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Comment on July Search Quality Updates by Jonah Stein

Jonah Stein — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:46:55 +0000

Sorry, all I did was sort through the 87 to find the search quality updates. As for comments, these cryptic notes from Google don’t mean anything until you see the SERP shuffle. Sure, I could say be fresher or more trusted or something but that is just cliche.

Comment on July Search Quality Updates by Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:24:58 +0000

That’s all? No comment on them?

WTF

Comment on FAIL – Victim of Negative SEO Still Suffering by Jonah Stein

Jonah Stein — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:44:36 +0000

In fact, Google has left us hanging — in the wind. To date, all we have is an automated response saying we have too many spammy links to remove the penalty.

Comment on FAIL – Victim of Negative SEO Still Suffering by Marie Haynes

Marie Haynes — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:41:36 +0000

You left us hanging. Did you manage to get the penalty removed?

Comment on SEO Means Optimize For Users by On Page Optimization: Semantic Keyword Linking | Symphony of Search

On Page Optimization: Semantic Keyword Linking | Symphony of Search — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:51:15 +0000

[...] the difference above? The second choice is much more natural sounding, and Google likes natural human-optimized web pages. That’s right – optimizing for readers and optimizing for Google is the same [...]

Comment on Siem Reap Visitors Guide by Alfons Van Hoof

Alfons Van Hoof — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:27:16 +0000

You’re right. Ara is just great.
I just returned from Siem Reap, where I spent almost one month from mid-May to mid-June.
While preparing for the trip, I read this blog and wrote to Ara. The day after my arrival I met her, and she was my personal guide and assistant for the entire time. She’s a great person and her knowledge is just invaluable. To give you just one example: the first week (when I was working over the internet from the guest house), she a huge straw archery target for me. Cost her multiple trips in the countryside to follow up on the progress, even while she wasn’t too sure about what I really needed. But the target was delivered on time and of very good quality. She really knows to ‘think out of the box’.
During each weekend we toured the temples, aided by a regular tuk-tuk driver, who is now working most of the time for Ara. She knows the temples in and out. I also introduced here to ‘geocaching’. Took us a while to find a cache (many of them have just disappeared) and it was great to see her happiness when, at our third try, she discovered her first cache.
On weekdays I was mostly working, but nearly every evening Ara joined me for dinner, and quite often we went together for a body massage too. I also took her out one time to the Paul Dubrule Hotel School for a gastronomical lunch. And we had some great time visiting the nearby Cultural Village too.
Meanwhile she has given up on all but one of the odd little jobs to keep alive. She is still working as housemaid/nanny for a local family. Basically she takes care of the house whenever she has time, and is due back by 10 or 10.30 pm to guard the children, and bring them to school early morning. This gives here a secured place to live, as well as all the freedom she needs to cater for her customers visiting Angkor.
To provide here with some financial security, particularly during the low season, I have promised her some monthly financial support for the next 12 months, and at the same time I’m helping here to get her started with a ‘real’ travel agency.
I made her open a bank account, and arranged for a Moneybookers account too. Both are now in operation. Next step, I’m trying to build her a website (www.makaratravels.com) – still writing on that, but the basic framework should be up and running in a couple of weeks – so there’s something more tangible to promote. I know very well that ‘having’ a website is only a first step, but hope to use it to spread the word and do some marketing on it. If I’m lucky I’ll go back to Siem Reap by the end of this year and give her some more ‘on the grounds’ support to bring it all to the next stage. I really wish to see her getting on her own feet and making enough money running her travel business. I have some experience in this field (running a part-time motorcycle tours business in Sri Lanka), have a bit of free time to spend (I’m now mainly working freelance as a translator), and in future may start dividing my time between Cambodia and Sri Lanka to help her grow the business.
So, all of you who have met Ara in the past, and enjoyed having her as a guide, please help me spread the word. I’m sure you would be equally delighted to see her blossoming and realizing her dreams!
Regards,
Alfonso

Comment on We All Agree – CAPTCHA SUCKS by N Brown

N Brown — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:51:44 +0000

If you use Captcha then I will not be using your site anymore fed up witt wasting my time doing those stupid things 2 or 3 times.

Comment on Google Scraping, Cloaking, Diverting Traffic by Jonah Stein

Jonah Stein — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:01:45 +0000

Look at the difference between the display URL and where Google takes you for the result. The fact that Google is hosting this content instead of linking to an external source is quite unusual. Add to it the fact that Google is showing this in the OneBox and content publishers have reason to be concerned.

Comment on Google Scraping, Cloaking, Diverting Traffic by Ben Wills

Ben Wills — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:27:16 +0000

They’re not scraping. Wordnet is a lexical database can be used by commercial companies, free of charge, so long as proper citation is given: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/publications/#Citing_WordNet

Ben

Comment on Why Do We Care About Pagerank by photo sync ipad

photo sync ipad — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:23:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing…I don’t care too much about it, but having a few green bar will still make me feel excited, hehe…