Well we are yet not 24 hours into the launch of the product and we are looking for vulnerabilities, how could it be gamed to turn it to the advantage of the spammers. Well in all honesty it took Michael Gray not very long at all.
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Google knows what clothes i am wearing via SideWiki
SEO and the Wonder Wheel
*** Update July 2011 – The Wonderwheel Product from Google has been discontinued ***
How far has Google come in terms of understanding search patterns and related terms? Well a long way would be one way of putting it, but after playing about with the Wonder Wheel (not my voice or vid) for a few months now i wanted to see how far i could stretch the term SEO to see where i ended up and although a lot of people have us seo`s pigeon holed much like your own industry ,the results are very suprising.
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How Long will it take Googlebot to come by?
One of the most common questions for new sites is “How long will it take for Google to list my site in their results?”.
Google states that once submitted using their “Submit Url” form;
“We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the web, and we invite you to submit your URL here. We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.”
In other words it may be a few week to months before your website is included, it may also be a lot faster than that through simply linking to it from another website that is already listed within their results. This is easier than you think and you may have already seen “add your website” or “submit url” links on your travels around the web already, the beauty of having your website listed faster is by gaining a link from a popular website that is visited often by Googles Indexing spider “Googlebot”.
So how do you find one of those popular websites?
Social Media and Networking websites such as Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon and Delicious are great starting points, this will speed up the process by simply adding your websites address to your “Profile” after signing up. Commenting on other websites that share a similar topic to your own will also improve your chances of being listed quicker a very simple way of finding those websites is to enter a simple search over at Google Blog Search, finding a blog and participating by way of comments will improve your chances of being indexed quicker, be sure though that these websites use “Dofollow” for their links as “Nofollow” goes against everything you are trying to achieve.
Dofollow directories of blogs do exist and i can highly recommend Directory Bloggers guide to blogs that use “Dofollow”
So in answer to the question: “How Long will it take Googlebot to come by?” really depends on how active you are being in these other areas to get it listed.
Google Labs Playground
Welcome to Google labs from a different angle. This is the part on the internet that bears absolutely no relation to actually having a Google labs project realized or even noticed, this is a playful look at what i would do if i had free reign over the whole Labs project at Mountain View.
Today i had a brain fart and decided that i would like to begin several projects, i am going to skip by all the pre project meetings and go straight to the “right my insightful engineers, this is what i want you to build” route.
Straight to it then.
Google Messageboard
This my engineers, will be developed for our main search product, your simple brief is to review the feedback we are receiving from Googlers with regards to our terms and conditions and actually warn SEO`s, SEM`s and your everyday webmasters that optimizing for a term or even just searching for a term that contravenes our T`s and c`s will bring up a sticky message at the top of the search results.
Adsense Support
For this one, i would like you to set up a system where your everyday Adsense advertiser has the opportunity to provide support to those that are getting to know the product and feedback any serious technical issues to a real human instead of an automated email response that does not for example, fix issues with payments being put on hold because you entered the wrong pin number, We have nearly 20,000 employees worldwide, surely one of those could figure out a way to give a real response.
Google Compliance Generator
This one is going to be tricky, but we have the brightest minds on the planet working for us. I would like webmasters to be given the opportunity to run their entire sites code through a markup engine that will spit out compliance from the other end. The markup will be specified by the webmaster from a simple drop down then they will enter their url will which will spit out the code at the other end.
Google SEO Checker
This one will be a huge hit, we are giving nothing away about how we measure a website for search, we are simply going to accept one page at a time that will let SEO`s and SEM`s know whether a page is drawing a negative for ranking in the Search Results. They specify the URL of a page, we will measure it using our algorithm and simply tell the SEO, yes it`s got negative factors.
Enough for now i need another coffee fix
