Red Cardinal » General http://www.redcardinal.ie Search Engine Optimisation Ireland Sat, 28 Mar 2015 02:22:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 One of the reasons I've invested exclusively in .com domains over the past 12…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/27-03-2015/one-of-the-reasons-ive-invested-exclusively-in-com-domains-over-the-past-12/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/27-03-2015/one-of-the-reasons-ive-invested-exclusively-in-com-domains-over-the-past-12/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:41:23 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/27-03-2015/one-of-the-reasons-ive-invested-exclusively-in-com-domains-over-the-past-12/ One of the reasons I've invested exclusively in .com domains over the past 12 months: Embedded Link Verisign: .Com Domains Have More Click Appeal In Search Results Consumers prefer to click on search results with a .com domain rather than a new domain, according to Verisign-funded research. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was […]

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/27-03-2015/one-of-the-reasons-ive-invested-exclusively-in-com-domains-over-the-past-12/feed/ 0 Can only speak for myself, but filtering search results by Country: Ireland on Google.ie…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-03-2015/can-only-speak-for-myself-but-filtering-search-results-by-country-ireland-on-google-ie/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-03-2015/can-only-speak-for-myself-but-filtering-search-results-by-country-ireland-on-google-ie/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2015 11:24:52 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-03-2015/can-only-speak-for-myself-but-filtering-search-results-by-country-ireland-on-google-ie/ Can only speak for myself, but filtering search results by Country: Ireland on Google.ie is not doing any filtering at all.  Seeing results from US and UK. [Edit] Also seeing .de .com.au and .ca results in "Results from Ireland" Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

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]]> Can only speak for myself, but filtering search results by Country: Ireland on Google.ie is not doing any filtering at all.  Seeing results from US and UK.

[Edit] Also seeing .de .com.au and .ca results in "Results from Ireland"

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-03-2015/can-only-speak-for-myself-but-filtering-search-results-by-country-ireland-on-google-ie/feed/ 3 A new referrer-spam prick to add to the other 444 wankers semalt.com and buttons…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/20-03-2015/a-new-referrer-spam-prick-to-add-to-the-other-444-wankers-semalt-com-and-buttons/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/20-03-2015/a-new-referrer-spam-prick-to-add-to-the-other-444-wankers-semalt-com-and-buttons/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:42:29 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/20-03-2015/a-new-referrer-spam-prick-to-add-to-the-other-444-wankers-semalt-com-and-buttons/ A new referrer-spam prick to add to the other 444 wankers semalt.com and buttons-for-website.com:  simple-share-buttons.com Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/20-03-2015/a-new-referrer-spam-prick-to-add-to-the-other-444-wankers-semalt-com-and-buttons/feed/ 1 Interesting, and only time will tell:http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/19-03-2015/interesting-and-only-time-will-tell%ef%bb%bf/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/19-03-2015/interesting-and-only-time-will-tell%ef%bb%bf/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:23:37 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/19-03-2015/interesting-and-only-time-will-tell%ef%bb%bf/ Interesting, and only time will tell: Embedded Link Guardian, FT, CNN and Reuters in ad deal to take on Facebook and Google Pangaea Alliance initiative will give brands access to more than 110 million online readers using programmatic advertising system Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ […]

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]]> +John Mueller quick question on HREFLANG. Can a global homepage include a hreflang value of both "en-us" and "x-default"?

Usage case is that US homepage is to target both US visitors and act as the default in cases where another locale isn't available for visitors.

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Google’s latest Recaptcha uses your IP to determine language with no way to change #EpicFail  

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/10-03-2015/googles-latest-recaptcha-uses-your-ip-to-determine-language-with-no-way-to-change/feed/ 8 Holy Cowhttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-03-2015/holy-cow/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-03-2015/holy-cow/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:18:55 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-03-2015/holy-cow/ Blast from the past. I just ended up here and some memories flooded back. To think this was back in 2007! Halfdeck kindly shared the tool he built with me back then and I remember thinking it was the bees-knees. How time flies. How much things change. Embedded Link Third Level Push (modified Siloing) For […]

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]]> To anyone still wondering if new gTLDs will have an SEO advantage due to keywords in the TLD.

As someone well versed in SEO who has fairly recently stepped into domains space I'm surpried at how poor the SEO knowledge/advice is coming from domainers.

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/28-02-2015/to-anyone-still-wondering-if-new-gtlds-will-have-an-seo-advantage-due-to-keywords/feed/ 1 "Our research found that at best, 88 percent of the ad-clicks were made by bots…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/25-02-2015/our-research-found-that-at-best-88-percent-of-the-ad-clicks-were-made-by-bots/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/25-02-2015/our-research-found-that-at-best-88-percent-of-the-ad-clicks-were-made-by-bots/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:31:25 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/25-02-2015/our-research-found-that-at-best-88-percent-of-the-ad-clicks-were-made-by-bots/ "Our research found that at best, 88 percent of the ad-clicks were made by bots on the LinkedIn ad platform, while at worst, 98 percent were from bots on the Google ad platform. Grim reading. Embedded Link oxford-biochron.com/downloads/OxfordBioChron_Quantifying-Online-Advertising-Fraud_Report.pdf Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

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]]> "Our research found that at best, 88 percent of the ad-clicks were made by bots on the LinkedIn ad platform, while at worst, 98 percent were from bots on the Google ad platform.

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]]> I'll save you 5 mins you wont get back. Basically they got hit by Penguin, and because someone had created a lot of spammy links just prior to that it must have been NSEO. Nothing mentioned about what their link profile looked like prior to this… Methinks unlikely that spammy links could hurt so quickly.

Who knows… Google Knows!

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/reading-now/feed/ 3 If you're working with HREFLANG on sites that have dupe content (e.ghttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/if-youre-working-with-hreflang-on-sites-that-have-dupe-content-e-g/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/if-youre-working-with-hreflang-on-sites-that-have-dupe-content-e-g/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2015 03:13:42 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/if-youre-working-with-hreflang-on-sites-that-have-dupe-content-e-g/ multiple EN versions) then this is by far the best resource I've come across on combining HREFLANG and rel=Canonical. The test site can be found at href-lang.com. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

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]]> multiple EN versions) then this is by far the best resource I've come across on combining HREFLANG and rel=Canonical.

The test site can be found at href-lang.com.

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/if-youre-working-with-hreflang-on-sites-that-have-dupe-content-e-g/feed/ 0 You have to be crazy to host your site off the sub of a domain hack presenting itself…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/you-have-to-be-crazy-to-host-your-site-off-the-sub-of-a-domain-hack-presenting-itself/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/you-have-to-be-crazy-to-host-your-site-off-the-sub-of-a-domain-hack-presenting-itself/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:15:03 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/24-02-2015/you-have-to-be-crazy-to-host-your-site-off-the-sub-of-a-domain-hack-presenting-itself/ You have to be crazy to host your site off the sub of a domain hack presenting itself as a legitimate TLD. Reshared post from +Ruud Hein gb.com Domains Are Now Toxic "Similarly there have been issues with TLDs like .info and .cc which have been used by spammers and black hat SEOs to game […]

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"Similarly there have been issues with TLDs like .info and .cc which have been used by spammers and black hat SEOs to game Google through the use of exact match domains, a practice that is no longer as effective as it once was."

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gb.com Domains Are Now Toxic

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-02-2015/on-the-topic-of-tools-im-really-warming-to-botify/feed/ 3 Preparing an audit for a large authority sitehttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-02-2015/preparing-an-audit-for-a-large-authority-site/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-02-2015/preparing-an-audit-for-a-large-authority-site/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2015 06:14:16 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-02-2015/preparing-an-audit-for-a-large-authority-site/ Being able to see both the phrases the site ranks for, and the URLs ranking is really useful, especially when you need to understand the site's architecture and the internal flow of authority. I can really recommend +SEMrush for these type of analyses. Definitely worth having in your toolbox if you conduct frequent site analyses in competitive niches. […]

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I can really recommend +SEMrush for these type of analyses. Definitely worth having in your toolbox if you conduct frequent site analyses in competitive niches.

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-02-2015/preparing-an-audit-for-a-large-authority-site/feed/ 2 It's great to see that Google is supporting more JSON-LD markup, particularly…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-02-2015/its-great-to-see-that-google-is-supporting-more-json-ld-markup-particularly/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-02-2015/its-great-to-see-that-google-is-supporting-more-json-ld-markup-particularly/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2015 04:36:35 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-02-2015/its-great-to-see-that-google-is-supporting-more-json-ld-markup-particularly/ It's great to see that Google is supporting more JSON-LD markup, particularly articles and videos used in the new mobile slider carousel. Embedded Link Articles Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/21-02-2015/its-great-to-see-that-google-is-supporting-more-json-ld-markup-particularly/feed/ 2 Dear +John Mueller http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/19-02-2015/dear-john-mueller-2/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/19-02-2015/dear-john-mueller-2/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:37:30 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/19-02-2015/dear-john-mueller-2/ Dear +John Mueller  I've been digging around a little into the effects of internal links pointing to 404s. I found your rather useful post from 2013 about 404s (https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/RMjFPCSs5fm) but suspect the reference for that was crawl errors derived from malformed URIs etc.  I also found an old product forum post from +Gary Illyes where he […]

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I've been digging around a little into the effects of internal links pointing to 404s. I found your rather useful post from 2013 about 404s (https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/RMjFPCSs5fm) but suspect the reference for that was crawl errors derived from malformed URIs etc.  I also found an old product forum post from +Gary Illyes where he mentioned "PageRank can only exist for live URLs that have a representation in Google's index and thus URLs that were dropped because they became an error, can't pass signals." (https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/webmasters/q-LqEpOfT1w/eLIeZXnmqooJ)

But I cannot find anything regarding the links that point to 404s.

So my question for you today, should you decide to answer: what happens to PageRank when a link points to a non-existent URL on the same domain?  Does the PR that link passes sink, or does Google ignore that link and remove it from the PageRank equation?

Thanks in advance if you can help with my research John :)

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]]> Absolutely terrible advice given by +Google Webmasters in a comment on this post (comment is in reply to +John Britsios).

Who ever posted that needs some better guidance IMO.

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]]>  I wish this wasn't a reality, and still see many fascinating developments in SEO, but at the lower levels of the industry this is a growing issue:

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/04-02-2015/slightly-sad-reflection-on-where-seo-has-ended-up/feed/ 2 After more digging I found this:http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/after-more-digging-i-found-this/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/after-more-digging-i-found-this/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:34:02 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/after-more-digging-i-found-this/ Googlebot executes JavaScript if either: A script is loaded via a <script> tag and executed right after being loaded (e.g. via an IIFE),A function is bound to and executed on the 'DOMContentLoaded' event, orA function is bound to and executed on the window.onload event. The Googlebot does NOT execute JavaScript if either: The code is […]

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]]> Googlebot executes JavaScript if either:

A script is loaded via a <script> tag and executed right after being loaded (e.g. via an IIFE),
A function is bound to and executed on the 'DOMContentLoaded' event, or
A function is bound to and executed on the window.onload event.

The Googlebot does NOT execute JavaScript if either:

The code is executed after an AJAX call returns or
The code is executed after a timeout.

Based on the above anything loaded via AJAX would not be indexed, whereas anything loaded synchronously and executed prior to or at DOMContentLoaded or window.onload.  I'm not a dev so I may have this wrong, but from the looks of things Disqus uses an XHR object to load comments (so not indexed unless you use their API to load into rendered HTML), while other techniques will render comments to DOM before onload, and these are indeed indexed by Google.

I'd still like to know if they pass signals across links rendered though. Might need to actually do some testing to find out.

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“Precomposing” a SPA may become the Holy Grail to SEO

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/after-more-digging-i-found-this/feed/ 16 Dear +Pierre Far http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/dear-pierre-far/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/dear-pierre-far/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:08:39 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/03-02-2015/dear-pierre-far/ Dear +Pierre Far  I hope you don't mind me asking a question related to Googlebot rendering, as you discussed in this blog post: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html My question is: if a blog renders comments via JS, and the rendered HTML includes followed links, should we be concerned about these links. Historically JS could be used to shield […]

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]]> Dear +Pierre Far 

I hope you don't mind me asking a question related to Googlebot rendering, as you discussed in this blog post:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html

My question is: if a blog renders comments via JS, and the rendered HTML includes followed links, should we be concerned about these links. Historically JS could be used to shield against comment spam and spam links.

To put this in context, I'm looking at a site which renders all comments via JS, but Google's cache (I understand the cache isn't always an appropriate proxy) shows all the comments and links in the text only version.

Is Google passing signals across these links?

Thanks in advance if you can help clarify.

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Reshared post from +Micah Fisher-Kirshner

To the doubters that you cannot test in SEO, here's a big middle finger to you all back by the Engineers over at +Pinterest. Nice to see another company talk about this beyond myself…

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"1. Geo-distributed crawling, where you may start seeing real (verifiable!) Googlebot user-agents crawling from IP addresses that appear to be coming from outside the USA."

"2. Language-dependent crawling, where Googlebot may set different Accept-Language headers in the HTTP request."

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/07-01-2015/there-are-some-good-takeaways-in-this-article-and-cleaning-things-up-like-this-is/feed/ 0 I think you can see where the future of data lies when you start to look at examples…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/07-01-2015/i-think-you-can-see-where-the-future-of-data-lies-when-you-start-to-look-at-examples/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/07-01-2015/i-think-you-can-see-where-the-future-of-data-lies-when-you-start-to-look-at-examples/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2015 07:36:55 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/07-01-2015/i-think-you-can-see-where-the-future-of-data-lies-when-you-start-to-look-at-examples/ I think you can see where the future of data lies when you start to look at examples like this. Structured data is fast going to become a requirement: Embedded Link BBC – Things Welcome. BBC Things provides a single reference for a growing collection of the things that matter to the BBC and our […]

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Welcome. BBC Things provides a single reference for a growing collection of the things that matter to the BBC and our audiences. It uses Semantic Web technologies that allow open access to our data and is built on top of our Linked Data Platform. The types of data we maintain about things can be …

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/07-01-2015/i-think-you-can-see-where-the-future-of-data-lies-when-you-start-to-look-at-examples/feed/ 6 Ah yes, this is exactly the analogy I've been looking for to describe  +John…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/ah-yes-this-is-exactly-the-analogy-ive-been-looking-for-to-describe-john/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/ah-yes-this-is-exactly-the-analogy-ive-been-looking-for-to-describe-john/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:51:58 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/ah-yes-this-is-exactly-the-analogy-ive-been-looking-for-to-describe-john/ Ah yes, this is exactly the analogy I've been looking for to describe  +John Mueller: "john is like a restaurant you love to eat at but some of their meals are no good – you have to know how to read the menu ;p" You must be delighted to have such glorious fans John. Google+: […]

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]]> Ah yes, this is exactly the analogy I've been looking for to describe  +John Mueller:

"john is like a restaurant you love to eat at but some of their meals are no good – you have to know how to read the menu ;p"

You must be delighted to have such glorious fans John.

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/ah-yes-this-is-exactly-the-analogy-ive-been-looking-for-to-describe-john/feed/ 1 Best AMA question/answer I've seen:http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/best-ama-questionanswer-ive-seen/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/best-ama-questionanswer-ive-seen/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:31:59 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/06-01-2015/best-ama-questionanswer-ive-seen/ Q: What daily habit do you believe has the largest positive impact on your life?ElonMuskOfficial A: Showering Embedded Link I am Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of a rocket company, AMA! • /r/IAmA What daily habit do you believe has the largest positive impact on your life? Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made […]

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/02-01-2015/if-you-are-serving-soft-country-redirects-from-your-homepage-please-make-sure-that/feed/ 0 A truly woeful study on TLD recognition from moz.comhttp://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-12-2014/a-truly-woeful-study-on-tld-recognition-from-moz-com/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-12-2014/a-truly-woeful-study-on-tld-recognition-from-moz-com/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:41:14 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/22-12-2014/a-truly-woeful-study-on-tld-recognition-from-moz-com/ A truly woeful study on TLD recognition from moz.com. Just about every question introduces bias, and many of the options provided would be chosen for safety. Not having an "I don't know" option for the "CcTLD's impact on ecommerce" question was bizarre. Sadly more and more weak content getting pushed out on Moz. Less, content […]

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]]> A truly woeful study on TLD recognition from moz.com. Just about every question introduces bias, and many of the options provided would be chosen for safety. Not having an "I don't know" option for the "CcTLD's impact on ecommerce" question was bizarre.

Sadly more and more weak content getting pushed out on Moz. Less, content and more quality is what they need now.

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Reshared post from +Jeff Jockisch

Want to create your own Knowledge Graph?

DeepDive's goal is to extract lots of structured data from unstructured data sources.

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Internet addresses registered in new gTLDs are holding their own against — and in some cases outperforming — comparable addresses registered in legacy domains like .COM, according to new data that provides the best window yet into the operational functionality of new gTLD addresses. A question on everyone’s mind in the run up to new gTLDs was: how would new domains perform in the wild against legacy domains on the key criteria of search?

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]]> http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/11-12-2014/more-gtld-rank-better-than-com-spew-from-an-impeccably-impartial-owner/feed/ 2 Òh come on Bill Hartzer (apologies this doesn't seem to be from Bill at all,…http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/11-12-2014/oh-come-on-bill-hartzer-apologies-this-doesnt-seem-to-be-from-bill-at-all/ http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/11-12-2014/oh-come-on-bill-hartzer-apologies-this-doesnt-seem-to-be-from-bill-at-all/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:29:32 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/11-12-2014/oh-come-on-bill-hartzer-apologies-this-doesnt-seem-to-be-from-bill-at-all/ Òh come on Bill Hartzer (apologies this doesn't seem to be from Bill at all, and I now see it's an article from 6 weeks ago) surely you can do better than this? Did you bother to check whether sites on new gTLD had been migrated/redirected from previous domains onto the new domains? And as to […]

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]]> Òh come on Bill Hartzer (apologies this doesn't seem to be from Bill at all, and I now see it's an article from 6 weeks ago) surely you can do better than this?

Did you bother to check whether sites on new gTLD had been migrated/redirected from previous domains onto the new domains?

And as to this notion that bolding of the TLD in display signals anything – isn't just as likely that the process Google uses to bold words in URL/snippet simply applies same to TLD, and Google sees no reason to change this? What makes you so sure that Google takes any notice of TLD?

This, as with other recent "studies" of gTLD ranking, is terribly flawed.

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Reshared post from +Bill Slawski

*Has SEO Changed Forever with an Algorithm that Replaces and Improves upon PageRank?

A mix of Kleinberg's Hubs and Authorities, a dash of Topic Sensitive PageRank, Elements that impact Sites in some instances rather that just pages, link analysis that looks at number of inward and external links, and representative queries for pages.  This seems like it was written by a search quality engineer and a member of Google's web ranking team. A peek at LinkedIn confirms that. Hmmm.

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A Replacement for PageRank? – SEO by the Sea
A Google patent that might possibly be PageRank’s replacement, including a hubs and authorities element, a topic sensitive scoring element, an on-site score, and a global score that the onsite score might be combined with.

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