Cindy McCaffrey plans to leave google marketing Job,

It seems cindy mccaffery has planned to leave google, She has been a core person in google’s marketing department and it is a big lose for google,

Silicon beat says, www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2004/12/19/mccaffrey_leaving_google.html

Google’s vice president of corporate marketing, is leaving the technology

company, the first top executive to depart after the IPO. McCaffrey has been

chugging away at the P.R. business for 20 years, including gigs at Apple

Computer, E*TRADE and the 3DO Company. And that’s after starting a career as a

journalist. She’s been at Google more than five years, which means that,

post-IPO, she can comfortably go off and do nothing. And that’s apparently what

she intends to do for now

Does google lag / sandbox algorithm really exist or it is just a type of spam filter and the new site penalty is just a myth?/?

Check the top 10 results for tsunami,

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

this site tsunamihelp.blogspot.com is completely new but ranking in top 3 for the keyword tsunami, It is breaking our head what causes some new sites / new pages with sudden boost in backlinks not appearing in the top results of google,

Has been seeing lot of theories across various forums but none of them give real quality targeted information we need,

So what causes this sandboxing of sites, will it ever get released ?????

Google top 10 queries for the year 2004

Google also has revealed their top 10 queries for 2004,

Here is the list,

Popular Queries2004

1. britney spears

2. paris hilton

3. christina aguilera

4. pamela anderson

5. chat

6. games

7. carmen electra

8. orlando bloom

9. harry potter

10. mp3

Source: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Yahoo reveals top searches of 2004, yahoo’s 2004 list of top search engine queries

Yahoo has made available the list of top queries performed in their search engine in the year 2004,

Check it out here,

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/

Top 10 Search Terms

1.American Idol

2.Paris Hilton

3.Jessica Simpson

4.Britney Spears

5.Harry Potter

6.WWE

7.Usher

8.NASCAR

9.NBA

10.NFL

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Google toolbar pagerank update on Jan 1 2005

Google has updated its toolbar pagerank after a long wait of 3 months, this is evident that google has moved into quarterly pagerank updates on their toolbar,

Anyway there is something to be happy about, Check your updated pagerank by downloading google toolbar is you dont have one,

We updated our Pagerank 10 sites list check it out here

An interesting checklist of why a site could be dropped from google’ index posted in webmasterworld.com

An interesting post in webmasterworld.com describes how sites were dropped from google’s index, whether it is because of a penalty or because of google’s own problem, this checklist describes well,

One of the most common themes of posting here in WW starts something like:
“Last night, my site disappeared…”
“Losing” a site can be a painful and
frustrating experience. To help ease the pain, perhaps a starting list of
potential issues might help. I’ll probably miss more than I’m catching with this
list, but at least it’s a start.
Do a site search at the SE in question to
determine if all of some of your pages are gone. Some think that their site has
vanished, when in fact an algo update or tweak has occured causing their pages
to drop. Or, individual pages have been filtered or penalized, but not entire
sites:
If *all* of your pages are gone (search on URL’s to check that), then
perhaps: • your server was down at an inopportune time. • you have a robots.txt
problem. • you’ve been removed from the index based on a perception of bad
behavior (not good).
If only some pages are gone, or if your pages have
simply dropped badly in the SERP’s, then perhaps: • you have some other
technical issue not noted above (e.g., badly executed redirects), • the algo
changed, • you’ve done something recently that the SE did not like, or, • the
algo changed and something that was previously “OK” is now being filtered or
penalized.
Here are some specific things to look at:
Start with the
basics: Was your server down recently? Server failure is always a good item to
check off your list when searching for problems. No need to start remaking your
site if all that happened was a temporary problem.
Are you using a
robots.txt file, and if so, has it changed. , Is the syntax correct? There are a
variety of potential problems that can be caused by improper code in robots.txt
files, or placement of the robots.txt file in the wrong location. Search WW on
this topic if you’re not sure what you’re doing. Use the WW Server Header
Checker. At worst, a robots.txt file can tell a SE to go away, and you really
don’t want that. 😉
Have you more aggressively optimized recently? Internal
changes that can lead to potential problems include: • More aggressive kw
optimization, e.g., changes to Titles, META’s, tags, placement and
density of kw’s, etc. • Link structure changes, and especially link text
changes. Updates to link text or structure, if done for optimization reasons,
can push a site into filter/penalty territory. Look in particular for overuse of
kw’s.
Have you added redirects? The SE’s *can* sometimes become confused by
redirects. Assuming that the changes are intended to be permanent, use 301’s,
not 302’s. Be especially careful about large scale changes. If done properly,
redirects are important tools. Done without proper knowledge, they can lead to
short term pain, often on the order of 1-6 months.
webmasterworld.com/forum3/8706.htm
Do you have a significant number of
interlinking sites? If ever there was a strategy that might be summed up as:
“Here today, gone tomorrow…” interlinking is it. You can succeed with this
strategy. But if you add too many sites or links to the mini-net you’re
creating, or interlink too aggressively, it can catch up to you. Penalties can
range from soft filters to complete manual removal in rare cases. Even with no
recent changes to your sites, the SE algo’s can change, making something that
squeaked by yesterday illegal today. webmasterworld.com/forum3/4618.htm
Are
you linking to sites in “bad” neighborhoods? If ever there was a strategy that
might be summed up as: “Gone today…” linking to “bad” sites is it. If you
think that you might be linking to the dark-side, lose that link instantly, if
not sooner.
webmasterworld.com/forum3/8053.htm
Could you be suffering from a
duplicate content penalty? Some practices or occurances that can cause problems
in this regard include: • Use of a single, site-wide template • Use of one
template across multiple sites • Competitors stealing or mirroring your content
• Redirects from an old domain to a new one • Over reliance on robots.txt files
to exclude bots from content areas you don’t want exposed. WebmasterWorld
Thread: webmasterworld.com/forum3/22494.htm
Are you cloaking? Some cloak merely to deliver “accurate” pictures of
sites/pages to the SE’s. Examples of this are sites with lots of graphics and
little text. But if you’re a mainly text based site that is delivering one set
of content to the SE’s while users are seeing something
less…umm…optimized…then there’s always the risk that you’ve been caught.
Are you using AdWords? This is pure speculation on the part of some seniors
here, but some do seem to firmly believe that if you place highly with an
Adwords listing, it might actually hurt your position in the SERP’s. Don’t shoot
me. I’m just the messenger.
IF OTOH, the only issue is that you’re not as
high in the rankings as you’d like, then a better place to start would be
Brett’s 26 Steps to 15K a Day.

Source: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/4584.htm

Search Google Ads – searching google’s sponsored links

it seems we can search google’s ad database, for example if we do any query in this URL;

www.google.com/sponsoredlinks it shows ads which google shows for adwords are adsense, seems like a good feature to know who are the advertisers for a particular keyword phrase and how many ads are displayed for a given keyword,

Iprospect cashes out for more than 40 million dollars

Iprospect one of the leading search engine marketing firm has cashed out, they are sold to Aegis a leading company who has been acquiring lots of quality companies lately,

News story in yahoo news,

Isobar Acquires iProspect to Create World’s Number One Search Engine Marketing Entity

Isobar, the global full service digital network created earlier this year by U.K. firm Aegis PLC, today announced it has acquired 100% of iProspect, the Original® Search Engine Marketing Firm. The news marks Isobar’s first acquisition in the U.S. market, and the 7th for Isobar globally in the past six months.

Source: biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041222/sfw009_1.html

How much they were cashed out information here

Aegis has acquired US internet search marketing agency iProspect.com in a deal that could net the founders of the firm $50m (£26m).

Aegis will pay an initial £16.7m with a further £9.4m deferred and payable over two years, subject to performance-related targets. IProspect will become part of Aegis Group’s digital media network Isobar, which has made a number of acquisitions over in the past six months, including Korean digital agency Agency W and Australian digital agency One Digital. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, iProspect is one of the pioneers in search engine marketing. Earlier this year, it was named among the top 50 fastest-growing companies by Inc.

Source: www.revolutionmagazine.com/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=ViewNewsArticle&ID=231352

Google Adwords displaying all the ads

we can adjust the number of results displayed per page Inorder to display all the ads on one screen, Lately there was a discussion in webmasterworld where a user reported he say almost 60 ads, some say it is a common phenomenon when google results are set to 50 results or 100 results per page,

Discussion here, www.webmasterworld.com/forum81/4107.htm