Google is using Twitter

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What's happening? Join today to start receiving google's tweets. That is what Google is doing.

See: http://twitter.com/google

op de volgende link trof ik ook enkele interessante feiten aan:

http://www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/20070326_google_loves_twitter/

Dat Twitter in korte tijd ongelooflijk populair is geworden moge duidelijk zijn. Twitter was vorige week zelfs zo populair dat ze tijdelijk onbereikbaar waren. Twitter is echter niet alleen populair bij online marketing guru’s zoals Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel en Marco Derksen maar ook bij Google. Van alle drie de bovenstaande Guru’s komt hun Twitter nu al op de eerste Google pagina terecht wanneer er op hun naam gezocht wordt. En dat terwijl Marco bijvoorbeeld pas op 16 Maart is begonnnen met Twitteren. Scobles Twitter staat op de 7e positie onder zijn naam, Rubel’s Twitter zelfs al op de 5e positie. Een mogelijke verklaring kan liggen in de hoge frequentie van postings en de enorme hoeveelheid links die naar elkaars pagina’s worden gemaakt. Ik ben benieuwd welke lessen hier uit getrokken kunnen worden door Search Engine Optimizers. In ieder geval is het geen slecht idee om relevante namen alvast te registreren want het is duidelijk dat je met een Twitter op een relatief makkelijke manier veel Google-juice kan krijgen

BING?

A new searchengine is coming soon. See http://www.bing.com/ which will give you access as soon as it is online. The demovideo at http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html gives you a glimps of what is coming. Microsoft tries to beat Google. We will see what the public thinks of this soon.....

Google Analytics

Google Analytics offers a weath of possibilities when one wants to know all about a website. The only problem I see is that it is a commercial product that Google wan'ts to promote and when you use it and like it it might cause a problem of becoming dependent on the system. They made the analyses for free when your site doesn't generate too much traffic. You can monitor several sites from one console. Webdesignes and webmasters for sure will love this tool but eventually will need a subscription to have access to the data. But I must confess, the interface Google Analytics has designed is a fantastic tool for sure.

Details: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Off course I started the tracking tool from Google Analytics also on this blog. We will see what it bring and I will report on it later too.

Google Page Rank Update

Posted by David Peralty as Blogging News, General

Don’t get too excited it will take a while for everything to settle, but it looks like it is Google Page Rank update time again. This means your blog could shift around in search results leading to more or less traffic. For those of you getting higher page ranks you might be able to leverage it for some more money, for those of you dropping in page rank, you will probably not be able to make as much money through things like banner and text link advertising.
Good luck to everyone, and may your page ranks be high.

Source: Problogger.net

Motigo - Overview visitors 31-10-2007

While Statcounter only registers the last 500 hits, the Motigo counter saves all hits and therefore becomes interesting when one is searchibf for historical information. The longer a site is in the air, the more interesting the statistical data gets because one can make prognoses. Here is an overview of the countries visitors come from. Seems like they come also from abroad now. Even some dozens of hits from www.google.com themselves (in California, USA), so they are reading this too.....

Google Blog Search

The www.google.com takes some time before a new website of blog is published. Sometimes days. The Blogs system of Google works quite quick. My last postings already can be found. All words and especially the labels are indexed so quickly, I can see the list only a few hours later. Have a look and search for something at:

www.google.com/blogsearch

PageRank - Measuring

When you know what PageRank is you will wonder what the Pagerank of your site is. For this new site it is off course still ZERO. But I measured it for an other site I have in the air (http://www.iuoma.org/) which I measured through one of the tools available for us:

http://www.checkpagerank.com/

The results are quite interesting. It seems it has a 4/10 score

PageRanks - Theory

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.

Introduction

Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine.
The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to play a central role in many of our web search tools.

PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

Integrity

Google's complex automated methods make human tampering with our search results extremely difficult. And though we may run relevant ads above and next to our results, Google does not sell placement within the results themselves (i.e., no one can buy a particular or higher placement). A Google search provides an easy and effective way to find high-quality websites that contain information relevant to your search.

©2007 Google , source : http://www.google.nl/technology/

Add URL to Google

Because a site has to be found the URL has to be indexed in the major search-engines. There are expensive tools for this, but a first right step is to report your new site to Google:

http://www.google.nl/addurl/?hl=nl&continue=/addurl

Offcourse there is a special box where you have to type in a code. This is to prevent programms to send constantly URL's to the Google database that need indexing.

Google is a source for other search-engines as well. I'll come back to the theme search-engines soon. A first indexing gets into the system, and it might start to cause visitors that come tou your site because of specific words that you mention on your site.