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Bill Slawski
Personal blog · seobythesea.combusinessweb
Bill Slawski's personal blog at seobythesea.com covers business and web. Since 2008, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Google's +1 patent”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-13
- Google's +1 patent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-04
- Google Improves Image Search with Freebase Identifiers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-14
- /2010/05/googles-reasonable-surfer-how-the-value-of-a-link-may-differ-based-upon-link-and-document-features-and-user-data/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-11
What Hacker News says?
Google has already built this, but it definitely isn't perfect. http://www.seobythesea.com/2014/10/google-fact-questions-ent...
Comment linking /2014/10/google-fact-questions-entity-references-unstructured-data/
on “Better Language Models and Their Implications”Submitted Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents as a story · 142 points
HN discussion>> Twitter links has no SEO juice Besides using Twitter to: - build your network and following, - Twitter can aid in brand/product mentions - Some reason to believe Twitter links are followed by the search engines, so help with indexation and discovery.[1] - Some reason to believe Author/Agent/Identity rank of social profiles will start playing a role.[2] - Finally, there are sites who add Twitterfeeds to the author…
Comment linking /2011/11/agent-rank-or-google-plus-as-an-identity-service-or-digital-signature/
on “SEO tricks from Patio11”Submitted Using Rare Words to Estimate Search Engine Index Sizes as a story · 29 points
HN discussionGoogle personalizes results quite extensively these days, largely based on your location. Google believes based on that, and probably your previous searching and browsing habits, that those .co.uk sites are more relevant to your interests. After all, this is the company that has patented and is developing the idea of "Parameterless Searches", where they assume what you want to know before you even ask... (more info…
Comment linking /2013/07/google-parameterless-searches/
on “Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals”Submitted Google Improves Image Search with Freebase Identifiers as a story · 19 points
HN discussionIts very easy to get upset at Lodsys for being scummy patent trolls but what about companies like Facebook see: http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=3365 IMHO they are just as bad because if they filled for these patents then eventually they will decide to enforce them.
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on “We want software patents abolished”Submitted A Hint of What Google's Social Network Might Look Like as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttps://searchengineland.com/google-ebay-penalty-cost-197031 This relates to the ebay penalty. I think one of SEland's founders actually left to take a job at Google as an evangelist. You can probably search for "ebay seo penalty" and find more references. Other notable penalties that were well documented include RapGenius and GV backed Thumbtack and Nest, which quickly had their penalties reversed if I recall corre…
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on “How can we know if paid search advertising works?”Submitted How to rank user generated content as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis definitely is important in terms of how much "value" Google assigns to links on the page, if they can identify where they render. They got a patent for varying the amount of page rank that flows to a link based on how likely the "reasonable surfer" is to click it. So in terms of flowing Pagerank to a bunch of high value landing pages via a slew of footer links, it's game over. My only question is how frequently…
Comment linking /2010/05/googles-reasonable-surfer-how-the-value-of-a-link-may-differ-based-upon-link-and-document-features-and-user-data/
on “Googlebot now makes POST requests via AJAX”Submitted PageRank 2020 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI hope this doesn't seem self serving, but seomoz.org has some of the highest quality information you can find on SEO. In addition to that, I'd suggest articles on http://searchengineland.com/ - they offer high quality content and news in the industry. Anything written by Vanessa Fox on SEL is usually great. Guides like Excel for SEO shows some of the basic stuff we do: http://www.distilled.net/excel-for-seo/ For hi…
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on “From Here On Out, Do What You Love”Submitted The First PageRank Patent and the Newest as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is the failure of google. I stopped using google about 6 months ago and started using duckduckgo. But at the time I stopped using google, one of the reasons I stopped was that the quality was so low. There is a difference between quality and freshness. I agree some SERPS on DDG look higher quality, but then when you dig down in the results you find out why: They are all safe choices. They could be pages from 20…
Comment linking /2012/01/named-entity-detection-in-queries/
on “The Web Is A Mess”Submitted How Google May Rewrite Your Search Terms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFurther reading: Techniques for approximating the visual layout of a web page and determining the portion of the page containing the significant content http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se... Automatic Visual Segmentation Of Webpages http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... Techniques for approximating the visual layout of a web page and determining the portion of the page con…
Comment linking /2011/02/how-a-search-engine-might-identify-the-functions-of-blocks-in-web-pages-to-improve-search-results/
on “Does the Google Bot index css hidden divs? yes.”Submitted Splog - Google changing how searched for Blogs? [PATENT GRANTED] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGooglebot and some other search engine crawlers also crawl css stylesheet files, I have seen evidence in my server log files. There are several patents describing how a search engine might analyse the visual appearance and structure of a website, with a special view to give some parts of the page content (the main content) a higher weight or priority then the rest (like footer text and navigation). I would expect th…
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on “Does the Google Bot index css hidden divs? yes.”Submitted Google's +1 patent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's very likely what you did made ranking a correlative rather than causative effect. Most of these comments were probably no-follow, and even if not, devalued b/c below the fold - reasoning: the Reasonable Surfer patent - http://www.seobythesea.com/2010/05/googles-reasonable-surfer... I agree that this can be helpful, but the way it is framed in this article is dangerous, because it can easily be misinterpreted.
Comment linking /2010/05/googles-reasonable-surfer-how-the-value-of-a-link-may-differ-based-upon-link-and-document-features-and-user-data/
on “The Really Easy SEO Link Building Strategy For Startups”Submitted How Google Might Disambiguate Entities with Same Names in Queries and Pages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis Yahoo patent from a few years before seems very similar to this concept: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... Do notice the Apple logo on the side of one of the sketches: http://www.seobythesea.com/wp-images/yahoo-virtual-reality-g... And the talk of virtual reality games (without actually building them): A virtual World Of Warcraft-type overlay can be generated that is superimposed o…
Comment linking /2010/04/yahoo-exploring-virtual-reality/
on “Patent application – Head mounted display”Submitted Google Acquires 55 Yahoo Patent Filings – SEO by the Sea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis article startled me into checking its publication date. The claim is so clearly obvious for the outlined applications (camera purchases, vacation bookings, movie grosses), it seems unreasonable to think nobody was doing this. Here's an essay on "trendspotting", suggesting the concept came into vogue in the late '90s: http://www.radosh.net/writing/trends.html And here's an article citing analysis of AltaVista qu…
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on “What Can Search Predict?”Submitted Patterns Among Templates Lead to Clues About Entities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Granted Patent on Invisible Text and Hidden Links as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google viral score patent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Google Rank-Modifying Spammers Patent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Patent Granted on PageRank Sculpting and Opinion Passing Links as a story · 2 points
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