matt cutts says widgets are ok as long as its not abused

In a recent interview with Eric, Matt Cutts Google’s Web Spam Head has agreed that widgets are a type of link bait if used in a proper way.

We at Search Engine Genie provide PageRank Button a useful Widget where users don’t need to have Google toolbar to view the PageRank of your page. They can just view the PageRank from the button we provide you. Our PageRank Button users our custom coding to query Google’s Database to query for PageRank of a page and will display it for you on your website. We are in process of developing more widgets especially a widget which will query Google, Yahoo, MSN for Number of pages indexed, number of back links and will display it on your page. It will be released in a week.

Matt Cutts also re-iterated Widgets for the purpose of Spamming the search engines cannot be accepted. Some of them are like hiding links in a Web Counter or linking to any random site for the benefit of pushing the linking page’s rankings etc. Also links in non-embedded tag or no script when using widgets is spam. We at Search Engine Genie never resort to those type of tactics.

We already discussed this before many aggressive SEOs contact word press theme developers and insert their link as a credit back to their site. This is again an aggressive tactic and Matt Cutts has warned not to use such tactics to boost Search Engine Rankings.

You can expect lot more widgets from Search Engine Genie in coming future. Our programmers are working towards it. We want Search Engine Genie to be an useful hub webmasters and site owners.

Good Luck,
Search Engine Genie Team

Search Engine Genie May traffic reached 140,000 Uniques

We are proud to announce that we reached 140,000 Unique Visitors in the Month of May. May was the largest month for us and we are very happy that we became a good Hub for webmasters. It totalled 3,622,285 hits.

Our most favourite and the most visited area is our tools section. If you haven’t checked out that page please check it out here http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-tools.htm

Sergey plans his space invasion

2000 visitors a day from Stumbleupon

I don’t know how many sites have similar experience but this is the first time for our site. Stumbleupon.com a famous site similar to Digg.com is becoming increasingly popular these days.

Weekend traffic is usually slow for our site but this weekend was too good. On Saturday we got around 2000 visitors just from stumbleupon.com to our sandbox checker tool http://www.searchenginegenie.com/sandbox-checker.htm . This is a new record for us from a single site to a single page. Usually our traffic averages around 4500 Unique visitors per day. Stumbleupon.com traffic is almost 1/2 of our average traffic in a single day. We love stumble upon now. We have an extensive list of FREE AD free seo tools http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-tools.htm hope you too enjoy it.

Mcdar.net site suspended and the infamous datacenter watch tool gone

Mcdar.net was the first site to give Google datacenter comparision of results. We do have a similar tool like the way they had http://www.searchenginegenie.com/data/index.htm . For some reason mcdar.net tool is no longer available their site shows a suspension notice i am not sure what’s the reason whether its temporary or they are gone for ever.

Though they just left it unmaintained i am sure the site owner still runs the site active lets wait and see whether they will be back our not. Till that time use our tool and our tool is totally Ad free.

Digg effect – Effect of ranking on digg homepage

Digg killed my friends server. Few day’s back one of my friend’s article featured of Digg homepage. Within few minutes his server can’t withstand the massive traffic and was down for 5 hours. Is Digg homepage ranking worth anyone else had that experience?

Please share it here

Chris.

Danny Predicts HP Search Engines for the future

Danny Sullivan the owner and operator of Searchengineland.com and a well renowned expert in Search Engine industry has predicted future Search Engines will more rely on Human editing and decision making in Search results.

According to him Human Powered Search engines will be the future

Search 1.0 back in 1996 was concentrating on Onpage factors.

Search 2.0 ( Birth of Google ) around 1998 started off as a year for offpage Optimization

Search 3.0 2007 is the year for Universal results.

In future Search 4.0 will be more about Human editing in Search results to deliver best results.

Article is here http://searchengineland.com/080528-131813.php and its very interesting to read. Read the article and follow the link from it to Sphinn to discuss it.

Is TPR Penalty back – Google’s Toolbar Pagerank Reduction Seem to be visible again

It seems Google’s TPR penalty is back, Google around February this year brought a new type of penalty for sites that buy / Sell links. Its called the TPR penalty. In this type of penalty Google will reduce the pagerank of sites that are suspected of Buying or Selling Backlinks. It seems the penalty is back and more sites are affected.

A member has reported Pagerank reduction to his website forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=862890 here.

If you see TPR affecting your site please post here. We are doing some research on this and would love to hear feedback from others. We want to see whether TPR penalty affects only sites that Buy and Sell links or it affects innocent sites caught up inbetween. We have seen some sites loose TB PR without any link selling or buying that is why we need to ASK.

SEG

SEO comic strip – Incompetent webmaster whining about his rankings.

Can links from foreign sites hurt your Google US rankings?

I have seen more and more people getting worried about their US ranking affected just because they get links from sites hosted in foreign countries. I recommend there is nothing to worry because of this.

Google ofcourse geo-targeting buy they also have ways to relate links to sites regardless of where they come from. If your site is hosted in US and have enough US backlinks i wouldn’t worry about links from other sites.

Its very normal to get backlinks from other language sites especially if you run an information site. We get ton of backlinks from Japanese, swedish, german, spanish and lots and lots of other language sites still our rankings never moved. So i wouldn’t worry about it. Just keep improving your site and always lookout for natural backlinks it will be a hit.