Searching US specific results from other countries –

US results in other countries:

I know many of you have this question especially webmasters and siteowners from other countries doing business with US clients. For us though we have a sales office in CA, US our development team works from india but our 100% our client base is US. We need to target US customers only and for this we need to make sure have best results in US search engines.

Even if you search google.com from here you won’t have the best results delivered there will be some geotargeting jumping in based on your IP. So to tackle that we need to find other ways. I can list few of the ways we know of and which we use internally use to check our sites as well as our client sites from US pages.

1. Adding &gl=us to the URL works sometimes. But even if you add this if your IP of your internet service provider is country specific then the result still wont be as accurate as it is served in the US states. SO this will kind of work and worth the try.

2. Using the Google adwords https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool this too works sometimes but it delivers results the same way as the above option it also detects the IP and doesnt give the best results and results are not always similar to the US results.

3. A VPN with US Ip works better we have some VPN connects with some client’s offices and we get US Ip where we browse to get exact US based results.

4. Last but not the least the best option infact the option we most use is a US proxy. There are some very good US proxies like

http://www.megaproxy.com/
http://www.hidemyass.com/
http://www.clickgo.info/
http://www.fastwebproxy.net/ etc
They are mostly US proxies and what they see in US is what you see in your country. I recommend using one of those proxies to check results in US,

Britney still leads in searches – beats Jolie and paris

Britney the troubled celebrity mother still leads 2007 celebrity searches compared with Angelina Jolie and Paris Hilton. Google trends a cool new tool shows graphics of the 3 celebrities
how often they were searched around the world for the past 4 years

Google Trends , Google trends comparision software

Tried printing search result pages,

How many of you tried printing your yahoo, MSN and google search results. We always do it for research purposes in our company. Recently a bug with yahoo search was preventing us from printing their search results. Not sure whether it was a bug or a deliberate attempt to stop printing their results.
Things look of now we are able to print everything fine now,

Does google and yahoo regional search engines use different algorithm than the primary .com search engines. seo blog tip of the day dec 8th 2007

Does google and yahoo regional search engines use different algorithm than the primary .com search engines.
Answer to this is ofcourse yes. All geotargeting search engines needs to operate on a different algorithm than the .com ones to identify potential regional links and regional domains. Various factors affect geotargeted rankings.
Domains hosted, backlinks, domain name itself, visitor tracking, trust network in geotargeted domains, topical directories etc.
So if you want to rank for regional domains be prepared to do something different don’t use same .com and .regional extension domains for 2 different rankings.

A joint venture by search engines for sitemap submission

Google, Yahoo and msn together provide one sitemap protocol (http://www.sitemaps.org/) where you could submit your site pages to major search engines jointly in one submission.

Interesting articles on web spam and search engine spam,

Everyone will be interested to know how search engines combat spam, here are 2 papers from stanford which explains perfectly how search engines combat spam,

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/spam.pdf

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/spam1.pdf

One article says everything done to improve ranking is spam, we disagree with it,

Article says

What is web spam?
Spamming = any deliberate action
solely in order to boost a web page’s
position in search engine results,
incommensurate with page’s real value
Spam = web pages that are the result of
spamming
This is a very broad definition
SEO industry might disagree!
SEO = search engine optimization
Approximately 10-15% of web pages
are spam

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??????

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,

danny sullivan? – Who is danny sullivan? Editor of Search Engine Watch.

Who is danny sullivan?

Danny Sullivan is the Managing Editor of the famous Search Engine Watch. A well known authority in search engines, he is widely known as the “Search Engine Guru”. His creativity and knowledge in writing articles is indescribable. Danny is also a well known speaker in conferences and is known for his eloquence.
Danny worked in news papers like LA Times and Orange County Register and then turned his concentration over to web. Danny Sullivan started his career in the web world in 1995, managing a web marketing company which later became Search Engine Watch.
Danny strongly believes search engine marketing has a future. In a conference he spoke, Dannie compared search engines to a ‘reverse broadcast network’.
Danny successfully provide website consulting services, from site conception to internet publicity. He also authors the monthly search engine report newsletter. In the search engine strategies conferences focusing on search engine marketing issues, he writes expert session content.
Danny Sullivan is climbing heights in the field of search engine marketing, alert of changes in trend and making newer innovations in the field.

tim mayer – who is tim mayer? the search king of yahoo.

who is tim mayer?

Behind the product direction of Yahoo! Search technology is the brilliant brain of Tim Mayer. He has over 10 years of search experience in Yahoo added to his achievements in Overture, Inktomi, FAST Search & Transfer.
Tim was the Project manager of the SAEGIS and NameStake search platforms. A literature Graduate with an M.B.A. from Babson College he has been successful in all his career endeavors.
Tim spent two years in product management and product marketing in the web search division at Inktomi. Then Tim became the Vice President and General Manager of the FAST Web Search division.
At overture he successfully did production direction and also managed the major web search affiliate partner relationships.