Recent history has thought us that Google’s policy is to buy payed services/applications (Picasa, Earth, Urchin) and than release it to the masses for free. A pointer from the Measuremap forums shows that this is going to change soon:
Multiple blogs: lots of people have asked us for the ability to track multiple blogs per account. We will likely release this in two stages: first, you’ll be able to add as many blogs as you want. Later, we will be offering some tools to help you compare the traffic between your blogs. Both of these will probably be paid features when we launch our “unlimited” version of Measure Map.
What would you do if a client will come to your SEO company and will say the following:
I have a 2 months old domain and I need optimization for a highly competitive keyword, 100 millions website competition and I need it done in 10 days?
If you are not a scammer you will throw him out or if you have some spare time you will sit down with him and explain it that what he wants is quite impossible.
Breaking News: It is possible. No black hat, no tons of content no links bought.
How about that?
Ajax. Initial a popular detergent and in the past 2 years a geek buzzword mainly attached to what is now called as Web 2.0. 100.000.000 websites competition according to Google. Obviously a suicide job for most of the white hat SEO companies.
Ajaxwrite.com did it. #9 in 10 days and climbing toward the top 5.
On March 23rd almost simultaneously appears on: Slashdot, Digg, Techcrunch, Ajaxian, Solution watch and in another 1075 blog articles since than (according to Technorati) – What is curious is that Technorati says that there are only 159 links pointing to that domain.
I will not go again rambling about the quality of the service. Many others have done it and will do it from now on. My point on that is here.
Instead let’s see what Google optimization myths were shattered: Myth: Only old domains score for high competitive keywords Truth: As I said probably registered in February or January. That counts 2-3 month max
Myth: Sandbox Truth: What sandbox? Is #9 in 10 days for a competitive keyword. We already know that spiders are reacting fast on new domains, but many have claimed that even though you are indexed you will score only for low quality keywords.
Myth: You need external links from high PR sites. Truth: Really? I wonder how many blogs from those 1075 have a PR higher than 3. And probably Google indexed post pages that most of them due to their age have a PR 0
Myth: The age of the links matters Truth: Probably. But in this case links were not older than 10 days.
Myth: You need a lot of quality content to get in top 10. Truth: Really? Never thought that 1 page of cheap bullshit marketing is called “quality content”
Myth: Any burst of external links using the same anchor will be marked as bought links and will have no value Truth: Great one Matt Cutts. I think that India was shacked by an earthquake when all the Indian link builders saw that and started to laugh. The seed of truth is that a sudden burst of external links site wide MIGHT be counted as advertisement and thrown away. Keep in mind that the magic phrase is “10 days”.
So. What to learn from that.
1. Nothing is impossible
2. Most of the things said in SEO forums are myths based on heuristics AND on negative examples (that might have other logical explanations). As an example of what that means: psychanalysis was developed by Freud on psychiatric hospitals on pacients and in time it showed no value for normal people
3. Links are valuable no matter their source (don’t aim for PR 5 or higher links, it might cost you more than is worth)
4. One way links MIGHT be the key
5. Always when you launch a product be aware of the power of the blogosphere. It’s almost free and all it takes is to know it and to be nice with it
6. Don’t trust any SEO advice or excuse. SEO is based mostly on reverse engineering and heuristic. There are no facts only theories and results
More than one year after Yahoo launched Y!Q Search, Google launches version 2.0 (like in web 2.0) and calls it Google Related Links. Of course a beta product and worse than the original ideea. Probably another brilliant project from the 20% series.
Most likely is based on the same set of Common Words that are shown in Google Sitemaps in site analysis section or on the Adsense indexing engine. Probably in the near future one of the killer features that will be added will be to allow webmasters to target through html tags only partial content of a page (feature that was from the beginning in Y!Q search).
This would have been a good April Fools joke but unfortunately is real.
I’ll dedicate this South Park episode to the guys at Google and Yahoo.
Google because of the Analytics, Measuremap,Page creator and the never ending closed betas and Yahoo because of the Yahoo! Go Desktop.
Google added a few days ago a new feature to their Analytics service. The feature called Site Overlay is available in Google Analytics->Dashboards->View->Site Overlay and is described in their own words as:
Google Analytics displays your website pages superimposed with click and conversion data for each link. Site Overlay doesn’t require any downloads, and allows you to easily see which links lead to conversions, just by browsing your site.
A service (Crazy Egg) offering a similar feature was presented on TechCrunch but is still in private beta and the GUI is lees usable than the Google Analytics.
Data offered by those 2 services are not new on traffic analysis packages but the method of presenting them is more valuable
EDIT:
On a beer talk a friend of mine said that I don’t use F-words on this blog. Ok here you have it:
FUCK the idiots promoting Planzo, 30boxes and Hipcal with comments on Digg and TechCrunch. Make better services dumbasses and then people will be writing about you. Stop spamming news sites
Just woke up and found in my email the best news this year. MeasureMap got bought by Google. Thew news is already on the main tech blogs but I haven’t seen the email nowhere so here you have it.
Congratulations guys. I think that I haven’t been happier before on an aquisition. You REALLY deserved this:
I want to share some important news with our earliest users of Measure Map.
Since its inception, my colleagues and I have seen tremendous potential for Measure Map to influence how people blog, and how they understand participation on the Web. We have always expected it to be big, and as such, our desire was to give Measure Map its start and then send it out into the world to grow and evolve into a strong, meaningful application.
Through the dedication of a fantastic team, along with your tremendous support in the form of feedback, feature requests, and overwhelmingly positive comments, have built a product that is fundamentally different from every other analytics application available today. We’re both grateful and proud.
So I said there was news, and here it is: I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been acquired by Google, effective today. For the near term, you will see no difference in its operations. In the not so distant future, you can expect great things from this acquisition. We couldn’t be happier to find such an ideal home for Measure Map, and are thrilled at the possibilities.
While this is a milestone for all of us at Adaptive Path, this sale does not affect how we operate, nor will it alter the structure of the Adaptive Path organization. Adaptive Path is still here, stronger than ever, and it will be for a long time to come. Above all, we remain
committed to the principle that superior user experience inspires innovation and creates business advantage.
Thank you again for your input, your time, and your support of Measure Map. Should you have any questions or comments about any of this, please do not hesitate to contact me.
For more information, please see our post on the Google Blog:
Today while reading a good post on Vista’s UI by Luke Wroblewski, the things gotclearer and the big picture revealed. Windows Explorer is based on Internet Explorer and Vista’s WE will be based on IE7 by that having a search box on the right top corner. Considering the fact that on Vista, to local search results will be added web results AND maybe advertising, a competitor winning that litlle corner will hit Microsoft just below the belt.
By the moment Vista will be officialy launched I bet that the Google Desktop will perfectly work with it and more and more regular Joe’s will use it.
Spotted via LifeHacker is this post on how to increase traffic to your blog.
The 3 techniques mentioned there are:
1. Technorati tags. Ok this one is good but not always a valid ideea. It depends on how you formulate your tags and your field of blogging. Not all subjects/tags receive the same traffic and you have to research a lot in order to have maximum profit. Why tags are important:
some of them are closely monitored through RSS feeds by a lot of people and you get instant traffic after publishing a post.
due to the fact that Technorati site is extremely SEF they score well on Google (some may argue that this is because of their partnership with Google Adsense but that’s another story).
Technorati links are clean, without condoms. They might help you as external links. So choose carefully your post’s titles.
2. Feedburner headline animator. Blablabla. Not a bad ideea but for sure not a great one. Instead or complementary you can use personal content aggregators.
3. Trackbacks. A good point if used properly:
When writing a post check Technorati for others that have approached the same subject. Look for those with many incoming links, they will get you the traffic you want. This is the technique that Techcrunch used on the early posts and now is on the A-List. Best way to do this: Write your post and at the end make a section like “Additional infos” where you put apx 3-5 external links. Don’t forget to send the trackbacks
Look for those blogs that put trackbacks above regular comments or react fast to market trends.
Don’t be an idiot. Don’t just write smthg like “X has said this” and send the trackback. Bring your personal view into the post
Beside those above you can use the following too:
Comments. Comment as much as you can but again avoid being an idiot. Try developing a relationship with the bloggers you are commenting on. Identify valuable posts as on trackbacks
Use social bookmarking sites for SEO and organic traffic. Barry Schwartz used to do that on Yahoo’s MyWeb but there are at least 5-10 valuable ones. Properly tag your posts of course.
Inspired by the original post: Use a mischivieng title like “Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days” :). I say that because it may take longer than 30 days but what a hell we are the fast-food/fast-fuck generation and we want to believe is possible. And….it only applies to blogs not to all websites (static ones for examples). If you have a static website though, you can create a blogger account and you can deploy that blog on a directory or a subdomain of your main site.
We have re-enabled the “Add Profile” feature for a limited number of Google Analytics customers. These customers will be able to add a limited number of profiles to their account. As we continue to expand capacity, the limit will gradually be increased up to the original limit of 50.
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