I am looking for a freelancer who can build an Adsense site that will earn consistently $5-$10 per day at least for 21 days. The problem? Anyone who can do that reliably will already be doing it. Why would they hire themselves out to you for you to capture the gains of their work? They [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Search Engines'
Bad job ad of the day
December 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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On that Google doodle
October 7th, 2009 · 14 Comments
If you use the main google page today you’ll note that it’s got a doodle on it. Yes, when you run the Google barcode back through a barcode reader, it does indeed say “Google”. But having scribbled about it elsewhere I wanted to use it to make a deeper point for you economic sophisticates. It’s [...]
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Google Problems
August 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So, I’ve found out what seems to be happening at the other site. Using the link: command, up until last week you’d find that there were 10-11 thousand links to the site. Now there only seem to be 2,000 or so. So I know why things are not turning up as front page google results, [...]
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Bleg on Google
August 9th, 2008 · No Comments
So, anyone know what’s going on with Google then? Over at the other site we’ve been getting pretty successful at getting first page results for various celebrity stories. OK, so they decay off the front page after a few days, but that’s fine. But traffic was up at 10k-15k page views a day. Then two [...]
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Petronella Wyatt
May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Over at the old blog, a piece on Petronella Wyatt seems to be getting a lot of attention from the search engines. I wonder why that could be? Has something happened?
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Misunderstanding Google
April 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Oh dear, someone really should have a little chat with the Guardian Leader writers. The proposed merger has been about how other players could combat Google’s increasing arm lock on search and the El Dorado of advertising that goes with it. Google does indeed have the lion’s share of search activity on the web. It [...]
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Symptoms of the Sub Prime
April 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Top search on Google trends (ie, not the top search on Google, rather, the one which has shown the largest uptick in activity over the past hours or so): sell mortgage note And, umm 100% of those searches were coming from Las Vegas. A place, as we know, which had one of the biggest bubbles [...]
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Google Indexing
March 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Hmmm. It’s happened again. Over at the other blog, had a piece insanely successful, about a certain Ms. Ashley Alexandra Dupree. It’s not all that fascinating, being simply a link to a number of news stories. But it was a first page Google result for the search term and was bringing in the traffic (some [...]
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Project Quaero
March 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments
The European Union’s competition watchdog has appoved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google. It’s French money being spent on a French project, so, good luck to them, no skin off my nose. However, I do smell at least [...]
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Googlewhacking
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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How To Tell If You Are Famous
February 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This is actually very tough. Tom’s Postulate on the Universal Nature of Fame A person is truly famous if and only if his or her name, when entered in quotes into the Google search engine, returns more hits than does the phrase "she moaned." Mother Theresa. for example, doesn’t make it. (A search for Internet [...]
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New Year in Latvia
January 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
Clearly doesn’t always run smoothly. Today’s interesting Google search: penis amputation how to
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Help with Mr. Google
December 3rd, 2007 · 5 Comments
The weirdest thing happened over the weekend. I had a post up at the other place which was getting some fairly serious traffic. 10,000 page views a day or so. Then, sometime early Sunday morning, Google dropped that post from the index. In fact, they dropped all of my posts that were made on the [...]
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More on the Google Algorithm
October 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
As I said a few days ago the traditional method of gaining a ranking in Google, using anchor text and linkage, a la Google Bombing, seems not to work any more. The original entry was at number 41 in the listings, adding (or attempting to add) more mojo to it made it fall, significantly (somewhere [...]
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