Comments on: Go Slim Devices, go

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:22:06 +0000

Hi Matt – off topic but I need to ask you/Google a question. If there’s a form I should use instead please excuse me – I’ve scoured your site and Google but all I can find is the spam report. Does Google still have a general purpose contact form?

There are threads about this on WMW and WebWorkShop – lots of affected people. Here’s my example.

My site is .net. I don’t do link-building for it but it has around 60-70 UK IBLS from my UK hosted clients (with their permission!) and used to get a bit of exposure in local searches. However I note that the site: operator no longer shows my homepage when I search UK only results in Google UK (it’s there otherwise). I checked my client’s sites and out of 27 non .co.uk domains 20 have the same problem. None are MFA, none do reciprocal linking, none are affiliate. They are small UK business sites for small businesses.

So my questions are – are you aware that whatever geo-targeting is being tried out is dumping people’s home pages from your UK index? These pages contain the business location and some of the domains have a town name in them. They are all registered to UK addresses /businesses through a UK registrar!

I’m worried that this is going to continue to be a problem, so could you also indicate if it’s no longer wise to have anything other than a .co.uk domain if you want to feature in UK search. Most of these domains were bought 4 or more years ago when .coms were more in use but most clients also have the .co.uk. Would they be wise to switch?

By: Harith

Harith — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:30:42 +0000

Ok.

So I can see that neither Adam, Keith Cash, JLH nor I have guessed correctly where you were….this time.

Better luck next time, may be

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:19:09 +0000

What? I have a blog? Damn, I forgot.

Actually, there were a few logistical things at work I had to crank through, plus the bron-friggin-chitis was taking its sweet time leaving..

By: JLH

JLH — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:22:13 +0000

“Have I forgot to mention any other possibility(?)”

Maybe he went supplemental? We’ll see him update again in about a year. [tic]

By: Keith Cash

Keith Cash — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:43:15 +0000

What about Just taking a break??

You know enjoying the season change outside and doing nothing, I repeat NOTHING!

By: The Adam That Doesn't Belong To Matt

The Adam That Doesn't Belong To Matt — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:56:52 +0000

Yeah, you did. You forget “Harith is stalking him in all of those places and he needed a new one to hide from him in.”

By: Harith

Harith — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:28:26 +0000

So where is Mr. Cutts?

Maybe:

– Matt is visiting his parents in Kentuky

– Matt is visiting the in-laws in Nebraska

– Matt is in bed surrounded by: BRON-FRIGGIN-CHITIS, Emmy and Ozzie

– Matt is at the Plex tinkering around with 72.14.207.104

Have I forgot to mention any other possibility

By: Maurice

Maurice — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:48:18 +0000

Its a bit of topic sory Matt

Imagine my surprise when reading the leader on the register about the stitch up over the HP board (thge CEO geting promoted when he should have resigned)

I saw a very dubious adsense add on the page take a look at this blog post where you can see the image

http://hauntingthunder.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/adsense-abuse/

i have reported it but i thought id post it here.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:50:52 +0000

I tend to agree with jonathan Pardora rocks!!

By: Other Matt

Other Matt — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:49:00 +0000

Even better, match up your Squeezebox with the Infrant ReadyNAS NV. It’s a great raid array of disks that runs Linux and SlimServer too. Brilliant!!!