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. “

Website penalized due to spamming, – website penalty due to potential spam,

A webmasterworld.com guy reports that his site got banned for using link spam tactics,

he says

“My website got penalized by google. (Congratulations to me 🙂 )Things started
from this JAN (wen Google scheduled to upgrade its PR algo? I am not sure if its
true.) Traffic dropped. So did the earnings. Many people felt changes in their
rankings as well as earnings in this particular month. On te other hand, others
felt more income and traffic (obviously)
Reason of Penalty: I was using my
own automatic Link partnering tool and in few instances posted the link
partnering email on Forums and Blogs too. (accidently)
Google detected this
as “SPAMMING” and the traffic that I am getting on this very website (from
Google only) has decreased drastically.
However, other Search Engines seem
to be BLIND to this “SPAMMING” (Yes! I agree that in some sense this is spamming
what I did). Rather MSN and Yahoo have started sending more traffic.
Though,
the website is a quality website (quality content and all). But my greed to get
more links has put this website down. I will have to relaunch it now.
Furthermore, I will start experimenting and will be enhancing my Link
Partnering tool algorithms to detect these irrelevant websites and filtering out
Blogs and Forums.
Moral of the story: 1 – Google has applied some SERIOUS
SPAM combacting algorithms. Its growing more and more conscious about SPAM. So be
careful. 2 – Other Search Engines are still a lot away from what Google is doing.
I salute Google for their dedication and taking SPAM websites seriously. 3 –
Don’t post your Website links on Comments section of Blogs or forums. (which I
did accidently) 4 – Look out for other ways of SPAMMING that Google has become
resistant to. Kindly post them here for further evaluation by WebmasterWorld
community. “

Please be careful with google they are pretty strong in detecting link spam,

Evidence reveals MSN using editors to maintain quality in its search results,

Some of our referral logs show visits from this URLhttp://64.4.8.28/hrsv3/Judging.aspx , at first look it seems like a spam site but it is not the case,

We see a login screen when we visit that URL mshrs.search.msn-int.com/hrsv3/Login.aspx it looks like human review area for MSN search results,

Google has been doing human review using eval.google.com for a longtime,

What googleguy said about eval.google.com

“walkman, your comment illustrates a misconception that I’ve seen in a couple places. The system that was up at eval.google.com was a console to evaluate quality passively, not to tweak our results actively. But when Henk van Ess submitted his own blog to Slashdot, he asserted “Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google,” and that made it sound like people were reaching in via this console to tweak results directly, which just isn’t true at all.
I have serious reservations about Henk van Ess taking information from one of his own students (who presumably signed a non-disclosure agreement when the student agreed to help rate the quality of our results) and posting that information online. I also believe these web pages said things like “Google Proprietary and Confidential,” but it appears that the screenshots have been cropped to exclude that information. Those are the two things that really made me sad, not the “breaking news” the Google evaluates its own results quality. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Google evaluates the quality of its results in lots of ways–the fact is that every major search engine evaluates its relevance in many ways. “

I said
But when Henk van Ess submitted his own blog to Slashdot, he asserted “Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google,” and that made it sound like people were reaching in via this console to tweak results directly, which just isn’t true at all. and you replied
Google Guy, do I read between the lines that you think my postings are irrelevant and misleading? That would be a shame.
I don’t believe they’re irrelevant, but yes: I do believe that the assertions you’ve made are misleading. In my original post, I was replying to walkman, who asked “ok, so how do you know you’ve been manually hit by this?” which implies that walkman thought that eval.google.com was responsible for sites being hit. Likewise, I have a ton of respect for Tara Calashain at ResearchBuzz. But her post about your site says “Basically what Henk seems to have found is a part of Google that allows humans to tweak search results to ostensibly get rid of spam and let the most contextually-relevant search results rise to the top.” Again, Tara wonders whether your posts said that results were being directly tweaked. Then there are assertions from your site like “The Google testers are paid $10 – $20 for each hour they filter the results of Google.” “Filter” again makes it sound like an active process. And your self-submission to Slashdot (“Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google”), which also gives the impression that people used eval.google.com to change our search results.
So yes, I looked at the wording from when you submitted your own site to Slashdot, plus the use of active verbs such as “filter” on your own site, plus the comments of smart people such as Tara and walkman and how they interpreted what you wrote, and in my opinion your posts have been misleading. Again, this was not a console in which people could directly fine-tune, tweak, filter, or otherwise modify our search results. eval.google.com was for “eval,” i.e. passive evaluation.
Your follow-up question was “Why pay them for something if it has no effect om the index? Must be charity then.” Why are you surprised that we would pay people to rate search results? The job posting has been public, after all. We do provide ways for people to volunteer to help Google (e.g. see our translation console at https://services.google.com/tc/Welcome.html ), but to rate search results consistently and well takes time and training. I think it’s perfectly normal to pay people for their time.
When you quoted me on your site, you said “Google Guy: I’ve serious reservations about Henk van Ess” and in your post you said “Google’s spokesmen Google Guy, who I love to read, has serious reservations about me.” Just to be clear, that’s not accurate: I don’t have reservations about you personally, Henk. I think I stated clearly that I have serious reservations about two of your actions. I mentioned those two specific things in my first post, and I’ll reiterate them: you took information from one of your students, and you posted information that (in my opinion) was clearly proprietary/confidential. Regarding the first, I believe you wrote in a comment on your own site that this information came from a student of yours? Regarding the second, I’m quite surprised that you assert “I’m not aware of restrictions.” Besides the copyright symbol that you mentioned earlier, the very first picture you posted has a link “An NDA Reminder…” on the left in the Important Announcements section, where NDA stands for non-disclosure agreement. Are you honestly saying that if you had realized there were restrictions, you wouldn’t have done five blog posts (so far), posted screenshots, posted employee’s real names on the web without consulting them, and posted two training documents? In that case, I’ll ask politely. Henk, this information was for ratings training. It’s copyrighted, and I’m sure that the evaluation group considers it proprietary/confidential. I’d appreciate it if you would stop posting these documents.
By the way, I apologize in advance if this post comes across as strident. I hate he-said-she-said stuff, and normally I try not to post when I’m at ruffled at all. But I do think that things like posting an innocent employee’s name from internal training documents is rude and unnecessary. Henk, feel free to include this entry on your blog, but if you do, I’d appreciate if you’d quote the entire post.

then we have yahoo’s human review of search results, we can see referrals from corp.yahoo domain

now we have MSN human review of search, I think its mostly for quality control purpose? anyway good to see they are hand reviewing search, their results are spammed a lot by search engine spammers,