Last week I was at Google (London) with some of the Webmaster Tools Team, where we traded ideas and features. I did my normal thing of, this would be so cool… but I could also use it for evil if I wanted to….

Anyway I’m back in the office now and checking on how a site move and url restructure is going, then it came to me, how cool would it be if Google showed me :

OK the cool thing is that by Google showing me the IP address for my site, I know what data they are getting is correct and up to date ( evil : yep cloaking is working )

All I need now is the redirect data, Something like :

Anyway those are my ideas while I going though the process of redesigning a site and moving hosts.

What others would you want or need ?

DaveN

OK, it’s time to get your nuts roasting on the open fire and start the merry festivities with mulled wine and wave some glittering tinsel.

Dec25th is nearly upon us, but what is the best Christmas present for the man who has everything?

I’ve been racking my brain (alright, didn’t take long) but what can you buy Mr SEO ?..this has to be something special as it is also Dave’s…wait for it…BIG 40th Birthday on the 19th December. Somehow I doubt socks will cut the mustard….

Dave’s SEO Pals are bound to have the answer I thought. Feel free to send suggestions.

Dan Horton

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DaveN

Looking at recent news it appears the focus is still on social networking. MySpace now gains its spotlight on showcasing music and selling performance videos.  Facebook struggles with privacy issues ( or does it, think of the publicity the site has gained in recent weeks) Ebay are trying to crack Japan.

Companies will soon be asking for an entire presence on social networking sites and will realise the huge target audiences of ebay.

The whole shape of SEO is set to change and search is bound to be more and more social. Personally, I welcome the forthcoming changes. This should also shake up the worryingly high number of so-called internet marketing companies appearing on the web who offer little more than expensive review services and out of date SEO methodology.

Dan Horton

First off, let me say that I do feel the frustration of search engineers when it comes to paid links and in the same breath I feel myself shaking my head in disbelief.

How many of my readers would run PCC on a domain what had expired or site that was dead?
Yet, how many people link to a site in a blog post because it was funny at the TIME. YES at the TIME…?
Take Dave from http://www.rentvine.com/ he did that video thing that Matt said was ok… what if you went to that video page you linked to a few months ago and he had 301′d it to his Homes for rent in California should the search engines fuck me over or Dave ??
What if Like Matt Cutts that likes Tireflys. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/tireflys/ ??? If that was a paid link I bet it would have moved to the new site ;)
Personally, I see both side of the story and Matt post about Brain Tumours was very touching, but if you dig around some of the other touching industries that have affiliates you will find Adwords running, or even this guy www.cancertruth. net that is running adwords for brain tumours that tells me there is not one, but many cures for cancer.
But they are all being systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.
From Matts Blog:
“If you put your user hat back on, I hope you’ll agree that you wouldn’t want a serious medical search for brain tumour treatments to be affected by inaccurate or uninformed posts. In fact, if you stumbled across these entries on the web, you might not know whether someone got paid for writing these posts. In the same way that a regular surfer would want disclosure to know if a post were paid, the entire major search engines also want to make sure that paid posts are adequately disclosed to search engines as well. Google’s documentation for webmasters gives examples of how to do that. I believe the vast majority of our users don’t want our organic search results for something as serious as brain tumours to be affected by links in paid posts.”
As I said, I feel the SE’s Pain when it comes to buying links, but we buy links to get on the first serp in Google just the same has buying adwords..In our eyes
Dave