The automotive world can get pretty shady, but it still came as a surprise when Yahoo was recently caught “serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users.” This is known as “cloaking,” and it took place on the Yahoo Autos site.
A statement made by Google recently bagged lots of critical feedbacks on a WebmasterWorld thread. In a Google update on spam reporting Google claimed that they will investigate all bad SERP reports.
Yahoo! is trying to get its act together with regard to click fraud. The first fall out of Yahoo!'s efforts is banning of foreign site visitors from YPN ads. Yahoo! is intent on restricting internal ad frauds by barring visitors from certain countries from viewing the ads.
A WebmasterWorld thread informs about Microsoft's claims to take over the Internet search. An article on NYTimes reports about Microsoft's future plans.
A couple of weeks back a major Microsoft AdCenter bug costed advertisers huge amounts. This bug made the advertisers pay a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for. However, this bug was soon fixed and before the advertisers could even raise their brows they were paid back.
Brett Tabke recently opened up a forum thread on WebmasterWorld titled: Yahoo SERPS vs Google SERPS - If you can’t beat em - join em?. Brett also provides a screen shot comparing the results screens of the two engines.
The issue of website cloaking bubbled to the surface of the search engine optimization world again, as a handful of noteworthy names debated the tactic and WebmasterWorld's alleged use of it over time.
A major Microsoft AdCenter bug costs advertisers to shell out huge amounts. This bug makes the advertisers may a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for.
A Webmasterworld thread addressing the same issue has tremendous amount of posts where affected advertisers have addressed the situation.
My daily spend increased almost 10-fold from $140 to over $1350 yesterday!
A WebmasterWorld thread inquires how the sites are ranked within the Yahoo! Directory. Search Engine Roundtable explains in a post that the sites are ranked in Yahoo! Directory on the basis of popularity.
Search Engine Roundtable says:
Search Engine Roundtable has reported the fixing of Google AdWords CPC Price Gouge Bug. The bug pushed up minimum bids to unnatural highs for some keywords. Webmasterworld members have reported relative normalcy over the weekend.
my accout is 75% or more back to normal.
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