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. “

Google talk now open generation – the seo blog news,

Google talk, google’s mservice now offers open generation a new way to communicate with your friends using different IDs,
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-federation-for-google-talk.html

As google says you are allowed to interact with users with any ID,

on the help page

“We currently support open federation with any service provider that supports the industry standard XMPP protocol. This includes Earthlink, Gizmo Project, Tiscali, Netease, Chikka, MediaRing, and thousands of other ISPs, universities, corporations and individual users. “

What google says

“We’ve just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, you might be wondering. No, it has nothing to do with Star Trek. “Open federation” is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there’s nothing that prevents singular users from talking to Sprint users.”

The amazing Google Proxy – Google’s proxy helps safe surfing of the web,

its Amazing to see Google offering proxy services, Though this was a bit old news I just heard of it, it offers safe browsing, though it doesnt hide the IP but still it prevents system from potential viruses, spywares, trojans, adware, malware, scumwares etc,

http://www.google.com/gwt/n

SEO blog Team,

Online shoppers turn to Google for search – report

A new report shows Google being the leading search engine for online shopping search users,

Online shoppers picked Google Inc. as their search engine of choice this December while making their holiday Web purchases, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
Internet measurement firm Hitwise found that 11.1 percent of all December shopping-related visits originated with Google, a 28 percent jump over last year. But online auction giant eBay Inc was the biggest driver of traffic to shopping sites, generating more than 13 percent of retail traffic.
Search engines Yahoo! Search and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN Search drove 4.05 percent and 0.79 percent of retail visits, respectively.
Online retail giant Amazon.com, which is the second most visited online shopping site after eBay, generated only 0.75 percent of visits to other shopping retailers, Hitwise found.

For more read click here,

Google Earth now available for Macs

Google has always been focusing their products to windows users, Its true windows users are the major users which use their search results,

but google has drifted a bit and is now offering google earth mac users,

Google says

” “Available in beta for 10.4.x OS [that’s Tiger], Google Earth for Mac offers the same features as the PC version, such as animated driving directions, zoom in and out capabilities, 3D buildings view, and more. Google Earth Plus and Google Earth Pro are not yet available for Mac.”

Google earth download page has the following message,

“Download Google Earth – Mac or PC
Google Earth is a broadband, 3D application that not all computers can run.
Desktop computers older than 4 years old may not be able to run it.
Notebook computers older than 2 years old may not be able to run it. “

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Google update bigdaddy on and off, – Google’s upcoming update is being tested repeatedly,

Google’s upcoming update “Big Daddy” named by matt cutts of google is being tested, The test datacenter http://66.249.93.104/ comes online and goes offline repeatedly, As matt says these results are expected to be live in an other 2 weeks, so people check your rankings in this DC,

Matt cutts asking for feedback or various issues related to google,

Mattcutts of google has asked for feedback on various topics related to google,

He asks feedback on following issues,

Feedback: Webspam in 2006?
Feedback: Search quality in 2006?
Feedback: Products/features in 2006?
Feedback: Webmaster services in 2006?
Feedback: Communication/Goodwill in 2006?
Feedback: What did I miss?

Give your feedback in matts blog,

mattcutts.com/blog/

Review on the New Google Update – Big Daddy – New year special Bigdaddy

Review of New Google Update

Big Daddy:

Matt Google’s senior engineer has asked for feedback on the new results which were live on test datacenters 64.233.179.104 , 64.233.179.99 etc,

Matt cutts has asked semiofficially for feedback to their new index, Currently the new results are live on http://66.249.93.104 , http://66.249.93.99 etc, the 66.249 range is steady and is showing new results from 1st of January 2006, Even as matt said 64.233.179.104 will also be the test DC we don’t see that datacenter to be a steady one, Test results come and go in that particular DC,

Seeing the results on the test DC we see many issues fixed ,

1. Better Logical arrangement of sites in site: and domain only search,

Whether deliberately or by mistake google was unable to logically arrange site: search and domain only search, Homepage has been the most important page for many sites and google buried homepage when doing site:domain.com search or through domain only search, Now in the new datacenter we see a better logical arrangement of sites and pages in sites are listed in proper order compared to other Datacenters, Yahoo has been excellent in arranging site: search for a site, they show the best URL arrangement, Yahoo still shows best arrangement of pages for a site: search, Google has been known to hide many good information from end users, especially the link: search for a site, Google purposely shows less than 5% of links through link: search confusing many webmasters, so probably they do the same with site: search but atleast they have a fix for the homepage in the New big daddy datacenters’

2. Removal of URL only entries / URL only supplemental.

For a very long time Google has been showing URL only listing in SERPs( search engine result pages ) for some sites, Most possibly reasons for URL only listings / supplement results are duplicate pages across a site or across sites, pages which doesn’t have any link to it, Pages which are once crawl able but later not crawl able, pages which no longer exists, pages which were not crawled by google for a very long time possibly because of some sort of automated penalty, pages which was once crawled well but due to some web host problems is not crawlable by search engines, redirect URLs etc, It seems Google has fixed this major issue, URL only listings don’t add value to google’s index and good that it has been removed from the search results, Though we see some supplement pages hanging around here and there most of those pages seem to be caused by duplicate content across sites,

Recently google is very severe on duplicate contents especially syndicating articles, if there are lot of copies of same articles published across sites google makes some of the duplicate copies supplement results, Only these results seem to stick in the new DC other than that no supplement results are found,

For example this is the result of the main www.google.com DC
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Result in updated Datacenter New DC: 66.249.93.104 ( Verified )

Good indexing of pages for a site:

Recently google has been showing vague page counts for sites they indexed, For one site we work google has been showing 16,000 pages indexed where as the site itself doesnt have more than 1000 pages, But the new DC shows only 550 pages indexed which is a good sign, And all the 550 pages are unique pages without supplementals and we can expect them to rank soon, this is a very good improvement, we have seen the same accuracy across many sites we monitor, the new DC gives much better page counts,

Better URL canonicalization:

We see big improvement of google’s understanding of the www and non-www version, we have checked it across a lot of sites, for example for the search dmoz.org and www.dmoz.org google lists only one version of the site that is dmoz.org, before they show one version URL only and the other one real since it causes a lot of duplicate issues, we see the same fix across sites we monitor, Most of the results are now very good due to google handling redirects pretty well, that is a very good sign for a lot of sites, best advantage are IIS hosted sites which don’t have .htaccess site, lots of sites were unable to to 301 redirect to any one version of the URL, either www or non-www now they don’t have to do that google can understand that both URLs are same for a site,

Better handling of 302 redirects:

the new datacenter is doing well in handling sneaky 302 redirects which used to confuse googlebot a lot, there has been numorous discussions on this 302 redirect issue, google has been closely monitoring this problem and finally they came out with a good fix in the new big daddy update DCs,

For example check here,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nigerianspam

you can see the page of anybrowser.com having the same title as nigerianspam homepage

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=nigerianspam&btnG=Search

you can see the page of anybrowser.com having the same title as nigerianspam homepage is removed / missing

Pagerank of canonical problem URLs not fixed,

Google has not fixed the pagerank of sites with canonicalization, Hope it will be fixed in the coming dates,

some jump scripts which uses 302 redirects are not fixed,

hope it will improve soon, example:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=inurl:www.searchenginegenie.com+-site:www.searchenginegenie.com&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

Search Relevancy not accurate both in current results and new DC,

When we searched for DVD ( digital versatile disc ) in google we found google.co.uk ( google’s UK regional domain ) ranking in top 5, that is too bad google doesnt have anything to do with DVD, we hope it will be fixed soon,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dvd

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dvd

Possible duplication caused by new improved page indexing by google,

Google used to have 101 kb indexing limit for a page, now they relaxed that limit and they can crawl more than 500 kb, But it seems the 101 kb limitation index is still available and is visible often is search, we see it across our client sites, here is an example on wikepedia page:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22en.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

Not fixed in new datacenter too,

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22en.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

That is all for review now more review will follow soon,

SEO Blog Team,

matt cutts AKA googleguy – who is matt cutts ?

Matt Cutts is no new name in the online search engine marketing industry. Matt’s name is not limited to one specific field. His credits include a respectable job in Google, a blog that interests all kind of traffic, and a commendable fondness on insects!

Matt Cutts joined Google in January 2000 as a software engineer and got a fabulous chance to implement the first test of the AdWords user interface. Matt spent most of his time in the quality group of Google and eventually implemented Google’s SafeSearch, the family filter.
Matt has an M.S, from UNC-Chapel Hill, a double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.
The blog developed by matt has become a great resource for those fascinated by search engine news. It provides a channel of communication with webmasters also.

Matt used to post with the nickname Googleguy in searchenginewatch and webmasterworld, even now he continues to post with that IDwww.mattcutts.com/blog/

Do visitors from google images convert? very interesting thread discussion in webmasterworld.com,

There is an interesting thread in webmasterworld.com which discusses whether visitors from google images convert, In my point of view it all depends on the site we run, If the site is basically built around images and art it is best to feature in google image search,

this is an interesting posting from the same thread,

My site was basically built around a large photo gallery, so image search
is important to me, and generates a big share of my traffic.
But like a lot
of image galleries, the visitor may not be actually looking to buy anything.
Sometimes they are actually looking for images, prints, posters, etc, none of
which I sell.
But I do have ads on the site and a modest number of visitors
click the ads on any given image page.
What has worked well for me is
providing links to pages about stuff some percentage of visitors coming in
through image searches might be interested in, and putting ads on those pages
that they are more likely to click.
As a side note, because my images get
“borrowed” at a fairly high rate, I decided to label most of them with my url.
Those “borrowed” images appear to generate a pretty decent level of fairly
targeted traffic. Basically I turned the images themselves into ads for my site.
That might be harder to do with an image that comes from a product
description page, but it might be worth giving some thought as to how to make it
work in that situation.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/32479.htm