Nederlanders zijn niet blij met veranderingen in het sociale leven, maar wel met social media. 'We' hechten veel belang aan de omgang met anderen, maar verwachten dat de manier waarop we met elkaar omgaan in de toekomst steeds individualistischer wordt. Dit concludeert marktonderzoekbureau Blauw, dat in opdracht van BNP Paribas onderzoek deed onder 1113 Nederlanders.
Internetbedrijf Google lijkt nu toch echt werk te maken van een eigen dienst op het gebied van social network sites. Volgens de Amerikaanse zakenkrant The Wall Street Journal is Google momenteel in gesprek met aanbieders van spelletjes op internet om een nieuwe sociale netwerk-dienst te ontwikkelen. Hiermee zou het bedrijf de concurrentie willen aangaan met andere sociale netwerksites, zoals Facebook. Volgens welingelichte bronnen gaat Google om die reden z'n eigen dienst 'Google Profiles' gericht upgraden.
Vanaf vandaag heeft de sociale netwerksite Facebook 500 miljoen leden, zo is bekend gemaakt. Deze mensen gebruiken Facebook om in contact te komen/blijven met vrienden en allerlei andere mensen of partijen om hen heen. Soms met privé- of hobbymatige overwegingen, en steeds vaker ook met het oog op business opportunities. Dat Facebook zo populair is, is niet verwonderlijk. Het wordt een diversiteit aan gebruikers (en webbeheerders) namelijk op veel vlakken erg makkelijk gemaakt. Goede doelen en non-profits krijgen bijvoorbeeld handige features aangereikt.
Als zoekmachinemarketing-expert ben ik dagelijks bezig met de ontwikkelingen binnen onze branche. De verhouding tussen Google, concurrenten van Google, grote en kleine adverteerders en de affiliates fascineren me al geruime tijd.
Paras Chopra is de ontwikkelaar van de Visual Website Optimizer (VWO), een testing tool die begin 2009 is geïntroduceerd als alternatief voor de (in 2006 geïntroduceerde) Google Website Optimizer. Met beide (gratis) tools zijn vele testen mogelijk in het kader van conversie-optimalisatie van websites. Traffic Builders zet de VWO voor verschillende klanten in als alternatief voor de Google-tool. Toen wij de mogelijkheid hadden Paras Chopra te spreken, lieten we die niet lopen.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
This week's video is a bit longer than most, but that is okay, next week there won't be a video recap. Bing seemed to update their search ranking algorithm this week. Google may have tweaked their MayDay algorithm? Google added better rich snippet error reporting and is now allowing markup for the breadcrumb URLs. Is MSNBot cloaking again? Google says using Google Translate to auto-translate your content is spam. Google added a new way to find subject specific blogs, it works well. Google continues to rank legally seized web sites. Yahoo began the paid search migration to Microsoft adCenter this week. Sending $65,000 on a web site should mean Google will like the site. How does Google rank which point of interest labels make it on Google Maps? Sphinn dropped voting, is that the end of the community? Inc magazine said Google cost a web site owner four-million dollars, but in reality, it was a link broker. SEO is more than what you read on blogs and forums, just know that. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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If you visit Google New Zealand today, you will see a special animated logo. The logo is a buckyball or fullerence. A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube.
It might show up on other Google properties as the clock strikes midnight there. But right now, it seems to be live only New Zealand and Australia, where it is already Saturday.
The logo is unique for a Google logo in that you can twist and turn the ball with your mouse. Here is a video:
Give it a try on Google New Zealand or tomorrow for many places.
Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.
Have you ever stumbled upon a web site that was legally seized by the U.S. government? Sometimes, not always, they contain an image on the site that looks like this:
Some folks at WebmasterWorld are saying that Google has been ranking these web sites for their original search terms, the search terms they ranked for prior to the take over, months after they have been seized.
The first complaint read:
Great that piracy is being cracked down on, but what I don't understand is why do Google still return the URLs within the SERPs, even though there isn't any content on any page. So no internal links, no copy, no headers, high bounce rate - but yet I have lots of examples of 'seized' websites returning high up in SERPs - which leads to the main issue - external links.
Personally, I think I have seen it come up once in my search history. Robert Charlton from WebmasterWorld said, "I've seen sites with content taken down rank for a fair amount of time afterwards, at least in situations where there's at least a place holder page online and there are residual links pointing to the page."
Maybe the issue with these take down notices is that the server response is often not set to a 404 page not found? But technically, the page is found, just was taken over by the U.S. government.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters complaining that Microsoft is cloaking their MSNBots again, soon to be named BingBot.
It has been going on recently since early August and continues throughout today.
Microsoft has had issues with cloaking their bots in the past and fixed them. Is it possible they are breaking into bad habits once again?
One senior member at WebmasterWorld said:
Currently, straight out of my logs...65.52.33.73 - - [05/Aug/2010:15:45:09 -0700] "GET /dir/filename.html HTTP/1.1" 403 1468 "-" "-"
No UA, no robots.txt, no REF, no nothing. Not once. Not twice. Not even three times. Try eleven.
After about a month, one member said:
I cannot believe the lack of response to this thread.Microsoft bot IP is compromised and being used by non-bot UAs, possibly even has been hacked, and NO response. Amazing.
So how about it Microsoft? What is the answer?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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