Click Sentry Blog http://www.clicksentry.com/blog ClickSentry SEO, Link Building, Marketing and Super Duper Blog. Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:20:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 en All Quiet on the SEO Blog Front http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:20:30 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Linking Blogging Google Yahoo! http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/ Usually, posting on the SEO blogs goes in spurts. As many of us have a few minutes, we post something of substance or something that is completely meaningless. Lately, it seems pretty quiet around the SEO neighborhood and I think I know why. It is time for many of the people in the search marketing world to get back to the basics. For a long time now, it has been too easy to manipulate the search engines like Google and Yahoo with artificial link schemes like those found at DigitalPoint and LinkVault, among others. Many people have stopped doing what they know they should be becuase these tools have made things too easy. I think a lot of people out there are taking inventory and cleaning up their shops a bit these days and getting back to brass tacks. What the hell am I doing here?

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/feed/ Google Pulls in the Reins http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-pulls-in-the-reins/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-pulls-in-the-reins/#comments Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:10:33 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Linking Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-pulls-in-the-reins/ I am sure I am not the only one who thinks this, but I believe they have made the decision to get proactive when it comes to link distribution networks like the ones found at Digitalpoint as well as at LinkVault. These networks have made it too easy for every little kid with a webserver and a basic knowledge of PHP to generate hundreds and thousands of backlinks to any website. Maybe Google has decided that they cannot handle this problem from their side or maybe it is just easier to just crush it by penalizing sites with the tracking images used. In any event, I think this is a good thing. I have seen a number of sites that are completely unrelated to these link networks improve their rankings steadily over the past two weeks…and I have done nothing to help them with regards to SEO or link building. This of course is not proof of anything, but all of the pieces appear to be coming together to show that this may be the case.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-pulls-in-the-reins/feed/ Google Maps Italy http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-maps-italy/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-maps-italy/#comments Tue, 02 May 2006 15:50:40 +0000 jason Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-maps-italy/ I was looking for something like this a few months ago when I was knee deep in honeymoon planning. I guess I should have emailed the Google Maps team and asked them if I could beta test their European maps system. Anyway, if you are looking for how to get from point A to point B in Italy, now you can do it with Google Maps Italy.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-maps-italy/feed/ Google Recruits UK Geeks http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks-2/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks-2/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:10:57 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks-2/ InternetGoogle is looking for some geeks on the other side of the pond. So, if you think you have what it takes, you should hit up Vint Cert when he is in town.

Vint Cerf will be visiting universities around the country in support of Google’s recruitment drive. Cerf was hired by Google in September as an Internet evangelist.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks-2/feed/ Google Recruits UK Geeks http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:25:17 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/ukgoogleGoogle is looking for some geeks on the other side of the pond. So, if you think you have what it takes, you should hit up Vint Cert when he is in town.

Vint Cerf will be visiting universities around the country in support of Google’s recruitment drive. Cerf was hired by Google in September as an Internet evangelist.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-recruits-uk-geeks/feed/ Google Moving Search Records Out of China http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-moving-search-records-out-of-china/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-moving-search-records-out-of-china/#comments Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:20:18 +0000 jason SEO News Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-moving-search-records-out-of-china/ I guess Google didn’t like the taste left in their mouthes after the US government requested search data from them recently. Google has announced that they will be moving their search records from the Chinese Google site (Google.cn) to prevent China’s government from accessing the data without Google’s consent. Google is working to abide by China’s laws and operate inside the Chinese borders. Clearly they understand that means that whatever China says, goes.

In an effort to protect users of its Google.cn Web site, Google is moving search records out of China and into the United States, a company executive said this week. Google.cn is a version of the company’s search engine that is hosted in China and adheres to Chinese censorship laws. It was launched in January. The Mountain View, California, company has decided to store search records from the site outside that country, however, in order to prevent China’s government from accessing the data without Google’s consent, said Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, speaking at a panel discussion at Santa Clara University earlier this week. “We didn’t want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government,” he said.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/google-moving-search-records-out-of-china/feed/ Do SEOs Really SEO? http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/do-seos-really-seo/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/do-seos-really-seo/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:10:55 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/do-seos-really-seo/ I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately and to be honest, it can make your head spin. I am “fortunate” enough to know some people that, let’s just say, are on the cutting edge of programming and web based technologies.  What this has made me realize is that just about every system out there today is relatively easy to manipulate. Of course, I never really thought about using these tactics much before I met them and started talking to them.   Of course, it makes me wonder about the *SEO industry* a bit.  For instance, what percentage of *SEOs* are really able to understand this type of stuff? Of that number, how many are using these tactics to improve their clients’ rankings?

What I think is that most of the *SEO* community doesn’t know much more than what they get from the SEO forums and chat rooms.  That translates into trading links, buying links, soliciting links from other sites.  These are all good tactics, but they are unlikely to get you to the top of a competitive market.  I don’t know what I am trying to say I guess. Just thinking out loud a bit.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/do-seos-really-seo/feed/ SEO Cool Stuff This Week http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/seo-cool-stuff-this-week/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/seo-cool-stuff-this-week/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:40:06 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Google http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/seo-cool-stuff-this-week/ Since I can’t seem to get over here to post every day, I figured I would post on some of the cool webmaster and SEO related stuff that I came across this week:

Rand commented on some of the “more important” elements of the recently released Google Web Authoring Statistics Study conducted by the hackers over at the Googleplex.

I listened to the weekly podcast by Jeremy and Tim who did a great interview with Kevin Burton of TailRank.com. TailRank is a pretty cool RSS aggregation “filter” that tries to cut down on the noise associated with a given story in the blogosphere…bringing you the best “signal.” If you are into blogging, RSS and/or Web2.0 then you will want to listen to the interview and add Kevin’s feed to your RSS aggregator. Probably one of the best shows (podcasts), as far as content and moderation goes, that I have listened to.

Graywolf deserves some props for his full on assault this week on his Graywolf’s SEO Blog. He finished up his three part “Maximizing Profits with Website Design and Layout” series this week with part 2 and part 3. And, he wrapped it all up with some SEO leftovers today….which I thought tasted great. This is how you get links from making great blog posts/create great content folks.

Jim Boykin pointed out some high-quality (read: useful) SEO tools that are free-to-use at Aaron Wall’s SEO tools site. Good stuff there. I wish I had time to use them. :)

Last, but not least, Philipp Lenssen has been busy over at Google Blogoscoped this week, with a number of great posts. Google’s PR team has been busy this week with the request from the U.S. government and the China censorship issues.

-JG

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