I know people hate it when people out others, but I have to do this. I ran across a site that:
1) Creates with content.
2) Has with little or no original content.
3) Has already been caught buying links for one of its international sites
4) Creating pages with malicious behavior
Matt should shut this obvious blackhat down.
Matt you can find the site at (you will note that I nofollowed the links to them to avoid a penalty from being in a bad neighborhood)
Adaptation.
If anyone were to ask me what I will be focusing on in 2009 it would be that concept.
I am adapting in both my personal life and professional.
Recently the Snyder family moved from South Florida, our long time home, to Utah.
This was a change of monumental proportions for us. The reasons the change is so big are obvious, and probably do not need to be stated, but I feel the reasons for the move do, and tie back into my overall focus as I head into 2009.
The move to Utah was for both professional and personal reasons.
I had hit a wall.
I had become stagnant.
My days began to bleed into each other. It effected my work. Worse it effected my family.
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I found yet another change in the way Google hands Universal search interesting today.
These changes actually were originally noticed in Spring of this year with the inclusion of thumbnail pics.
I am seeing mixture of the standard OneBox for Google Products with three links to various retailers and links separating the products in Google Base by cost. This will force users into Google Base instead of letting them click from the SERP to the retailer.
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Universal Search has changed the way we view search engines and even the act of searching.
Now Google has changed the way video shows up in the Universal Search results.
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So I was doing some research yesterday, and was noticing a drastic difference in the quality of the Live search results.
I decided to do comparative analysis, and was stunned to begin finding that Live’s results were actually trumping Google’s in terms of relevance.