Alright, you’ve got your bright idea and your website and you’re ready to roll. Now all you need is a first page Google ranking. Easy enough, right? Well, maybe if you’re selling fish sweaters, otherwise, there’s a lot of people with quite the head start.
Google Turns up Heat on Office
Not that long ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt would routinely deny that the company had any intention of using its Gmail, Google Docs and other services to compete directly with Microsoft’s Office suite. “We’re just playing around with some Web stuff,” he seemed to be saying. “Nothing important to see over here.”
Google Selling Top Organic Spot?
I’m not sure if this can be filed under “lawsuits filed purely for publicity” quite yet, but apparently the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) is suing Google for selling the #1 organic spot in their search results. Now, either someone is confused, or the rest of the SEO industry is seriously getting gypped.
Google Foundation Financially Well-To-Do
Compound interest can be an amazing thing – money just sort of grows out of whatever amount a person or company originally deposited. If, for example, an organization started out with $85 million, it could earn a fresh $4 million in a year’s time. And that appears to be exactly what the Google Foundation did.
Google Sky Mashup Takes Off
Google offers a lot of products and services, and out of all of them, I might have judged Sky to be least in need of an update. After all, the program’s practically brand new, and furthermore, the night sky seems like a pretty stable thing to a casual observer like me. A fresh mashup will update Sky every 15 minutes, however, and it’s starting to sound like a great idea.
Google Ready To Seduce Corporate World
The company’s Google Apps collection of productivity software will be the thin end of the wedge Google hopes to drive between corporations and their long-time love of Microsoft Office.
Google Checkout Lost Tracking Data
Google has begun to notify merchants using Google Checkout that Google Checkout pixel tracking was temporarily disabled from July 10 to July 18 due to an issue associated with system maintenance earlier in the month. Pixel tracking allows internet retailers to send Google Checkout conversion data to third parties. While disabled, the feature was unable to report conversions. Many online merchants have worked hard to integrate Google Checkout data with comparison shopping engines, affiliate networks, analytics vendors, third party bid management firms and others.
Google’s Game-Related Shame Deepens
A few weeks ago, we were able to run the headline “Yahoo Better Than Google At Unimportant Games.” Consider this a follow-up, only, to Mountain View’s dismay, you can substitute “Facebook” for “Yahoo” and leave everything else the same.
Biz-Dir Talks About Google De-Indexing
Murdok reporter Jason Miller spoke on the phone with Biz-Dir.co.uk owner David Eaves about his contention that Google de-indexed a large portion of his directory. He suggests that Google may have done this manually rather than algorithmically.
Read more on this in our article titled: "Is Google Hitting Directory Links?".
» Click here to listen to the audio of this interview, or read the transcript below. Visit Biz-Dir.co.uk here
Is Google Hitting Directory Links?
Algorithmic flux or selective penalization? Nobody’s sure and nobody that can answer is talking so far, but paid link directories have been plummeting in Google search results. Many are not ranking for their own business name, according to reports, even though webmasters have not received penalty notices.