laos: [ Bouasone Bouphavanh ] – 40,600 Results Returned
Thailand: [ Thaksin Shinawatra ] – 938,000 Results Returned
India: [ Manmohan Singh ] – 2,530,000 Results Returned
Pakistan: [ Shaukat Aziz ] – 702,000 Results Returned
Iran: [ Ali Khamenei ] – 1,040,000 Results Returned
Israel: [ Ehud Olmert ] – 5,360,000 Results Returned
Nigeria: [ Olusẹgun Ọbasanjá» ] – 230 Results Returned
South Africa: [ Thabo Mbeki ] – 1,840,000 Results Returned
Egypt: [ Ahmed Nazif ] – 188,000 Results Returned
Australia: [ John Howard ] – 87,500,000 Results Returned
New Zealand: [ Helen Clark ] – 14,200,000 Results Returned
Indonesia: [ Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ] – 1,240,000 Results Returned
Barbados: [ Owen Arthur ] – 8,490,000 Results Returned
North Korea: [ Kim Il-sung ] – 785,000 Results Returned
Top winner is the US, then comes Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and France… There is more countries (192) and i don’t have time to list them all!
Cheers!
I was navigating on http://whois.webhosting.info/, and never thought i could make a whois search for google which you can see here!
Amongst them the most original are:
– ALLEVIL.ORG.
– CROTALES.COM. (Lol, means horsesh*t in french)
– FIREHUNT.COM.
– MYDEJANEWS.COM.
– SAVEMTPLEASANTJOBS.COM. (LOL?)
It seems like google is becoming more evil with allevil.org, thats kind of scary!
Hello,
Me and my friend portprophecy were comparing our web directories indexed pages on google this morning, usual stuff, we used the site: command of google. And while i was navigating in his indexed pages, i found out some major errors from big G, it seems like google is not updating the cache of some of his websites:
This is how the SERP looks like.
There are 2 major problems here. The first problem:
If you click on the last listing which is the PortProphecy FAQ page, you will arrive on his web directory, but if you click the cached button at the bottom of the FAQ listing, you’ll get all kind of informations about that page. Here we see that the page has been retreived by google bot on May 15 2006. But we are in September 2006? It is a very old cache! Also portprophecy told me that he deleted that page in late December 2005, it means that even the cache page is wrong about those informations.
And there is a proof of this:
At the bottom of the cached FAQ page, you can see 2 other web directories in sitewide (Qettle, Unadir), but in May, portprophecy had more than 6 web directories in sitewide! So this is a very old cache. That would explain why google didn’t update his web directories pagerank.
Google uses cache informations retrieved by googlebot in order to calculate the pagerank of each site on internet (calculate pagerank needs lots of time and power, internet is constantly fluctuating so calculating pagerank on internet is like suicide), there is no live-pagerank bar, the pagerank we see in the google toolbar is the pagerank calculated in the previous PR update. But your website can be a PR0 site and rank for some high keywords on Google, because of the live pagerank–the one we cannot see and also because this is a young site, after 3 months maximum your site should get some pagerank logically.
So here the pagerank of portprophecy.com is the one that was 9 months ago. Some of his sites didn’t had their pagerank updated for like 3 updates! It’s a lot! And his websites are web directories, pagerank is very important when you are in the web directories business.
There is many websites that got the same kind of problem, Internet-Marketing-Blog (PR2 should be PR6), Alivedirectory (PR4 should be PR7) and others, really a lots of sites are suffering because of their cache way too old and unupdated.
Also Portprophecy.com should be a PR6 web directory and not a PR4.
The second problem is that, all of his indexed pages are supplemental results.
What are supplemental results?
Supplemental sites are part of Google’s auxiliary index. We’re able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index. For example, the number of parameters in a URL might exclude a site from being crawled for inclusion in our main index; however, it could still be crawled and added to our supplemental index.
The index in which a site is included is completely automated; there’s no way for you to select or change the index in which your site appears. Please be assured that the index in which a site is included does not affect its PageRank.
Lol, well the sites that have supplemental results are suffering ‘fewer restraints’, what the hell is that? Also that last sentence “supplemental results does not affect Pagerank” it might be true. Alivedirectory doesn’t have any supplemental results, but its homepage pagerank is still affected!
In the movie of Matt Cutts where he is talking about supplemental results, we can hear:
[…Historically the supplemental results have been a lot of extra datas, but have not been refreshed as fast as the main web results…]~Matt Cutts.
So is it because of the supplemental results that Portprophecy.com doesn’t have its cache often refreshed, so by consequences it will not have its real pagerank? Or is it something else?
For me it sounds like a vicious circle that once you get in, its impossible to get out.
In Conclusion
Google should really update its cache from time to time. For myself i’ve nothing to worry about but for some webmasters its not the same affair.
Also there is many conspiracy theory, that all sites that are 12 – 9 months old can’t have an y new pagerank, but there is no reasons why.
Image taken from SERoundtable.com.
As you can see, the webmaster of the listed sites put them up on google for the keyword ‘top 5 seo excuses’ as you can read on seroundtable and also at the dp thread top 5 seo excuses.
Of course the webmaster that realized that stunt is good even very good, he had to put each sub domains on different IPs and put a strategy on his link popularity building to avoid seeing the number 5th coming up in pole position for example (might be true) , it was a great order for the sites for each title’s meaning. Now that everybody knows about it, this is how the SERPS looks like for Top 5 seo excuses keyword:
Sucks for the webmaster in question.