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Countdown To Google Webmaster Chat

It's almost time for webmasters to glue their ears to a phone once more; Google plans to hold another free live chat this afternoon.

Oops, Google Malware Review Form Working Again

Webmasters this week were greeted with an "oops, not working" error when they tried using Google's Malware Review form. The form that was introduced last year in August to help webmasters solve issues of malware or badware, faced some technical problems this week and this was first reported at around 1 am on May 15th.

Google SERP Changes Result in Traffic Spikes

A huge number of webmasters are reporting a significant increase in traffic. Some even report the hike to be as big as double. All the masters who have been positively affected by the change are delighted. This hike seems to follow a decrease in traffic by half around 20th December 2007. In order to get the correct count some Webmasters have used the site: operator.

Feeds Out Of Google Search Results

Searches at Google.com won't turn up RSS or Atom feeds, with the exception of podcasts, as Google makes a change to improve the user experience.

Paid Links Still Evil To Google

Google continues to beat the drum about passing PageRank through paid links as Matt Cutts weighed in on the topic with another request that webmasters use the 'nofollow' attribute for them.

Study: Webmasters Prefer Google

Based on a study of 7,500 Web sites conducted by Penn State University, Google emerged as Webmasters' favorite.

GoDaddy & Google Partner on Webmaster Tools

Go Daddy and Google collaborate to offer easy access to Webmaster Tools, informs the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

Webmasters: Where'd My Links Go, Google?

The webmaster forums are lit up with reports that the Google Webmaster Toolbar is showing zero backlinks, and some are reporting a decrease in traffic shortly after.

Building Your Attention, Traffic, Trust, & Subscriber Base

Some Things Only Spread Because Who is Behind Them I recently created an Internet marketing mind map and published it on my tools subdomain with a link to it from tools.seobook.com, but nobody mentioned it. A few days later I blogged about it on SeoBook.com and dozens of webmasters linked to it. Same publisher, same content, drastically different results...because one channel has attention while the other does not.

Cutts Pokes Fun At Keyword Stuffer

Crying about Google ignoring your keyword stuffed web pages just gives Matt Cutts and the rest of the SEO world something to gleefully mock.