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Google is taking action against two scam Google Money Kit and Google Money System. The 2 systems have been promoting themselves on Adwords, and now will have their accounts banned. On top of that, Google Money Kit is not even found in search results, with a complaint taking up #1 for the phrase “google money kit”.

SEO Roundtable also reports that Google is taking action against other known scams that use Adwords to advertise. Aaron Wall has long criticized Google for letting scammers have free way on Adwords, and finally big G is taking action. The scam industry is a multi million dollar business, which makes rich quite a few dogs, willing to take people’s money.

I hope we will see many of the big and obvious scams go down in flames.

As far as the soft scams, like get rich quick - they will always be there, because there’s an army of people, who are new to the internet, and will have to make a couple bad mistakes before learning the ropes.

Google Goes Into Real Estate Market

SEO Team — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:55:19 +0000

Google started offering advanced features for real estate searches on Google maps. If you do any searches such as a city name + real estate, Google will offer you an option to do a deeper search. If you do chose to do a deeper search, you will see hundreds of real estate listings on maps.

There’s also an option to refine search by square footage, number of rooms, area and more.

Google gets real estate data from Google Base and from other real estate search engine providers. The real estate listing websites have called Google a scraper site, and voiced a negative view of the search engine, so Google has an uphill battle, to change the view of real estate listing website, make them access their databases and the same time figure out how to monetize newly released feature.

SEO Guide From Google and Microsoft

SEO Team — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:54:51 +0000

Google and Microsoft have released SEO Help for webmasters.

The Google Guide - Google recommends adjusting titles with keywords, making sure there are keywords in the content, but most importantly document stresses the importance of making a quality website. As for link building, Google says build a quality website and links will come flowing in.

Bing SEO Guide - Bing SEO guide does not give much SEO tips, rather it points out new Bing features. The features are related searches in the left side pane, search history, best match, how Bing categorizes and more.

Scammers use Google name for a Scam

SEO Team — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:02:36 +0000

If you get this email or a similar email in the mailbox, watch out.

“GOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away draws. Over £20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this Draws. No purchases of tickets were required. Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine (Googler) and other Google ancillary services. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) and attached to the following details: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12), was picked among our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds. Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search engine.

YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664 Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

To claim your give-away prize, send the following. Your full names…………….. , sex………………………….,Location……………………….Alternate e-mail address………………Your winning details………….. “

You can add this to the list together with Nigerian Fortunes. The question I have, do people really buy this? It seems like they do, because scammers continue to blast similar email to all the addresses they can get their hands on.

Google Webmaster Tools Ideas

SEO Team — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:02:06 +0000

Google Webmaster tools is open to suggestion to new products and everyone with a Webmaster account is welcome to share their ideas on what Google should create or functionalities it should add to its roster of applications.

If you do not want to submit idea, you can participate in the vote over here. Here are some examples:

“The removal tool, needs exact url’s now. I like to see a function for regex patterns. I have often problems with pages having query strings.”

“A “Remove” button next to each broken link listed in the crawl error page, rather than downloading the table and ‘adding’ each link individually when submitting a request.”

“Clearer display of webmaster guideline violations, and tips on how to fix the site to be more compliant.”

“Show me which pages are marked as duplicate content within my domain.”

“Be able to rename sitelinks and even control the sorting”

“Please make it possible to share an account! It’s a nightmare not having the possibility when you need to deal with different clients all wanting to have access.”

There a lot of good ideas as well as absurdity. What do you think Google needs to create? Go ahead and share.

Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died in 2007 at the age of 65

SEO Team — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:41 +0000

Oppppsss… Google made a big bo-bo and displayed wrong information about Michael Jackson’s death:

What happened there? Google’s snippet was pulled from Wikipedia page about Michael Jackson the writer who died in 2007 at the age of 65, instead of the pop music king. The problem has been quickly fixed by the Googlers but MANY people were exposed to the wrong information, including me.

The snippet was pulled algorithmically without human intervention, so this shows just how much of Google is automated.

On the topic of Michael Jackson.

Google wasn’t the only search engine that honored the pop star that day. Yahoo went as far as sending reporters to the hospital for the coverage of the event. They also recorded number of clicks, beating the election day from 15.1 million to 16.4 million. As a content destination with writers and editors, Yahoo took a more editorial event on the issue. They’ve included stories from major news sources on the sidebars. Yahoo also called staff who were off to help with the overload of traffic.

Bing’s performance was poor, as it showed information for Michael Jackson on the bottom of the page instead of featuring it in the most prominent spot on top of the page.

Personally I think Yahoo did the best job because they are a search engine / content destination. Google is number 2, because the algorithmic error, while Bing is still number 3.

Battle goes on!

Bing Commercials

SEO Team — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:02:57 +0000