The Wikipedia blackout is a big surprise to many users of the web’s free encyclopedia as they restrict access to their pages for 24 in protest of the SOPA.
Likely be a huge inconvenience to many loyal users, but it is for a good cause. But for those who cannot live without Wikipedia even for a day, here is how you can use it courtesy of a friendly search engine, Google.
Here’s how.
1. Do a normal search on google, for instance, Puerto Rico
2. On Google’s search result page, find the wikipedia link, click it.. you will get a black screen
3. Hit the back button to take you back to Google’s search results page, then copy the URL as you see on google, in this case.. “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico”
4. Still on Google, on the space above, type cache: and then paste the copied URL, it would appear as cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico.. then hit enter
5. You will now see that Wikipedia page on Puerto Rico, courtesy of Google
If you thought this was cool, please tweet, share, send to others who can’t wait to for Wikipedia to get back online.
Google has been very busy lately.. levying penalties on JC Penney and Overstock just weeks apart and making some tweaks in their algorithm which is said to devalue certain types of pages.
I have been asked about this a couple of times and if you have not read the stories; you can simply Google them, the answers are all there.
The JC Penney incident is a clear case of acquiring a massive amount of links on low value pages. There can be many interpretations of what love value pages are but in my own words, these are pages that have nothing to do with the pages they link to, and likely offer very little information and are of very little value and usefulness to human visitors, if at all human visitors do find those pages. The truth is, a lot don’t. They are merely meant for Google’s bots to crawl and find.
The Overtsock case is also another example of a site getting a good number of links but this time, a lot of them coming from a .edu site, which are said to be more valuable in worth. Not only that, Overstock was actively soliciting for those links by offering discounts to those who did link to them. In the former example with JC Penney, they were simply buying the links. Either way, both companies were clearly actively involved in acquiring links that would benefit their rankings on Google.
Google does not want its system manipulated as it strives to deliver to its users the most accurate and deserving results. Both cases are examples of active manipulation or involvement in the link building process for the purpose of improving rankings.
So if you are actively involved in spurring our link growth or managing it, should you be worried? I say, NO.We need to be actively proactive when it comes to getting links and how people link to us.. but staying within certain limits.
You want your products, services, offers, and content to be found and it will not get found if you do not manage the process of acquiring links. So to be on the safe side here are some tips.
- Quality always over quantity. The best links are always those that are found on good quality pages, that offer value to readers, related to the content being linked to, that get visitors and best of all that have visitors that click through those links over to the pages that get linked to.
- If you find sites that have linked to you and you believe they could use better phrases to use as anchor text, contact them, thank them, then ask if they would not mind changing the link to the proper text to use. Optionally you can offer something of value in return.
- When buying links.. yes it is not bad to buy links or pay for ads.. this is a good way of getting traffic to your site. But you need to ensure that the links are “nofollow-ed” so that they do not pass over attribution to the page being linked to, thus affecting how Google would rank that page.
To do well on its search results page, don’t game Google.. just work with it!
When people in the Philippines go to , and type this phrase, online marketing consultant… this blog comes up in the top spot, number 1 just as you see in the image below.
That was a few days ago though.. the big question is, is it still number 1?
Did you ever wonder how many clicks each spot on Google’s top 10 search results usually gets?
A study on Eye-Tracking Analysis of SE Users’ Behavior conducted in Cornell University reveals the following data, which means number 1 is still the best spot to be on Google’s organic rankings.
But there are no guarantees to getting to number 1 and there could be too much competition.
Well, that is why multiple number 1 rankings for very targeted long tail search phrases that are dialed in to a search engine user’s intentions are better than general keywords that have higher search volumes.
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Advertising on TV networks has always been a little complicated and expensive… it actually still is! It can be a long process that involves too many people… there are the people that put your ad together then there are the people who recommend the right places to air your TV ad and make those placements and book your TV spots.
Today, Google AdWords allows you to book your ads on TV networks all by yourself. Watch the video below to see how it works.
I thought of putting together this brief video and show you how you can use the Google Search Engine effectively. If you spend a lot of time researching online or searching the internet for something you want to learn more about, you probably are familiar with Google and how it can sometimes be frustrating not to be able to find what you are looking for, instead you get overloaded with related or even non related listings, which are probably not exactly what you are looking for.
Google actually has the most advanced system in place that tries to give you a list of websites or web pages that might have what you are looking for, based on the keywords you type in to the engine. A few months ago Google rolled out with a new feature called “Search Options” which helps you find exactly what you might be looking for.
In this brief Google search tutorial video I will give you some tips and tricks on how to do searches and I will also run you through the new Search Options feature.
Here is a quick summary of what you find in the video.
- put keywords that you are using in quotes ” “, that way you get a list of web pages with your searched phrase in their exact order
- use Search Options to specifically find the kind of content you are looking for, whether these are images, videos, news, blogs, updates, books and forums; and even sort them further by freshness
- this tip is not mentioned on the video… if you want to search a specific website for a specific phrase or content you think they might have, type the following site:websitedomain.com “keyword phrase”
, for instance on a recipe site like allrecipes.com, if you want to find meatloaf recipes, just go to Google and type site:allrecipes.com “meatloaf recipes”
and the resulting page will be a list of pages only from allrecipes.com that have that phrase “meatloaf recipes” in it
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