Comments on: Feedback: Webmaster services in 2006?

By: Elmar

Elmar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:39:36 +0000

@survey what about new websites launched every day?

By: Survey

Survey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:26:23 +0000

Hei there,

The seo game has changed, not because of radically changed algorithm, but because of competition.Yes search engines constantly changed their algorith, but that is not significant.I would say the main parts of the algotithm is the same.

But the main problrm is competition.Many people want to have high ranking, and so they try many tricks.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:44:00 +0000

I’m dying to get my hands on a tool that shows penalties to my websites. Just think about how many webmasters out there that really think their websites are following Google’s guidelines 100% (Like me) and yet my blogs keep getting penalized left and right. My last one which got penalized this past Sunday is http:/wherewearebound.typepad.com and this site has been around for years. I recently decided to blog about issues other than political stuff and before you know it the site is penalized. I have another blog that was penalized 3 times in a 3 week period for one day each time then it went back to normal until the 3rd time in which it never came back. A tool like this would be great.

My own theory is that other webmasters get upset that our websites are out-ranking them so they file a “spam report” and submit our site in the report. The above mentioned site is not doing anything wrong. No duplicate content, no link buying or selling, quality content to the readers. I’d love to know why I keep getting hit by Google so a tool like this would be great especially since I depend on adsense income to offset some of my bills.

Thanks Matt

By: Link

Link — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:20:51 +0000

1) Allow us to use adsense funds to fund adwords.
2) Make the guidelines clear and easy to understand. Looks like your guidelines are written by some business analyst writing in legaleese. You can even call it Google Guidelines for dummies.
3) Penalize checker like everyone else suggested. If webmasters start to figure out the algorithm, new black hat techniques and the like; Google will have to counter and make search results smarter. Are you up for the challenge?
4) Some stuff I dont have suggestions for… Can I just list problems?
a) I cant make a site entirly out of flash. Although I can make some really appealing eye-candy websites, I hold back because the spiders cant follow my navigation or read my text. Search engines make things easy to find, but also make them boring. Maybe there is a work-around that I dont know about by using sitemaps or something. Sorry if this one seems off-topic, but it would make my life easier as a web designer.

I have more suggestions, a little late here. Maybe another day.

By: MickW

MickW — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:10:19 +0000

Matt,

Weird one here…and don’t think I haven’t tried to find the answer to this before turning to Guru’s like your good self.. ohh my ego is miles too big to immediately accept I don’t know

Anyway back to the issue. I am sure that somehow our site is being penalised. The main reason I am almost sure of this is that I have looked to see of ALL the indexable pages we have which are actually IN the indices of the 3 major engines… and which are NOT. At the moment I’m doing this daily.

Every day we end up with about 800 pages removed from the indices and a fresh 800 or so which had previously been removed added. A day or two later the newly added pages are kicked out of the index and again the previously crawled and kicked pages are reincluded! Weird beyond belief and its been going on as long as I’ve worked here now!

I prefer if you were going to comment you didn’t included the actual URL of our site. Strange thisng here is that each day to keep abreast of new prices and updates made to descriptions and inventory listings we release a whole fresh copy of the site which is literally ‘thousands’ of new html pages replacing the old ones. We basically regenerate the HTML’s.

I have NO idea at this point what the engines are doing. But any tool they could give to simply say something like “Your pages ‘http://www.xyz.com/page/thispagehere.html had been removed – Reason : Copy duplication” or something like that. Now I understand that competitors might have a field day. But not if like Google Sitemaps you needed to verify your ‘attachement’ to the actual; site.

By: eddy

eddy — Sat, 27 May 2006 00:25:05 +0000

hay matt;

As a beginner building my first site, I have soo much trouble figuring out what’s up at google.

Greater transparency would make my life easier, whether penalty: or backlinks returns not truncated after only a few listed.

By: DavidZ

DavidZ — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:44:56 +0000

“I feel that google should start a team to handle reinclusion even for a fee”

i agree with the above my site was banned from google, although we know the reasons for the ban were justified, we have taken the necessary steps to meet google’s guidelines, we dont intend to ever negate our obligations to fulfill this from this day forth..

I have submitted the reinclusion forms, but not having anyone to speak to and the process itself, im told 3-4 months ?? as long as 6 months., Makes me very sad..

People would pay Google, $50 a call to ensure a rep works with them to reinclude their site.. I just need someone to speak to and better communication..

By: DaveC

DaveC — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:33:57 +0000

I would love to see GOogle Project, a project management package. I would also love to see Google calendar, cause I hate outlook and want to be fully online with all email etc.. I exclusively use gmail for my email now, but its annoying that i have to use outlook for my appointments etc….

By: Bruce Mewhinney

Bruce Mewhinney — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:28:56 +0000

Real-time “validation” of individual Web pages’ or even entire Web-sites’ indexing-quality (like HTML validators and robots.txt validation) by Google would be most useful, but not via email. Admittedly, any instant page-quality validation done without Google’s PageRank data and a page’s “popularity” factored in tells only part of the story, but it’s what most mainstream websters care about…. Have I overloaded the keywords, phrase repetition, or whatever within the page itself?

Even better would be if the real-time validator spidered outward from the tested page about 2 or 3 links’ worth, but only within the same domain (.com, .net, etc); that way, the topmost pages in a small Web-site can all get a quick, clean bill-of-health.

The Sitemaps features/console are very cool but too fussy and complex for basic use.

[Off-De-Topic signoff.... Your recent post about the desirability of decorative laptop-labelling reminds me of a fellow ex-boatbuilder who enhanced his black ThinkPad with hot-rod-style red, yellow, and blue flames. Linear polyurethane, just like the ocean racers. Used airbrush, also professional masking-tape to protect the keyboard and screen. Even de-greased the case before painting. But he forgot while spraying that opening the laptop during "sleep" mode usually also activates the intake FAN. Glossy red motherboard....]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:14:17 +0000

Hi Matt,
In terms of suggestions my site got an enquiry asking for advice on how to report their SEO company to Google for placing Black Hat SEO on their site. They were sking if you had a special page where they could report it. I told them to go to the Google normal spam page but they were looking for a specific page. Dont know how you verify that the SEO company they name did the work for them could get a bit iffy and turn into he said she said but seems a valid query for users to make.

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