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A (Google official) blog post about scraped content on a scraper site.
But the original does rank first.
Although not in blog search.
(But that appears to be because the post isn’t indexed in blogsearch at all. Because rivva.de is listed in its place?
It’s been a busy month. I spoke at some conferences, organized some local meetups, put together and moderated a day for developers about search, and wrote some stuff. I have a bunch of stuff coming up for this blog, but in the meantime, I thought I’d post a quick recap here of everything else.
emetrics
I was on a panel with Avinash Kaushik, which was great fun. I’m sure you already are subscribed to his RSS feed, and if not, what are you waiting for? Mel over at Microsoft adCenter quoted me a bit loosely from the session. I think I was replying to someone who was thinking they could perhaps buy a site, replace all the content with completely different stuff, and keep the credit for all the older site’s PageRank and incoming links. But it doesn’t really make sense that if msnbc.com had a bunch of incoming links for being a great news site and was sold to someone who turend it into a site about cute cats that all those old news links would help the new cat site.
advance08
I’m working on a big write up of Bill Gate’s talk at Microsoft’s advertising summit and my tour of their house of the future (just like they’d show during the Tom and Jerry cartoons!), and hopefully will have it out in the next few days.
Convergence Vancouver
I gave a talk on universal search and discussed how to use universal search as a new opportunity to connect with customers. What is your audience most interested in? You don’t want to create a bunch of videos and images just to try to blanket the results page — think about what will provide real value to your audience and focus on building universal results that will bring you more qualified traffic and return visitors. I also talked about how the changes to the search results page mean that you may need to look at new metrics. Ranking position and page views alone can’t tell the whole story.
SMX Developer Day
I had a great time yesterday moderating the developer track at SMX. The speakers were great and I particularly enjoyed hearing the case studies and seeing code samples. Look for some of that soon on Jane and Robot. Thanks to everyone who participated (by speaking or attending).
Jane and Robot Web Development and Search Meetups
Speaking of Jane and Robot, we held two meetups in Seattle in May. They were great fun so we’re going to keep doing them around once a month. We’re going to focus on a particular topic each time and leave lots of time for questions, site reviews, and chatting. If you’re a developer in the Seattle area and there’s a particular topic you’d like to hear about, let me know! Looks like the next one will likely be June 25th on the east side, so stay tuned for details.
Writing
I’ve managed to find some time to write a few things lately. Earlier tonight, I gave my thoughts on the Yahoo! SearchMonkey searcher experience. Late last week, I wrote about how the search experience is changing and how marketers can use that to their advance. I also wrote about implementing images on Jane and Robot. We’ve got another article that will likely go up sometime tomorrow.
Apparently, it’s magical.
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it's magical
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