Google has your links, but they haven’t always shown you all of them. Now they will, thanks to a recent update at Webmaster Central.
Webmasters who verify ownership will be able to see a much larger sample of links to pages than they can now with the “link” operator. Search expert Danny Sullivan said Google kept the true numbers hidden because they thought webmasters would try playing with the data to boost their rankings.
Google’s Matt Cutts also cautioned webmasters not to become too obsessed with this either: “The backlink tool doesn’t show 100% of the backlinks from Google yet, but I expect the number of links that are available to grow,” he said. “Do not assume just because you see a backlink that it’s carrying weight.”
Superbowl 41 is now over and though everyone watched the game, they also watched the commercials very closely. A good Super Bowl might get lost in your memory, but a good Super Bowl ad will be embedded in your brain for years to come.
YouTube is now doing a poll where the audience can vote on their favorite commercial. Surprisingly, the Dot-Com companys who were back big time as sponsors this year are far behind in the polls. Coming in first place is the Doritos commercial. Next is the humorous bud Light wedding commercial, and all the way down as 12th best is CareerBuilder.com. Another Dot-Com advertiser, SalesGenie, was ranked dead last … the 51st best commercial.
Then you see another at 25 the famous GoDaddy commercial. Maybe they should go back to the girls top is falling off.
Why does Wikipedia hate web comics? That’s what Howard Tayler, creator of the web comic Schlock Mercenary, wants to know.
“I love Wikipedia, but whatever passes for an editorial board over there obviously has it in for webcomics. You can learn more about the 1972 cartoon show “Josie and the Pussycats” at Wikipedia than you can at IMDB,” he said in a blog post.
Tayler noted that more than 50 web comics, including some very influential ones, have been purged from the online encyclopedia in the past month. Wikipedia’s editors think these comics are not notable.
Are social networks just a feature? That’s what blogger Om Malik suggests in a recent blog post.
Malik states, “It is time to rethink the whole notion of social networking, and start thinking of it as a feature for other online activities.”
He continues … “It is time to start thinking beyond the web-page paradigm, and think of social networking as part of a larger “experience,” one that starts to blend the best of online and offline worlds.”
Malik sees social networking “simply embedding itself into services.
WebProNews agrees and believes that social networking will be more often intetegrated within services than be a stand-alone site. Possibly Google will add community and conversation elements to its search results.
There’s something I noticed on Digg the other day that should stop all you eBusiness suits from complaining. Just take a look at this New York Times picture. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in his very Small Office! I guess it’s not the size of the office that matters after all!
