Google owns the universe. All you seo’rs out there… What’s the deal with trying to fight the power? I mean, I “get it”, sorta, but from a business perspective, does it really make sense? Are you doing your clients a service or disservice by taking on Google? Check out this thread by my friend Michael [...]
18
Dec
Google, & You, Need To Learn How To Make Things Easier
Google has decided that they’re going to allow you to create sitemaps for them for your video content. This is great news. I’m in. Let’s do it. So I head over to the page explaining how to make them, and I’m stopped dead in my tracks. Are you kidding me? It’s way too complicated. So [...]
14
Dec
Google Adds Blogs To The Matrix – Blogs Finally Legit
The legitimizing moment for blogs has occurred. Google is adding blogs into their regular index as part of Google Universal Search (video link). Starting this week or next, queries on the leading search engine will return links to blogs alongside the images, news, books, local maps and video, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products [...]
06
Dec
No Google Juice? No Tip For You?
Donna over at Seo-Scoop.com wrote a ponderous post today musing about why more people in the SEO industry aren’t more willing to advertise if no Google juice is involved. I love Scratchback and the whole concept behind it (Scratchback is that widget to the right that says Are You In My TopSpots?). I might not [...]
03
Dec
Link Sellers: Google Don’t Want Yo Money
Today, in what means to me that they REALLY mean business, Google decided that you can’t advertise with them if you’re trying to promote the selling of links that pass page rank. Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don’t carry the “nofollow†attribute as a “machine-readable disclosure.†The latest [...]
20
Nov
Google Universal Search Ramping Up To Go Mainstream?
I’m a big believer in Google Universal Search, the video piece of it at least. Heck, I directed and wrote a video commercial for it. That’s me “the boss” in the beginning. I’ve even helped build an entire business model around it. So I’m constantly monitoring the Google looking for indications that it’s finally going [...]
09
Oct
First Look Inside Google Video Adsense – Does It Work?
You can now log in to Adsense and choose the Adsense for Video, which I just did. Update: Ads not showing up in blog entry, so I removed the examples. Anyone have a fix for posting the code in a blog entry? Check out my other blog at AsktheBlogger.com, or Jake’s blog for a great [...]
08
Oct
How To Setup New Google Adsense Video Units
Here’s a video of how to setup your new Google Adsense video ad units. Hat tip Shawn at Affiliatetip.com. In addition, here’s a video from the video product team at Google explaining it all.
08
Oct
Syndicated YouTube Video Ads Means BIG Bucks For Video Publishers
Game on for video publishers. There is officially no reason to not get into the video business. In another HUGE move by GoogTube, they have announced that they’ll begin showing videos as ad on “other” websites. What does this mean? Let’s examine it. With the new twist, websites participating in AdSense now can sign up [...]
07
Oct
Google Flexes On Page Rank Debate Once Again
Are you buying or selling Google juice? The debate rages on. Or, actually, did Google just end it? Last week, I noticed the Stanford Daily had dropped from when I wrote the above in April to PR7 today. That’s a huge drop that has no apparent reason to happen. Some others were also reporting PageRank [...]
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