I looked up this morning a keyword.  I clicked on the 'exact' button.  It did not show exact results.  I clicked the button again.  It showed both broad and exact results.  I clicked on 'average' pay per click, it did not show it to me.  I tried again, same results.  If I try again, expecting different results, will I be entering the realm of madness?

Regarding deleted blog. The last episode ended with the protagonist (that'd be me on a white horse, wearing a white hat, white shirt, white pants, and a gun with an ivory handle -- how do I keep me clean is beyond me) hit a few tabs that got the antagonist (that's be Google, on a black horse, wearing a black hat, black shirt, black pants and a gun with a coal-dark handle) promising to do something within 24 hours.   The antagonist hasn't done anything, therefore, I must conclude that Google

Today I had the time and the curiosity to go to my blogger.com dashboard.  Where I normally clicked to go to the deleted blog, Blogger's put: Restore access to this blog (with the first word hyperlinking to a page where they asked me how I want a verification code sent to me.  I went through the steps and got this: Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blo

This is from Blogger.com's rules.  I've become painfully aware of it because they deleted one of my blogs.  I created it months ago, had 5 backlinks from comments on people's articles.  It was pointing to one of my sites.  And no, it was not designed to drive traffic to my site.  This one was designed to allow me to play with things.  The last thing I did with it, is put Amazon.com ads on it, wanted to see how it looks, how it works, where they work better. Yes, it

  The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business Do you use email in your business? The CAN-SPAM Act, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. Despite its name, the CAN-SPAM Act doesn’t apply just to bulk email. It covers all commercial messages, which the law defines as “any electronic mail message the primary purp

If you've used any kind of SEO tool (Market Samurai, perhaps?), you've noticed that some times the top guy has PR of 0, 50 backlinks and the next guy has 3,000 backlinks and PRof 6.    Sometimes the 0 PR top guy is optimized to the hilt, sometimes just a tad better than the #2 guy.    That tells you Google loves relevancy above everything else.  So when you post comments on blogs, forget about PR and concentrate on relevancy.  Then remember PR (Relevant and hig

I spent yesterday fixing technical difficulties (undeserved ones, of course). That's it.  Just wanted to share.  I'm generous that way.

In case you were interested in knowing your relationship to PageRank in a socio-political way. The fatal attraction of the masses for Google seems to rely more on its mystical power to set a spectacular value for anything and anybody than on the precision of its results. Rumours say that PageRank will be replaces soon by TrustRank, another algorithm developed by Stanford University and Yahoo researchers to separate useful webpages from spam and establish a sort of community trust or a new cybe

Well, maybe it was a homicide - no suicide note.  But it's definitely dead and that definitely annoys me.  

Since nobody seems to have read the last post, I make it easy for you now: Top of Form Bottom of Form Our new search index: Caffeine 6/08/2010 05:00:00 PM (Cross-posted on the Webmaster Central Blog) Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now fi