autorave/google

From the page: "Matt Cutts recently produced a video explaining how Google looks at the alt attribute on an image tag and offers some good tips for how best to use them."

Graywolf rants about Google: "You are one of the most profitable companies in the world, stop looking for free handouts from people reporting links to you or not utilizing link advertising because it messes with your business model. You don't want people tinkering with factors in your link based algo, then stop relying so heavily on it."

From the page: "Google�s webmaster tools has a neat feature that lets you download your query and click statistics (once you have verified ownership of your site). The data you can get from there is quite comprehensive, but hard to break down for use in Excel."

Create a separate section for Googlebot. Do not rely on directives addressing all Web robots. Especially when you've a Googlebot section already, Google's crawler will ignore directives set under "all user agents" and process only the Googlebot section.

From the page: "Yesterday, GA made one of their new features, Site Search analysis, available to everyone with a GA account. I started to set it up for my customers, and realized that I didn�t know what choices to make. (They give you choices, but don�t tell you the implications.)

So I did some testing, and here is what I found."

From the page: "Look at the taglines on my blog. One of them says "Blog Reviews, Promotion, Issues, Monetization and More". The "More" part is just there to keep my blog from being classified into some particular niche. The rest of that tagline is all about promoting others. It doesn't matter if I'm promoting a blog or a business, it's what I do and it's my business how I do it. I am going to link to whomever, whenever and however I choose."

From the page: "You�re absolutely right when you say that such search engine nitpicking should not force you to throw nofollow crap on your links like confetti. From your and my point of view condomizing links is wrong, but sometimes it�s better to pragmatically comply to such policies in order to stay in the game."

From the page: "The average mom and pop site has no idea what a nofollow attribute is. The average mom and pop probably has no idea there�s even an issue with buying and selling a link. And in all honesty there�s no reason why they should. If someone approaches mom and pop to pay for a link in their sidebar or footer mom and pop might very well see it as a nice way to help with the costs of the site. Why would they think there�s anything wrong in accepting the deal and why should they know Google could come down on them for not adding a nofollow?

Google may have the right to do what they want, but should they punish honest people for their own mess. Let�s face it Google won�t penalize big name sites if they choose to sell links. Google needs those big name sites in their index. But Google will punish you and me and mom and pop for doing the same thing they�ll let large corporations get away with."