SearchBliss - Webmaster News

RSS Feed Homepage

Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4

Google Assigns Dollar Value to Search Results
2007-11-01 18:01:00
Google's ads are paid for; its search results, supposedly, are untainted by commercial concerns. But French blog Zorgloob landed itself a screenshot that calls Google's purity into question. It shows what Google search results look like to a member of Google's AdWords sales team. The picture raises more questions than it answers. For example, why are there dollar signs among so-called "natural" search results? And why does Google note whether a website in its search results belongs to an advertiser? Here's the image.The most charitable interpretation? Google's salespeople uses these results to identify potential customers. An AdWords sales rep probably looks up a product and these results indicate if each site turned up by Google's algorithmic search is also advertising with AdWords. If a site owner is not, the GG Score indicates how much that site owner would have to pay to get a sponsored link to appear near the top for that search term.But there's a darker possibility -- t...
More About: Google , Dollar , Results , Search , Doll

Where's Your Social Responsibility Google?
2007-10-29 18:04:00
By Kalena Jordan (c) 2007 Unless you've been living on a desert island with no Internet access, you've probably seen the recent blog fallout from Google 's latest crack down on alleged link brokers.This week it seems that Google made some type of manual Toolbar PageRank reduction on a handful of major blogs and portal sites like the Washington Post, ProBlogger, CopyBlogger and Forbes.com. Some of these sites had PageRank scores of 7 which have now dropped to 5, scores of 6 which have now dropped to 4 and so on. The blog buzz is that the sites have been singled out by Google as using their high PageRank scores to sell links and have been punished by the world's most popular search engine as a result. There is currently no proof of this and no public statement by Google acknowledging or denying the situation.A lot of bloggers have weighed in with commentary, observations and opinions. Every time I read a new post about the so called smack-down I imagine some Googlers at Mountain V...
More About: Social , Social responsibility

Microsoft Bets on Facebook Stake
2007-10-26 17:16:00
By ROBERT A. GUTH, VAUHINI VARA and KEVIN J. DELANEYOctober 25, 2007Microsoft Corp.'s $240 million investment in Facebook Inc. -- a three-year-old company with more promise than profit -- represents a huge bet that the online advertising boom will continue and the popular social networking site will be among the biggest beneficiaries.The software giant said yesterday that it will buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook, beating out Google Inc. after intense lobbying. The deal places a $15 billion valuation on the closely held Palo Alto, Calif., start-up. Facebook, which runs a site where people set up personal Web pages, expects to break even this year, on a cash-flow basis, with revenue of $150 million, according to people familiar with the company.The high valuation for Facebook is the latest sign of a renewed exuberance in Silicon Valley over Internet companies with lots of users -- even if those users haven't yet translated into much revenue -- and is reminiscent of the Internet bubble t...
More About: Bets

A New Kind of Spam
2007-10-23 20:34:00
October 2007By Brad Stone?Hello, this is an investor alert. Exit Only Incorporated has announced it is ready to announce its new, Text4Cars dot.com Web site. Already a huge success in Canada! We are expecting amazing results in the U.S.A.!?So says a computer-synthesized, British, female voice in what anti-spam researchers say is the first of a new wave of junk e-mail sure to cause headaches and earaches ? MP3 spam. Listen to the Spam MP3 Recordings (mp3)The e-mail security firm Proofpoint of Sunnyvale, Calif., and others caught these audio messages earlier this week in the dummy e-mail in-boxes, called honeypots, they use to trap new kinds of spam. The messages were blank but contained MP3 attachments of around 95 kilobytes ? around the size of a cellphone ring tone. The attachments were audio files all pumping up the same penny stock.This could be a virulent new form of unsolicited e-mail. Anti-spam companies like Proofpoint are not equipped to analyze the underlying audio and conv...

Details of Hijacked Ad Server Emerge
2007-10-22 19:13:00
October 21, 2007Hackers have hijacked a server operated by Internet advertising company 24/7 Real Media Inc. and are using it to seed legitimate Web sites with ads carrying attack code, Symantec Corp. said Friday. Windows users who visited sites with the attacking ads were infected if they browsed with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and had RealNetworks Inc.'s popular RealPlayer media player program installed on their PCs, Symantec said in an analysis written by three company researchers. This is the first time that malware has piggybacked on Internet ads served from a major advertising firm. The attack should be a warning to the Web, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc. "So much of the content we consume today comes from many syndication services," Storms said in an e-mail interview. "We trust that the content provided to us by Internet 'blue chips' is safe from malware. "This should be a wakeup call for sites which offer syn...
More About: Server , Details , Emerge , Serve

Semantic Web Technology, Twine
2007-10-20 19:53:00
By John MarkoffOne great way to start a fight in a crowded Silicon Valley cocktail party (and there are a lot of them these days) is to mention Web 3.0.There is no easy consensus about how to define what is meant by Web 3.0, but it is generally seen as a reference to the semantic Web. While it is not that much more precise a phrase, the semantic Web refers to technology to make using the Internet better by understanding the meaning of what people are doing, not just the way pages link to each other.Amid the new Silicon Valley gold rush under way, a lot of entrepreneurs seem to believe that to define something is to own it. And Web 3.0 seems like a great thing to own. So companies are bubbling up all over the place that claim to be building part of the semantic Web. Some are building voice recognition systems to use while browsing the Internet on a cell phone. Some want to challenge Google head on with a better search engine.The leading players include Danny Hillis, the founder of Me...
More About: Technology , Web 2 , Twine , Semantic Web

Google's Plan For Social Networking
2007-10-15 19:54:00
By Miguel HelftJust days ago, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft?s chief executive, was warning that social networking may be a fad. Eric E. Schmidt, Google?s chief executive, is far less dismissive.People don?t appreciate how many page views on the Internet are in social networks,? Mr. Schmidt told a group of reporters at the end of its Zeitgeist conference, a two-day gathering of an eclectic mix of Google partners, competitors, social activists and politicians. Social networks, he said, account for an ?enormous proportion? of Internet usage, he added. ?It is very real. It?s a very real phenomenon.? In a conversation that also included the company?s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mr. Schmidt did little to answer what was in the mind of several reporters: What is Google going to do to remedy its lack of success in social networking?Mr. Schmidt did say that over the next year, Google is planning to use information it has about the connections between its users, something techies call...
More About: Social Networking , Networking , Plan , Workin

Good News for Yahoo!
2007-10-11 17:05:00
When Yahoo ! makes news these days, it's usually not good news. But today there's a bright spot for the portal, which has managed to capture the No. 1 spot for internet news, ahead of rival Google.According to comScore, Yahoo reaches 50 million people per month between its news, finance and sports channels. Although TV still has a greater daily reach, portals like MSN, AOL and Yahoo are quickly becoming news heavyweights.Scott Moore, vice president of news and information, told Forbes.com that Yahoo has built its news empire by cutting deals with an array of news providers."Our news product is very leanly staffed," Moore said. "The MSNBC news room has 150 to 200 people. Yahoo News is a fraction of that. We have lower costs and that makes us more profitable."Despite the popularity of the news division, Yahoo executives continue to look for a solution to the company's struggles. Last week, Yahoo unveiled its next-generation search, which it hopes will rival Google's universal searc...
More About: Good News , Good , Yahoo!

Avoid Seasonal Search Ranking Wreckage
2007-10-09 19:17:00
By Aaron Shear , October 9, 2007Despite the infancy of the Internet, businesses routinely predict next year's Web traffic based on last year's growth. For example, if traffic grew at a similar rate in 2005 and 2006, you can assume the same trend will continue in 2007, right? Stop-and-Go Search TrafficMaybe not, especially if you're depending on a source of traffic that's beyond your control. We all know you can't control search engine traffic. That means traffic data for both organic and paid search listings could show volatility. Organic search and paid search are common sources of traffic growth, but what happens when there's a change in an algorithm that may drop you out of favor with the engines? You could suddenly lose all your traffic. Alternatively, if the quality scores given to your paid search campaigns change dramatically, can you adjust your site quickly enough to deal with the changes and get back up to speed? One can argue that paid search is an easy to regulate ...
More About: Seasonal , Ranking , Wreckage , Avoid

Online Ad Sales Rise to $10 Billion
2007-10-05 19:28:00
From ReutersOctober 5, 2007U.S. online advertising revenue surged to a new high of nearly $10 billion in the first half of the year, rising 27% from a year before, according to data released Thursday.The figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers underscore how quickly spending by marketers is shifting to the Internet, often at the expense of traditional media such as newspapers or radio."The torrid growth of interactive advertising revenue persists," bureau Chief Executive Randall Rothenberg said.Second-quarter revenue rose 25% from a year earlier, the data showed, to a quarterly record of $5.1 billion.One outgrowth of the boom is that media and technology companies are building up their online advertising businesses, partly through acquisitions.Among recent deals, Google Inc. agreed to pay $3.1 billion for ad serving and tracking company DoubleClick and Microsoft Corp. bought online marketer AQuantive Inc. for $6 billion.Jean-Philippe Courtois, head...
More About: Sales , Online , Rise , Billion

Class Action Against Target Website
2007-10-03 19:01:00
A federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer's Web site is inaccessible to the blind, according to court documents. Judge Marilyn Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California also rejected Target's motion for summary judgment in the case, according to the ruling filed October 2.According to the ruling, plaintiffs -- including the National Federation of the Blind -- claim Target.com violates federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination against the disabled."This is a tremendous step forward for blind people throughout the country who for too long have been denied equal access to the Internet economy," Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation for the Blind, said in a statement."All e-commerce businesses should take note of this decision and immediately take steps to open their doors to the blind," Maurer said."Target is committed to serving all of our ...
More About: Website , Action , Class

47 Ways to Build Website Trust
2007-09-30 17:44:00
47 Simple Ways to Build Trust in Your Website or BlogBy Miles Galliford (c) 2007If your website does not create a sense of trust in your visitors, all your efforts will be in vain. Your online business will never succeed. That's the bad news. The good news is that it is very easy to create and build trust in your online visitors. Below, I have listed all the techniques used by the hundreds of websites I have helped launch. If you have additional techniques, please add them to the list.As the old saying goes, you have only one chance to make a first impression. Building trust cannot be achieved by one single action. Trust is achieved by hundreds of little things you do throughout your website that, when taken together, give readers a sense of honesty, legitimacy and stability.The other bit of good news is that few website owners focus on building trust in the minds of their visitors. If you do it well, it can become a real and sustainable competitive advantage.Here are 47 simple act...

Google Invests (Again) in Mobile Social Networks
2007-09-29 17:17:00
Google Invests (Again) in Mobile Social Networks with Zingku AcquisitionBy Bryan Gardiner September 27, 2007Google made further inroads into the mobile space today with the acquisition of Zingku, a mobile social networking and communication platform, according to the Google Operating System blog. Zingku released a statement this afternoon saying that the two companies had entered into an agreement, although the precise terms were not spelled out. While no official statement has been released by Google, the company has since confirmed the acquisition, telling GOS "it is true that we acquired certain assets and technology of Zingku. We believe these assets can help build products and features tha will benefit our users, advertisers and publishers."The service lets you create and exchange things like invitations, 'mobile flyers' and pictures with friends over the phone, according to Zingku, and integrates your phone with a personalized web site so that you can more easily move such t...
More About: Google , Social Networks

PDF Bug Compromises Windows PCs
2007-09-24 15:38:00
Critical Zero-Day PDF Bug Compromises Windows PCsBy Lisa VaasA zero-day PDF vulnerability in Adobe's Acrobat Reader has come to light that can lead to Windows boxes getting taken over completely and invisibly, according to a security researcher. "All it takes is to open a [maliciously rigged] PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one," said researcher Petko D. Petkov, aka pdp, in a blog posting on Sept. 20.Petkov said he's closing the season with this highly critical flaw?a season that's included, at least in the past two weeks, his discovery of a slew of serious vulnerabilities in meta media files: a QuickTime flaw that can be used to hijack Firefox and Internet Explorer; a simple method of loading HTML files into Windows Media Player files; and an easy, six-step method by which to penetrate Second Life accounts with an IE bug.This PDF vulnerability is even worse than the QuickTime flaw, Petkov said. Mozilla provided a Firefox workaround for the QuickTime flaw earli...

The New Digg Features
2007-09-20 21:27:00
Today, Kevin Rose announced the release of new Digg features. What most people covered in the release were all the cool additions, but no one really talked about the small changes that have drastically affected submitters. Before I dig into these small changes that affected submitters, here is a quick recap of the new features that everyone is talking about:1. Digg is now made for big widescreen monitors. If you have a large monitor the site will now adjust the content so you can make use of your entire screen. 2. Each section on Digg now has a top 10 story listing on the right side. This area shows you the hottest 10 stories on Digg even if they are not on the homepage anymore. 3. Because the video section did so well when version 3 was launched, they decided to create a separate section for it. They are also using fancy javascript which allows you to now watch videos on Digg so you don't have to go to the actual source to watch them. 4. In the last few years the growth of pod...
More About: Features , Feat

Web Ad Blocking May Not Be (entirely) Legal
2007-09-14 18:08:00
By Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.comAdvertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001.Tomorrow's legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality and popularity, which has led legal experts surveyed this week by CNET News.com to speculate about when the first lawsuit will be filed. If ad-blockers become so common that they slice away at publishers' revenues, "I absolutely would expect to see litigation in this area," said John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Firefox's Adblock plug-in is probably the most prominent way to configure Web browsers not to display advertisements. It lets people block ads from individual Web sites such as Doubleclick.net or through ...
More About: Legal , Locking , Tire

Google Eyes Radical Changes to Search
2007-09-11 19:49:00
Google will soon make aggressive changes to its search results, with plans to increase the frequency of different types of links that include websites, video clips, images, news and map, according to a report in InfoWorld."We're still at the nascent stages," said Sundar Pichai, director of product management at Google. "Going forward, we'll be more aggressive in terms of when we trigger this."Google launched universal search in May in with the intent of providing more comprehensive search results to its users.Pichair spoke at Citigroup's Annual Global Technology Conference, where his colleague, Nicholas Fox, indicated that Google may soon break from its tradition of only running text ads along search results.Google could ultimately begin offering video and image ads alongside search results.Source: iMedia Connection
More About: Google , Eyes , Search , Radical , Googl

The Paid Links Debate
2007-09-07 19:09:00
The Paid Links Debate : Shades of GrayBy John Biundo , September 6, 2007The paid link debate continued at SES San Jose, and boy was it fun. Except it wasn't really a debate. More rhetoric was thrown around in several sessions than any three Obama/Clinton CNN/YouTube debates. This is a complex subject ? similar in my mind to understanding what constitutes fair marketing vs. anti-competitive practices in capitalist markets ? and it requires thorough and thoughtful analysis and debate. My goal with this series of articles is to outline the basic skeleton of the debate, in the hope that it will help propel a reasoned discussion forward. In this article, I try to tackle the foundation questions of definition and authority. Defining Paid LinksIt seems appropriate to begin by trying to understand exactly what a paid link is, since this seems to be the source of much angst and confusion. Many just want to know whether the marketing activities they're contemplating will be considered verbot...

Make Web Advertising Worth Watching
2007-09-04 17:08:00
How To Make Web-Advertising Worth Watching By Jerry Bader (c) 2007 It has become an article of faith that the Web is all about content; content is King on the Web as opposed to television where commercials are king. It seems that television networks just can't wrap their heads around the Internet and fit it into their standard commercial box. The traditional media's tactic of last resort, buying-up the competition and imposing its commercial will, just won't work with the Internet.Businesses that want to succeed on the Web must learn how to turn their commercial message into content as a seamless entertaining presentation. After years of website visitors first ignoring, then getting increasingly irritated with banner ads that blink, burp, and blast across their screens, there finally is a better way; advertising in the form of Web-videos that not only deliver a marketing message but are worth the time invested in watching.There is a lot of hype surrounding so-called viral videos. ...
More About: Web Advertising

George Reyes To Retire As Google CFO
2007-08-29 19:23:00
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that George Reyes has informed the company of his intention to retire as Chief Financial Officer. Reyes indicated that he will remain to assist in the search for a new CFO and to assure an orderly transition, which Google expects will occur by the end of the year. "I've known and admired George since our days together at Sun," said Google Chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt. "As Google's CFO, George successfully navigated our innovative IPO, the regulatory demands of Sarbanes-Oxley, and the management challenges of scaling a global finance organization. Though we fully appreciate his decision to step back from active management, we'll miss his thoughtfulness, good humor and wisdom.""Working at Google these past 5 and a half years has been an extraordinary ride," said George Reyes. "I'm honored and flattered to have been a part of this great management team. I know I'm leaving the company in good hands with a remarkable team of professionals...
More About: Google , Retire , Googl

Live Search Webmaster Portal
2007-08-24 20:35:00
Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private BetaShortly after that day in March when we had to take the "link:" operator offline, a small team was formed in Redmond. Its singular focus: to build the next-generation set of tools, content and resources for SEO professionals and webmasters (and get "link:" back in your hands). Creatively named Webmaster Portal (we?re really good at marketing), it will be a single, friendly place to find all tools and information relating to Live Search SEO. Initially we?ll support these scenarios:1. Troubleshooting tools to ensure MSNBot is effectively crawling and indexing your site 2. Sitemap creation, submission and ping tools 3. Statistics about your website 4. Consolidation of content submission resources 5. New content and community resourcesWhile we expect the tools to be available publicly in late Fall, we still have some polishing to do. In the meantime we?ve created a private beta program to let adventuresome folks get their ha...
More About: Live Search

Your Small Business Needs a Web Solution
2007-08-20 21:30:00
Why Your Small Business Needs a Web Solution Not a WebsiteBy Ilene Rosoff (c) 2007Raise your hand if you have a website for your small business. Now keep it raised if it is generating a significant volume of prospects or sales. Not holding your hand up anymore? You are not alone. Just a few years ago, small companies flocked to the web in droves, rushing to post their first website, anxious at the prospect of low-cost instant exposure. The web was going to be the great equalizer, putting small business on par with the big brand names, dangling the promise of visitors flocking to a company's site to purchase its wares or partake in its services. Sound familiar? Unfortunately, for most small businesses and organizations, the promise fell short and company sales did not skyrocket from an unending march of site visitors.So, what happened? For one, the web quickly became ultra competitive. Millions of sites sprang up in every business category making it virtually impossible to be found ...
More About: Small Business , Sine

Microsoft Reveals First Vista Gadget Bugs
2007-08-16 22:04:00
August 15, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. yesterday patched several Windows Vista gadgets, the first time it's had to fix the small applications, prompting one researcher to mark the date as the real "arrival of the next-generation of vulnerabilities."The three bugs detailed in one of the nine bulletins issued yesterday could let attackers inject their own malicious code into a victim's Vista-powered PC, said Microsoft. Three of Vista's bundled gadgets (the RSS, contacts and weather gadgets -- the small applications that sit on the desktop, usually pulling information from other programs or off the Web) are flawed. The vulnerabilities in the RSS and weather gadgets are particularly dangerous, since both are enabled by default in a standard Vista installation."If a user subscribed to a malicious RSS feed in the Feed Headlines Gadget or added a malicious contacts file in the Contacts Gadget or a user clicked on a malicious link in the Weather Gadget, an attacker could pote...
More About: Bugs

MySQL Changes Draw Ire
2007-08-12 19:39:00
MySQL AB has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community.Kaj Arno, MySQL vice president for community, announced in his blog this week that the company will no longer host the code for MySQL Enterprise Server in binary form on its public FTP servers, and will offer that version only to paying customers.The goal is to make it clearer that the enterprise edition is aimed at paying customers, who also receive support and other services, and that another version of the product, MySQL Community Server, is for developers who use the software for free, he said.The source code for MySQL Enterprise Server will still be freely available from the MySQL Bitkeeper repository, but not as a single, executable file, also known as a "tarball," which means it will take more time and effort to install.The change conforms with the terms of the open-...
More About: Mysql , Draw , Chang , Chan

Anti-Spam Software
2007-08-09 18:19:00
Tired of ALL THE SPAM!Here is a list of what I believe are the top anti-spam software products and services out there.1. McAffee Spam Killer Anti -Spam Software SpamKiller's "self-learning" technology for identifying and blocking future spam works well and this anti-spam software has some added features that I really like, such as a Dictionary Attack filter that defeats name-generating software, One-Click Block and the ability to filter email from multiple accounts. And although it integrates fully with Outlook, it also works with other (PC) email programs.2. Symantec Norton AntiSpam SoftwareThere's not a lot of difference between Norton's AntiSpam software and McAffee's SpamKiller. Both work the same way, using an "intelligent" spam-filtering engine to learn what spam to block in the future. Both programs automatically create a whitelist, let you set up friends and/or block lists, and both integrate with Outlook and work with other Pop-3 email programs. One minor drawback; this an...

Top Paying Keywords for Google Adsense
2007-08-07 20:59:00
Ever wonder what the top paying keywords for Googl e 's Adsense are?Well I certainly have. I would never suggest creating unrelated web pages and websites just for Google AdSense...It is against Google's AdSense Terms of Service...and it is very annoying when I come across these sites as well. I was just looking for a way to find out the AdSense campaign effectiveness if my own site's targeted keywords...and if I could "tweek" them slightly for better AdSense payouts on currently running ads, then why not.Well today I found a little jewel. The website is Top Keywords for AdSense Search. You can literally search any keywords you wish and find the highest paying terms...but just a warning. Do not go against Google's AdSense TOS or you will get banned. But you could do a little "tweeking" to see if there are any positive results...but don't do too much or you could lose search engine rankings for formerly targeted terms. Good luck!
More About: Google Adsense

AdSense Filters can Hurt or Help Earnings
2007-08-05 22:19:00
Google AdSense Filters can be a very positive or negative way to effect your earnings. Being an optimist, I'll start with the negative and end with the positive. Be very careful what sites you filter out of your AdSense campaigns. You may be filtering out ads with hi click through rates! The positive side is you can edit out LCPC (low cost per click) sites and the annoying MFA (made for ads) sites. One great site I found is AdsBlackList.com which will generate lists of these sites that you simply cut and paste into your AdSense Filter. Also see this experiment from a member named Nitrous at WebmasterWorld. He eliminated all of his filters to see what would happen, and his earning decreased by 1/3.I have added the generated filters myself, now I will wait and see what happens.
More About: Adsense , Hurt , Earnings , Earning

ODP Continues to Sleep
2007-08-04 17:31:00
While Google still holds some regard for DMOZ by continuing to use their directory results, DMOZ is still at a stand still.Many webmasters say the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) is dead...I disagree, ODP is just sleeping...and has been for some time now. There seem to be less and less "volunteer" editors, and fewer actually participating in the "project", minus added their own websites (and friends websites).So the questions I have is "when will ODP wake up?" And when this "once giant" awakes, what changes will be made?The other side of it is ODP may go into "a comma", get dumped by Google, then...die.
More About: Sleep , Conti

Life at Google from a Former Employee
2007-08-03 15:59:00
Article Source: WordPress.comWhat is the culture really like? How many hours are people actually working? What are the least amount of hours you can work before you are looked down upon?The culture at Googl e is very much like the old culture at Microsoft ? back when the company felt like most employees were in their mid 2's. These kids don't have a life yet so they spend all of their time at work. Google provides nearly everything these people need from clothes (new T-shirts are placed in bins for people to grab twice a week!) to food ? three, free, all-you-can-eat meals a day. Plus on-site health care, dental care, laundry service, gym, etc. Imagine going from college to this environment and you can see how much everyone works. People are generally in the building between 10am and about 6pm every day, but nearly everyone is on e-mail 24/7 and most people spend most of their evenings working from home.This culture changes a bit with more experienced folks. They generally work 10a ...
More About: Life , Employee

Google PR Update...so who really cares?
2007-08-01 17:37:00
Google backlinks are updating on several data centers. A PageRank update is due, and some say it is occuring. Why this post? I'd like to say that too many webmasters are way too concerned about Google PR. PageRank has very little to due with Google's SERPs, or Search Engine Result Pages. Unfortunately PR has become a "tool for SEO companies" that offer empty promises and for webmasters to sell links for PR purposes only. Worry more about backlinks, good content and design (with users in mind) and just forget about PR. Enough said.
More About: Google , Update , Really , Googl , Ally