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WebProWorld Members,
The white whale has been killed, the leprechaun
has been captured, the holy grail has been found
-- Microsoft and Yahoo have finally reached a partnership
deal. I'll let you ponder as to what those
things all have in common.
In case you hadn't already heard the news, Microsoft
and Yahoo have finally agreed on a deal
to combine forces. Which I'm hoping will form some
kind of mega search robot. Now that the deal is
done, here's what Steve Ballmer has to say about
the impact of it,
"Through this agreement with Yahoo!, we
will create more innovation in search, better value
for advertisers and real consumer choice in a market
currently dominated by a single company,"
said Ballmer. "Success in search requires
both innovation and scale. With our new Bing search
platform, we’ve created breakthrough innovation
and features. This agreement with Yahoo! will provide
the scale we need to deliver even more rapid advances
in relevancy and usefulness. Microsoft and Yahoo!
know there’s so much more that search could
be. This agreement gives us the scale and resources
to create the future of search."
The details of the deal are quite interesting, and
if you'd like to go through details here's
all of the key terms pertaining to the deal.
The first thing to note is that this is a partnership,
not a buyout. So there's quite a bit of give and
take going on. I think the biggest aspect of the
deal to keep an eye on is Microsoft is implementing
Bing's search algorithms on Yahoo's sites. Will
there be an improvement in search, or a decline?
When Microsoft gets it going, we're sure to find
out.
What are your thoughts now that Microsoft and Yahoo
have come to an agreement? Do the terms of the deal
seem fair in keeping with the definition of a 'partnership'?
The poll for the future of the rep system for WebProWorld
is still up. Let
your voice be heard.
The ideas presented in the WebProWorld newsletter
editor's note do not reflect the thoughts, and
ideas of the WebProWorld community.
| JohnnyV
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Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade-I got hacked through my Godaddy account
Shortly after I did the Wordpress automatic 2.8 upgrade, my blog got hacked by spammers. They flooded my source code with spam links.
When it was all said and done, I descovered that every one of my pages that were hosted at Godaddy were hacked with the same block of spam.
It cost me about $60 to get someone to clean the mess up.
Has anyone else had this problem with Godaddy?
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Google Discussion Forum
Could this be considered 'Bad Practice' under Google Quality Guidelines?
I look after a website which doesn't rank very high in SERPs (partly my fault) - also just found out about Google's PageRanks. Currently the main index page has a PR 3 (is this good or bad?? 3/10 is bad I suspect!). The area of business is in guided offroad motorbike tours in Morocco & South Africa.
One 'sort-of' competitor always appears in results pages when searching (as their key words and area of business are very similar) and usually on the 1st page. Looking deeper at their web site, they have ticked Google's 'Quality Links' box by using 4 different domain names which all link to each other, although the information provided is relevant to their business and they meet most - if not all - of Google's Design and content guidelines.
However, Google's Quality Guidelines say "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." There is (naturally) duplicate content on their sites pages, but most are for links to their respective - and relevant - other domain names and therefore their other areas of business. Their domain names contain search words like offroad, touring, motorbikes, 4x4, etc... but do offer genuine content reflecting the domain name.
I'm coming round to the way of thinking that this situation could be a moraly grey area, and saying to myself "if it works for them, it'll work for me".
So, before I go and register 3-4 other domain names, all of which will contain relevant key words and search words for the business, I'd like to hear opinions from others.
I can't post the domain names to further explain this situation, but will gladly clarify upon request.
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Search Engine Optimization Forum
Hot-Link Protection: Enable it or disable it? How does this relate to better SERP's?
This thread about Michael's custom 404 error page not working for images was getting a bit OT so I thought I would move the OT talk regarding Hot-Link Protection and hot-linking to a new thread. You can see some pros & cons I brought up here in the 4th post.
Here is some text from the thread:
From me:
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Some time ago I created an image that would display instead of the hot-linked-to image, it has my company name and URL on it. This required some lines of code in my htaccess file to be displayed in lieu of the HL'd image. That way at least for the stolen bandwidth I would get some "air time". But for some unknown reason, it stopped working and now the typical red X is being displayed again anywhere this HL'ing takes place. (I can show you that if interested).
The problem with allowing HL'ing I covered. But if you enable HL Protection in cPanel, that causes more problems. For one, any kind of visit from a SE image search will result in no images being displayed on the webpage. So you have to allow all the SE's access, no problem with all of them, except of course for google! They have hundreds of DC's/IP's that are often used instead of "images.google.com", so all of those IP's must also be entered in the htaccess file to allow them access. Also, even with "Allow direct requests (ie. entering the url to an image in your browser)" checked in cPanel's HL Protection area, that doesn't work. When someone clicks the actual URL link of any of my images anywhere on the net, the page will never load. So enabling HL Protection is not a really good option.
You say "They like the item and they use the picture as a link back to my site", how is the image a link and clickable? I would be most interested in knowing that. Since I now have unlimited bandwidth, I may disable HL Protection and use this "link back" you're talking about.
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Google Discussion Forum
Google webmaster tool - Preferred domain Setting
In google Webmaster Tool when i try to set preferred domain
with 2nd and 3rd option with "Display URL as....." i got
this message....... "[ ... Part of the process of setting
a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://abc.com/.
Please verify http://abc.com/
... ]"
But this URL is verified, without verification how can i do any activity with the related domain?
Why I am getting this message? Is anyone suggest me how can i set with the 2nd and 3rd option "Display URL as....." This problem is coming with the all domain when i want to do any changes with"Preferred domain.." in my knowledge after when google update webmaster tool with the new look..
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