<title> » google http://www.adammoro.com/blog Internet Marketing, Web Development and Programming Stuff Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:58:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google Profiles in Regular Search Results http://www.adammoro.com/blog/google-profiles-in-regular-search-results.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/google-profiles-in-regular-search-results.html#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:08:44 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=126 A little less than a year ago, Google started including Google Profile pages in vertical results but it seems they have taken it one step further by now including them in regular search results (as depicted in the image above). Seems "fair" enough considering Google profiles are now jam-packed with all sorts of buzz and aggregated information from other websites.

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/google-profiles-in-regular-search-results.html/feed 0 Force Google to Show “Latest results for…” http://www.adammoro.com/blog/force-google-to-show-latest-results-for.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/force-google-to-show-latest-results-for.html#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:08:58 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=50 If you've read the article at Vizion Interactive about how to force Google into showing the "Latest results for..." (also referred to as, "Real-time results") in the search results and felt like it left you, well, wanting more, then here's how it's done.

Simply append, "&tbs=rltm:1" to Google's url for their search results. For example:

google.com/search?q=anything&tbs=rltm:1

So in other words, do a search for anything, then click in the address bar of your browser and add &tbs=rltm:1 to the end of the URL. That's it.

For more of these fun Google search URL parameters, Yoast has a bunch here.

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/force-google-to-show-latest-results-for.html/feed 0 What Do People Think Google Is? http://www.adammoro.com/blog/what-do-people-think-google-is.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/what-do-people-think-google-is.html#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:37:01 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=23 I was looking for something that tracks Twitter hash tags and started typing "is there" when the first Query Suggestion took me by surprise. It just made me wonder what exactly people think Google is? Here's that first suggestion along with the remaining nine suggestions that followed.

  1. is there a god
  2. is there going to be a transformers 3
  3. is there water on the moon
  4. is there life after death
  5. is there mail on veterans day
  6. is there no help for the widow's son
  7. is there life on mars
  8. is there life on other planets
  9. is there a cure for herpes
  10. is there mail today

Of those ten searches, eight of them actually can be answered (in an evidential capacity) but number one and number four makes me wonder. You could argue these two keywords are searched by people looking for discussions to help them in their personal journeys to answer those questions for themselves but I would guess that I'm giving the majority of them too much credit. My guess is that they are actually looking to Google for definitive, fact-based answers. Do people think Google has the answer to everything?

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/what-do-people-think-google-is.html/feed 0 RFP! RFP! RFP! Then RFP http://www.adammoro.com/blog/rfp-then-rfp.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/rfp-then-rfp.html#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:46:48 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=1 If you've been getting more and more requests for SEO proposals that mysteriously keep getting denied, you may be falling victim to a relatively new dirty little SEO secret (or you're just not great at writing proposals but let's assume that you are).

We all know Google has been moving towards leveraging user signals over webmaster signals for some time now. We also know that Eric Schmidt is focused on brands as a solution for removing the cesspool-ish attributes of their SERPs. So let me ask you, what's the first thing you do when you get an SEO RFP? If you're like many of the seasoned SEOs out there then you probably do something like this. But what's the very first thing you do? Is it a search for the prospective client's core keywords? Is it a search for their company name? Either way you probably end up doing both and then what's the next thing you do when you're staring at the results for those searches? Don't you usually click on your prospect's result?

I wonder what sending out hundreds of requests for proposals would do for your brand popularity from Google's algorithmic perspective. Looks like the small guys still have a chance!

]]> http://www.adammoro.com/blog/rfp-then-rfp.html/feed 0 Fake Your Google PageRank http://www.adammoro.com/blog/fake-google-pagerank.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/fake-google-pagerank.html#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:27:26 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=10

Every SEO has seen the Dark SEO PR 10 page (which is banned and probably has been for a long time now) and regardless of whether they’ll admit it, have always wanted to give it a shot.

Here’s the code:

<?php
$agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
if(strpos($agent, "google") != "") {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.w3.org/");
exit;
}
?>

Just place this at the top (important that it’s at the very top) of the page for which you want to fake PageRank. As you can see, I’m shooting for a 10 but you can obviously change the url (http://www.w3.org/) to get your desired PR.

If you're wondering how this can be used to boost organic placement, it can't. You would have to use something like this (and replace the link on line 2 with a link to a page you want to promote:

<?php ob_start(); ?>
<a href="http://www.php.net/">php is cool</a>
<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.w3.org/“);
exit;
?>
<?php ob_end_flush(); ?>
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