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Are You Getting Nuked By Google Lately?

15 Aug

Are You Getting Nuked By Google Lately? By: Martin Lemieux

Since the last Google update, there have been many instances and
examples of the Google Nuke Bot! This is what I call it anyway.
Have you visited a favorite website lately only to realize
they’ve been nuked by Google?

More and more we are seeing internet marketing / SEO companies
getting nuked, by Google completely removing them from their
data banks. I am not going to mention any names because I’m sure
the owners of the once populated websites already know and are
embarrassed from this development.

Since the word went out on WebPositionGold getting banned from
Google for automatic queries sent to Google, we are noticing
other related websites going down for the count as well.

For the info on WebPositionGold, go here:

http://www.socialpatterns.com/search-engine-marketing/webposition

-banned/

The things is, we already know about Webpositiongold, what about
other sites that are getting hit hard? Has your site been nuked?

It seems as though, some sites that had thousands of links
pointing from Google are getting hit the hardest. It seems like
Google is cracking down on “spam tactics”, “submission tactics”,
and anything related to unethical SEO practices.

Is Google Making An Effort To Uphold Their Webmaster Guidelines?

Will it come to a point where if we don’t uphold the Google
guidelines, we cannot be successful online? This thought is
ridiculous but almost scary to think it could happen! What about
website’s that still hide text through same background colours?
Hidden div layers? and mirror pages? Why hasn’t Google attacked
those issues first?

You can almost make the assumption that by Google nuking
websites that send automatic ranking & link popularity queries
to their data base, this may be a huge effort to relieve the
strain on the query servers in order to free up some memory.

How Does Getting Your Website Nuked From Google Affect Your
Credibility?

An event like this could ultimately ruin your reputation online.
People who have come to trust your knowledge and judgment on
Google rankings may never look at your company the same ever
again. People might think to themselves “I don’t want to get
nuked like they did!”.

How Can You Tell You’ve Been Nuked?

* Your Google Page Rank is now 0-2/10 and should be at least
5/10 * You have zero backlinks listing in Google anymore * You
have zero internal website listings within Google by doing
(site:www.yoursite.com) * Google’s cache of your website is no
longer to be found

For newer websites, don’t be confused between this nuking
process and your own evolution online. Getting and maintaining a
high PR level takes a lot of work.

Once Nuked, Does Google Still Come Back?

The question I have for websites that have been nuked: Can you
still see Google in your stat log files for your site? If so, I
wonder if Google is still keeping an eye on you and watching
your every move?

In Conclusion:

Stay away from programs that generate automatic queries into
Google. Don’t check your link popularity 3 times a week and
especially don’t check your search engine rankings twice a day.
Just simply promote your website and measure your success
through your internal website stats and monthly profits. Google
doesn’t appreciate websites that consistently draw their power
in order to measure their success, just simply take that out of
your daily actions.

Cheers to your online success!

 
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The Yahoo Reverse Phone Number Service is Just as Good as Those Offered by Other Search Engines

15 Aug

Yahoo is the second most popular search engine online. It provides internet users with plenty of search options including general searches, travel, entertainment, real estate and Yahoo reverse phone number searches. Like Google and other search engines, Yahoo allows web surfers the chance to look for personal information (I.E. name and location) on an unknown caller by entering a phone number into their main web search box.

You should try a Yahoo reverse phone number lookup, even if you’ve already attempted to search for a mystery caller by using the services of another search engine. The reason is because all search engines seek out and index information in different ways. Thus, one search engine may be able to find something another one could not detect or find for you.

To begin your reverse phone number search using yahoo, it’s a good idea to conduct a general search to find out what results will be called up. What you will discover is that your search will either return specific results, or millions of results that will be impossible for you to look through. The following are all of the ways you can try searching for an area code and 7-digit phone number:

• Put the number in quotes and uses dashes – I.E. “111-111-1111”

• Use the plus symbol in place of dashes – I.E. 111+111+1111

• No dashes or spaces between numbers – I.E. 1111111111

With any luck, all of these different search methods will provide you with diverse results, and hopefully with the information you are looking for.

If you are unable to obtain results through a general search method, you may want to try a more advanced search by using Yahoo’s People Search site, and choosing their reverse phone lookup option.

Should you still be unsuccessful finding results with the advanced Yahoo reverse phone number search, there could be a number of explanations for the poor turnout, such as if the number you are looking for is:

• Unlisted

• Belongs to a cell phone

• Is an international number

• Has been typed in wrong

Yahoo only provides results for American landline phones (both business and residential) that are listed in a public directory. Therefore, should the number you want to lookup belong to a cell phone, using a wireless reverse phone number search would be more useful to you, than Yahoo.

Remember, when it comes to reverse phone lookups, the success of your results depends on the limitations of the reverse phone number site you are using.

Gloria is a phone geek who hates telemarketers and loves new gadgets.

 
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