Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

What Happens to a Site’s SEO If The Sitemap is Removed

WebmasterWorld Members discuss the impact on SEO in Google if a sitemap is removed. WebmasterWorld

Google Search Requiring Cookies

Lately I’ve been unable to use Google Search without having cookies allowed. Not always, just occasionally. Today it seems to be consistent, no cookies, no clicking thru from the basic G search results page. WebmasterWorld

Germany Puts a Hold On Signing ACTA Agreement

Latvia also put off signing on Friday. Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have already delayed ratification. WebmasterWorld

Google Announces Search Changes for January 2012

Here’s the latest installment of our monthly series on “search quality highlights,” with 17 new quality improvements to read about for January. WebmasterWorld

Busting Google : The Justice Departments $500 Million Dollar Sting

“We simply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on.”… The government built its criminal case against Google using money, aliases and fake companies-tactics often used against drug cartels and other crime syndicates, according to interviews and court documents. Google agreed to pay a $ [...]

Google Webmaster Tools Diagnostic Centre Gets a Face Lift

“Logged in to Google Webmaster Tools this morning and saw that there has been an update to the Diagnostic Centre and the way the URLs and content is displayed on the results page.” WebmasterWorld

WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup January 19

WebmasterWorld’s weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) WebmasterWorld

Large Blue Arrows Showing On AdSense Ads On iPads

160×600, 300×250 and 336×280 all have these huge blue arrows. WebmasterWorld

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year to all WebmasterWorld Members around the World! WebmasterWorld

Bing Now Correcting and Offering Alternative Search Query

By way of comparison-checking, I stopped by bing and searched for the single word “swagrat”. First 10 results:Jimmy Swaggart (accompanied by list of related searces, all involving “swaggart”)swagat restaurantswagratswagratsuhagraat… and so on. Bottom of page says “Some results have been removed”. Those were probably the correctly spelled ones. WebmasterWorld