SEO Myths
Spencer: 36 SEO myths that will not die but need to; http://j.mp/c3V4AC
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Gerrit Eicker
How Google Works
Sullivan: Would someone please explain to News Corporation how Google works? http://j.mp/cjfbc
Gerrit Eicker
Google vs. Murdoch
Google responds to Murdoch like they did before: If they tell us not to include [content], we do not; http://j.mp/3LgU1w
Gerrit Eicker
News Corporation to Block Google
Murdoch: News Corporation will probably remove its sites from the Google index; http://j.mp/3PhND7 (via @jayzon277)
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Gerrit Eicker
Mashable: “Mr. Murdoch is not ready to accept any of the changes brought forth by the Internet and the social media movement. Moreover, he doesn’t seem to understand how some parts of it work. He’s got the manpower to announce a war, but I’m afraid his army will be fighting windmills.“
Gerrit Eicker
Google vs. Hamburg Declaration
Google blogged a response to the Hamburg Declaration: ironically it gets broader attention via Google; http://tr.im/swX2
Telegraph: “A spokesman for the search giant said: ‘Google News and web search are a tremendous source of promotion for news organisations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute. – Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don’t.‘”
Hitwise: “Rupert Murdoch made an interesting statement in a Sky News interview today, when asked about news content available through search engines such as Google, Murdoch says he would consider blocking Google from indexing News Corp.’s news websites such as the Wall Street Journal. Of course it would naturally follow that I would immediately chart the amount of traffic that Google drives to Murdoch’s flagship news site. … In fact, on a weekly basis Google and Google news are the top traffic providers for WSJ.com account for over 25% of WSJ.com’s traffic. Even more telling. According to Experian Hitwise data, over 44% of WSJ.com visitors coming from Google are “new” users who haven’t visited the domain in the last 30 days.”
SEL: “Google is referring, of course, to using robots.txt or a similar protocol to keep content from being indexed. Danny Sullivan wondered aloud why Google’s critics in journalism weren’t already doing that, especially after the Wall Street Journal recently accused Google of ‘encouraging promiscuity’ online by allowing searchers to bounce from one news site to the next with no loyalty. Danny also sat down recently with Google CEO Eric Schmidt for a lengthy conversation about Google and journalism. – The debate/battle is far from over. The question now, at least where Google and Murdoch are concerned is: Who’ll blink first?“