GoogleGuy Says - Google Ranking InfoThis web site tracks the words of a Google employee known as GoogleGuy. GoogleGuy is a Google employee who is very helpful in responding to questions and providing information to webmasters about changes at GoogleGoogle's Secret Lab- June 6, 2005 Importance: HighIt has been reveal by Henk van Ess that Google has a secret search quality lab that utilizes human testers with the goal of improving search quality. More info can be found on his SearchBistro blog. According to Henk, "It's a lab of humans from all over the world (from China to The Netherlands, from Korea to Brasil) They are paid to check search results of Google every day. Most of the employees, called international agents by Google, were recruited through universities all...http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/archives/discuss-googles-secret-lab.html Google Do's and Don'ts- June 3, 2005 Importance: HighWhile giving more clues about the latest Google 'Bourbon' update, GoogleGuy has also talked about a few important things that should be done or not done, when optimizing your website for Google (but not only for Google). I've been aching for a long time to mention somewhere official that sites shouldn't use '&id=' as a parameter if they want maximal Googlebot crawlage, for example. So many sites use '&id=' with session IDs that Googlebot usually avoids urls with that...http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/archives/discuss-google-dos-and-donts.html Google Update Bourbon Not Over Yet- June 1, 2005 Importance: HighGoogle's latest updated, nicknamed 'Bourbon' is not over. Many people thought the update was completed more than a week ago, but GoogleGuy is now suggesting that the update is only 14% completed and that there may be 2 more weeks of rankings changes until things settle. Here's the advice that I'd give now: take a break from checking ranks for several more days. Bourbon includes something like 3.5 improvements in search quality, and I believe that only a couple are out so far..http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/archives/discuss-google-update-bourbon-not-over-ye... |