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I’ve just notice today that google has been hit by a duplicate content penalty and dropped in rankings…

I’m lazy and wanted to log into google webmaster tool so I search on google for “sitemaps” (It used to be sitemaps before)…

Anyway for the last few years google has been #1 for the search term “sitemaps” BUT not today…

Here is a screen shot showing google has indexed google.com and www.google.com

We can expect more ranking drop for google’s page over the next few weeks until google works out which is the “real” url..

Here is the query.. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sitemap

Noticed this morning that for one site I work on the google sitelinks have updated..  

In this update google has picked a really odd page and also has applied text to the new a link to the page and not the link’s alt tag itself.. And yes its a image only link..

One other thing about this link is the fact its all in lowercase..  I’ve not noticed sitelinks that are lower case before.. I’ll keep a eye on this one! …

Up until last week my twittering was running at about a post a month lol..

The bird was almost DEAD!

BUT

Now she’s back..

And fighting FIT!

See widget / badge top right or join me twittering away: http://twitter.com/gabs 

A seo blog called blackhatplant has by the look of it pinged technorati with what I assume a load of seo blog links as I can’t find a link (yet) ….. 

Anyway the title of this blog is massive…  

Why do this? Well anyone loading up a blog’s dashboard e.g. on wordpress has a pannel with incomming links normally for the result of a blog reactions from technorati…

The screen shot below shows how big the one link is…

Also you can see it by going to http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.seohome.co.uk/?reactions

The total number of words if 358!!!

SEO is repeated 49 times

Fun

Kindle is a little computer which allows you to download books/blogs/newspaper from amazon at a cost…

This could be a big thing and for us seo’s the most interesting thing would be to find out how to get your blog on the list..

The telegraph mentions you can only download book from amazon ONLY so I’m guessing it will be the same for the blogs.. 

Looks pretty cool…

More info here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/20/wamazon120.xml

I’ve just been playing with good old google suggest to apply the same sort of suggestion box to a site I work on…

Anyway i’ve typed a random letter “d” and up came the suggestion “Dictionary”… Clicked it and got taken to the Dictionary serps…

Fine.. Serps look good with a ad for ig at the top.. Nice idea having ig listed!!!!

BUT…

Half the ads have imho ZERO relevance! …

Screen shot :

So a credit company… and a software for estate agencies….

hmmmmmm..

On the 15th November 2007 google change the format of the adsense ads..

Loads of reports hit blogs and forum with people worried about the fact that clicks will go down!

What changed?

Well basically you can now only click on the title of the ad OR the url if its displayed… I think its great… Perfect.. I was not worry as I’m a adwords user and feel it good for us!

Here more info from google about it:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/11/accidental-clicks-fade-into-background.html

OK so you know about the changes now..

Well what’s the effect?

In regards to my adsense I have seen a increase in CTR of 0.5% which i’m very happy with..

I’m sure the advertisers are happy too…  This is only the first week of the new format but its great imho!

So here it is.. Google new hand made logo live on google.co.uk

 Pretty cool

 The information on the doodle page hasn’t been updated but i’m sure it will be soon

Well done to the winning doodle called “This or This?” by Claire Rammelkamp, Doodle 4 Google winner

http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/

Yep.. Its that time again..

A load of seo’s in a pub…

Tomorrow night is londonseo’s pissup meeting in a great little swedish pub in central..

I going to be about from around 6pm so come and say hello! …

All the info is here: http://londonseo.org/blog/smx-london-2007-party-venue-confirmed.html

Today yahoo is now in the UK using a similar system to google regarding google’s “smart pricing” …

From today, 15th November, advertisers in the UK can benefit from discounted clicks for better quality traffic

Cool discounted clicks …

One big problem with this.. As yahoo hasn’t launched YPN in the uk then this is really only to be a tiny change.. Why?

Well… The “discount clicks” only apply to “partner distribution network” clicks.. So.. With no YPN in the uk then is a small number of site “driving” this traffic…

Don’t hold you breath for a massive increase in traffic due to this change…

 What is changing?
Previously you were charged the same amount for traffic from all websites within our partner distribution network. However, with pricing discounts, a discounting system will be introduced and you may be charged less for certain clicks than the price you would normally pay. This discount depends on the overall quality of the websites who are providing this traffic to you. As a result, your click charges may decrease

Maybe just maybe UK YPN is coming !!!

Full info here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/ysm/sps/start/overview_qbp.html