Google Japan penalized by Google

Dear Reader,
Funny things happen in the cyberworld. Google Japan did a campaign paying for bloggers to link and blog nicely of them in order to boost the campaign. The result? Mother company Google penalized them by lowering the PageRank of Google Japan from 9 to 5.

The future of Google search – new functionality on its way

Dear Reader,
Lately Google has been experimenting with very Digg and Wikia-like new search functionality. The research, according to Techcrunch, has actually started already a year ago. There seems to be only a handful of lucky test drivers at the time being.
The new search under testing consist e.g. of the ability to rate search engine results with ‘thumb down’ [...]

Trusted content in the web 2.0 world…

Dear reader,
The more I think about the possibilities and current hype of the so-called “web 2.0” (or has the attention already turned to 3.0?), the more I fear for decrease in the amount of online quality content. Ask any SEO consultant, and they will still cite the old philosophy “content is king”. Yes, I’m fully [...]

7 Most important webmaster central blog entries

Dear Reader,
There’s a good summarizing blog entry by Susan Moskwa of the Official Google Webmaster Central blog that links to the seven most important webmaster central blog entries. Go read and enjoy!

Google video sitemaps

Dear reader,
As you may already know, Google has released Video Sitemaps along the widely used Google Sitemaps protocol. Actually the latter one probably shouldn’t be called Google Sitemaps, as it is a protocol also accepted by Yahoo! and Microsoft Live search engines.
As sitemaps are created to assist search engines in indexing your site content, the [...]