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1. Google’s first doodle was quite straight forward and no one probably expected them to become so popular and eventually be enjoyed and shared worldwide on certain anniversaries and events. This is the first Google Doodle:
2. Google’s first Tweet was hugely geeky as you would expect! It was sent on February 26th 2009 and it read as follows:
Blocking Bad Back Links and Blocking IP’s or Bad Neighborhood Links
Here is the process I use to block bad back links;
The problem; Google bowling or bad SEO created multiple bad back links from porn sites but you can’t contact them (or don’t want to spend the weeks it could take) to get them removed.
The Solution; Download the back links from Majestic SEO. Run them through the bulk URL check at LinkResearchTools.com (strength tool). Isolate the url’s that you want to block.
At first glance the package looks quite promising, although any link builder that I’ve ever worked with will probably tell you that they either don’t have the time or don’t need this sort of suite to be able to tell whether a link is good or not (and to some extent I agree), so that pretty much rules them out as a target market, making the name of the product somewhat misleading.
Personally, I thought that whilst this sort of thing is very nice its real purpose lies in either early analysis, reporting or simply to have another tool to say you use to impress clients.
A Saturday evening spent watching mid 90s reruns of Who Wants to Be Millionaire may seems an unlikely starting point for a blog post, but here goes. I began to notice that the questions seemed quite easy. I thought perhaps I was just having a good run, though several episodes later I had realised that actually the questions are easier than the relative ones you may get at the same point in the game today. I remember in particular one question was ‘How many pyramids are in Giza, Egypt?’ Now this was for the £250,000 and without Googling I can be pretty assured in saying it is three, and excuse me for making sweeping presumptions but I imagine you could, too.
Then I immediately jumped to the conclusion that the internet, or more specifically, access to a nigh-on infinite amount of information has resulted in people with a stronger knowledge base. Not more intelligent, per se, but simply a population who know more facts.
As a lot of you will know the big Buzz (pun intended) in the Google world is about this Google Freshness update or the “mint” update. Now this won’t affect all of you, but a lot of Webmasters in the sports, coupon and tech industries must be having kittens right about now, that highly authoritative page they had could be rendered useless simply by its age which may have previously been of benefit.
Whilst a lot of this article is subject to testing and is currently purely speculative, we have come up with some ideas as to what Google will be looking at to evaluate a page’s freshness and the worrying fact is that a lot of these things seem very easily cheatable.
1. When was your page indexed – this could be the first time that the page was crawled or when it first appeared in the SERPs, this would stand to reason as it would be the most difficult to game.
Gary Beal: Its basically a broken link...which is why it work...
Peter Zmijewski: WOW!!!!
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Kevin: This doesn't make any sense.
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