Search-This » Google http://www.search-this.com Internet Marketing, Website Promotion and Blogging Advice Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:22:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Don’t Use Your <head> http://www.search-this.com/2007/08/07/dont-use-your-head/ http://www.search-this.com/2007/08/07/dont-use-your-head/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:03:38 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2007/08/07/dont-use-your-head/ Where did you place your Google Analytics script?

Hopefully not in the <head>...

Google's Analytic script is pretty intensive and if placed in the head then your pages could be taking longer to load than need be.

Your script, like the one below, should be placed directly before the close of the </body> tag!

PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
  2. </script>
  3. <script type="text/javascript">
  4.   _uacct = "UA-XXXXXXX-1";
  5.   urchinTracker();
  6.  
  7. </script>

Judging by the fact that some big dogs like: Copyblogger, ShoeMoney and CSSBeauty all have it wrong, you might want to check yourself.

Just trying to give you a <head>s up :)

]]> http://www.search-this.com/2007/08/07/dont-use-your-head/feed/ 13 Get Your Blog out of the Supplemental Index http://www.search-this.com/2007/04/26/get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/ http://www.search-this.com/2007/04/26/get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:56:12 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2007/04/26/get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/ Chris Garrett has a good post about Google's supplemental index and how to pull your blog out of it.

[ digg it ]

Search-This currently has 159 pages in the supplemental index.

Additional reading on Google's Supplemental Index:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006740.html
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-i-escaped-googles-supplemental-hell
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002047.shtml
http://tropicalseo.com/2007/how-to-escape-googles-supplemental-index/

]]> http://www.search-this.com/2007/04/26/get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/feed/ 1 Google Blog on NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOARCHIVE & NOSNIPPET META Tags http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/24/google-blog-on-noindex-nofollow-noarchive-nosnippet-meta-tags/ http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/24/google-blog-on-noindex-nofollow-noarchive-nosnippet-meta-tags/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:12:16 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/24/google-blog-on-noindex-nofollow-noarchive-nosnippet-meta-tags/ The Google Blog explains the robots exclusion protocol:

"Usually when the Googlebot finds a page, it reads all the links on that page and then fetches those pages and indexes them."

But, what if you don't want Google to index a page, or follow the links on a page, or archive a page?

Here is a list of META tags you can use:

  • NOINDEX tells Google not to index the page
  • NOFOLLOW tells Google not to follow the links on the page
  • NOARCHIVE tells Google not to store a cached copy of the page
  • NOSNIPPET tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will automatically get NOARCHIVE too
]]> http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/24/google-blog-on-noindex-nofollow-noarchive-nosnippet-meta-tags/feed/ 1 Google Webmaster Tools – Links http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/06/google-webmaster-tools-links/ http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/06/google-webmaster-tools-links/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:15:47 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/06/google-webmaster-tools-links/ Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools users are in for a real treat! Google now provides a table that list pages within your site that have links pointing to them from other sites. You can even download the table.

Thanks Google, that's very handy...

[ more here ]

]]> http://www.search-this.com/2007/02/06/google-webmaster-tools-links/feed/ 0 Google, The Number 1 Company to Work For http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/11/google-the-number-1-company-to-work-for/ http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/11/google-the-number-1-company-to-work-for/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:19:38 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/11/google-the-number-1-company-to-work-for/ What makes it so great?
According to FORTUNE the new No. 1 sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. No wonder Google gets 1,300 résumés a day.

[ more here and here ]

]]> http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/11/google-the-number-1-company-to-work-for/feed/ 1 Google Still Going Up http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/05/google-still-going-up/ http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/05/google-still-going-up/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:30:52 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/05/google-still-going-up/ A mere eight years old, Google is approaching $10 billion in revenues, with growth over the past 12 months still at a torrid 77%. - BusinessWeek

]]> http://www.search-this.com/2007/01/05/google-still-going-up/feed/ 1 Dealing with Duplicate Content – From Google http://www.search-this.com/2006/12/19/dealing-with-duplicate-content-from-google/ http://www.search-this.com/2006/12/19/dealing-with-duplicate-content-from-google/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:49:09 +0000 Golgotha http://www.search-this.com/2006/12/19/dealing-with-duplicate-content-from-google/ Adam Lasnik from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog gives Webmasters some proactive solutions to deal with duplicate content.

If you are concerned about duplicate content, then this would be a good read for you.

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  1. Bebo
  2. Myspace
  3. World cup
  4. Metacafe
  5. Radioblog
  6. Wikipedia
  7. Video
  8. Rebelde
  9. Mininova
  10. Wiki

Yahoo - Top Searches in 2006

  1. Britney Spears
  2. WWE
  3. Shakira
  4. Jessica Simpson
  5. Paris Hilton
  6. American Idol
  7. Beyonce Knowles
  8. Chris Brown
  9. Pamela Anderson
  10. Lindsay Lohan

MSN - Top Searches in 2006

  1. Ronaldinho
  2. Shakira
  3. Paris Hilton
  4. Britney Spears
  5. Harry Potter
  6. Eminem
  7. Pamela Anderson
  8. Hilary Duff
  9. Rebelde
  10. Angelina Jolie

Anyone else find Google's top 10 searches for 2006 a little strange; or at least different as compared with Yahoo and MSN?

Yahoo and MSN both have Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton in their top 10 searches. Google doesn't have any of these ladies?!

Can we say that Googles users are a little more highbrow than that of Yahoo and MSN?

And hats off to Pam Anderson. Did she do anything in 2006? Yet, still in the top 10!!

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"Google Audio Ads brings efficiency, accountability, and enhanced ROI to radio advertising by providing advertisers with an online interface for creating and launching radio campaigns. You'll be able to target your customers by location, station type, day of the week, and time of day. After the radio ads are run, you will be able to view online reports that tell you exactly when your ad played."

"Over the last year, we've been partnering with both terrestrial and satellite radio stations across the U.S. so that our advertisers have many options for broadcasting their ads -- whether it's a Country station in Tyler, Texas or an Adult Contemporary station in New York City. Currently, there are hundreds of stations to choose from and we hope to grow the list over the coming year. Our broadcast partners are looking forward to making their ad inventories available to thousands of new advertisers, especially since they aren't easily accessible today."

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