new Bigdaddy datacenters report huge increase in search result pages

comparing to the previous google the new improved googlebot which powers the bigdaddy datacenters are having huge increase in indexed data, Could this be because of new googlebot’s ( google’s crawler ) effective way of crawling sophisticated Javascript, flash, frames etc??

A search for *.* showed 9,660,000,000 now its showing 25,270,000,000 ( that’s more than 25 billion ) results,

A search for “the” showed 8,660,000,000 now its showing 22,010,000,000

Is new bigdaddy infrastructure datacenter a step ahead in google’s crawling technology??????

Have Sitemaps killed my site? – interesting thread in webmasterworld

An interesting thread in webmasterworld.com was discussing about a site’s pages which went URL only after signing up for google sitemaps, so did google sitemaps affect his site’s indexing of pages,

Webmasterworld.com member mrmister says

“I noticed that there are about 8 pages that are URL only. I’ve never seen this happen before. I did a standard Google search for my “green widgets” category page by searching for [green widgets]. It used to appear somewhere on page 1 but it was no longer there. I clicked to page 2 and I found my “history of green widgets” page sitting at the top of page 2. The “history of green widgets” page is the only subcategory page that is still listed as non-URL only. I checked my logs and Google has yet to crawl this page.
The site itself is a small site (about 80 pages). It’s been going in various guises for about 10 years and therefore has a fair amount of inbound links (mainly to internal pages rather than the home page). For most categories it gets to page 1 of the SERPs for two work keyphrases. I gave it a design overhaul about a year back to convert it from tag soup to clean valid HTML and CSS. I changed the linking structure and the URLs using 301s. I also improved the prominence of Adsense ads (that I’d been trailing for about a year previous) It weathered the change fine (some previous number 1 results dropped down a few places but nothing major).
There have been no major changes since then. I’ve added a few categories. It’s all been fine, every page has been indexed in a timely fashion.
However a week ago, I signed up to Google Sitemaps. I am wondering if this is connected in any way with the URL-only pages that I’m starting to see. “

So what could have caused this, Submitting to google sitemaps might have been a coincidence,

Vanessa Fox, Google Engineering reports on effect ways of moving domain names,

We had already given good suggestions on moving domains in our blog,

Nothing is more effective than getting information from a google employee, Matt cutts senior google engineer already discussed on 301 redirects ( http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/the-little-301-that-could )

Now vanessa fox reports in sitemaps blog on effective 301 redirect,

Here an extract from google sitemaps blog

“Recently, someone asked me about moving from one domain to another. He had read that Google recommends using a 301 redirect to let Googlebot know about the move, but he wasn’t sure if he should do that. He wondered if Googlebot would follow the 301 to the new site, see that it contained the same content as the pages already indexed from the old site, and think it was duplicate content (and therefore not index it). He wondered if a 302 redirect would be a better option. I told him that a 301 redirect was exactly what he should do. A 302 redirect tells Googlebot that the move is temporary and that Google should continue to index the old domain. A 301 redirect tells Googlebot that the move is permanent and that Google should start indexing the new domain instead. Googlebot won’t see the new site as duplicate content, but as moved content. And that’s exactly what someone who is changing domains wants. He also wondered how long it would take for the new site to show up in Google search results. He thought that a new site could take longer to index than new pages of an existing site. I told him that if he noticed that it took a while for a new site to be indexed, it was generally because it took Googlebot a while to learn about the new site. Googlebot learns about new pages to crawl by following links from other pages and from Sitemaps. If Googlebot already knows about a site, it generally finds out about new pages on that site quickly, since the site links to the new pages. I told him that by using a 301 to redirect Googlebot from the old domain to the new one and by submitting a Sitemap for the new domain, Googlebot could much more quickly learn about the new domain than it might otherwise. He could also let other sites that link to him know about the domain change so they could update their links.”

does redirects pass pagerank ?

Many have the question whether redirects pass google pagerank?

Answer:

It depends on the type of redirect handled, if its just a normal 302 redirect then it rarely passes pagerank, if the redirect is 301 then it will pass pagerank,

Passing of pagerank depends on the type of redirect used, if the redirects are hidden inside javascript its impossible for the link to pass pagerank, similarly if the links are from folders blocked by robots file then it wont pass pagerank,

Google reaching new heights – today’s market cap 127 billion USD,

Google has reached new heights, Its market capital is around 127 billion which is huge,

today’s stats,

GOOGLE (NasdaqNM:GOOG) Delayed quote data

Last Trade:
428.20
Trade Time:
2:17PM ET
Change:
5.29 (1.22%)
Prev Close:
433.49
Open:
429.39
Bid:
428.10 x 200
Ask:
428.20 x 200
1y Target Est:
476.31
Day’s Range:
425.00 – 433.28
52wk Range:
172.57 – 475.11
Volume:
6,620,322
Avg Vol (3m):
11,177,700
Market Cap:
126.55B
P/E (ttm):
94.86
EPS (ttm):
4.51
Div & Yield:
N/A (N/A)

seo blog team,

Getting banned from adsense for running clickbots,

A webmaster reports in a forum saying that his adsense account was closed because of fraudulent clicks on his site,

He said

“An ex-friend of mine recently created a both. This both visits a site, clicks on a ad, changes its IP and comes back to click again. I was wondering why my adsense revenue for that day shot up so dramatically. My google account has now been banned and revenue lost for several of my sites. Presumably there is no chance of getting my account reinstated? Additionally, whats to stop him running this both on sites he wants to get banned? I am very very unhappy with this guy. “

this is really unfortunate, we recommend everyone monitor their adsense account actively, if they see fraudulent clicks we recommend them to shutdown their ads temporarily, Google is very strict on this issue,

carcaserdotcom seocontest test page just checking to see how this site ranks in carcaserdotcom seocontest

Just checking to see how this site ranks for carcaserdotcom seocontest organized by carcasher.com , We don’t want to exchange links with sites running seocontest, so please don’t contact us for link exchange offers for carcaserdotcom seo contest,

1000s of sites will soon jump into this carcaserdotcom contest, good luck to all,

New Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Contest starting feb 1st 2006

carcasher.com is organizing a new seo contest where the keyword to be ranked is “carcasherdotcom seocontest “

carcasherdotcom seocontest is a weird keyword to be selected, rules of the contest,

SEO Promotion Rules:
No dirty SEO techniques! (read Google Webmaster Guidelines)SEO’s caught using any of the following: doorway pages, spam, hidden links, etc. WILL NOT qualify for the prize, and the prize will go to the next best SEO.
Every website HAS TO HAVE an email address published ON THAT SITE so that nobody else can claim your prizes.
We will pay prizes through PayPal, Money Order or CC, whichever applicable.
In order to qualify for the prize, a web page must include ONE of the following:
a) link to the rules of the contest http://www.carcasher.com/SEOContest/, ORb) link to the www.carcasher.com homepage, ORc) the following text (no link) We support CarCasher.Com

Great prizes include

$14,000, 42″ Plasma TV, Sony PSP, and iPod in prizesPLUS 12 months $12,000 SEO contract for 2007.

Got the challenge go for it at www.carcasher.com

Picasa now available in 25 different languages,

Picasa google’s image editing software is now available in 25 different languages,

Google blog reports on this here http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/picasa-x-25_30.html

new interface languages for picasa are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Tagalog, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Catalan, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Picasa is a great photo organizing software, it is a must download for people who want to organize their photo effectively,

Download picasa here picasa.google.com

Can google adsense and yahoo publisher network ads be published on same page,

Everybody who runs contextual ads on their site will have a doubt whether to publish adsense and YPN on same site / page,

Adsense advisor says adsense and YPN can be published on same site but not on same page,

this is what he said in webmasterworld.com

“YPN ads fall are considered competitive ads, as any other contextually targeted ads, or ads that mimic Google ads in appearance. For a more detailed description, see our policies page (http://google.com/adsense/) ‘Competitive ads and services’.
While you can use both AdSense and YPN on the same site, our program policies prohibit publishers from using them on the same page. “