We just fixed an instance of a domain which appeared fine when visited directly, but when coming from the search results, all users were being redirected.
Because of my recent personal virus experience redirecting my visits from search results I was thrown off at first, but it turned out that all users coming from search engines to that website were being redirected in a completely different way.
My trip to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was unlike last year, or any other years I’ve gone, because I cut myself short on time.
The organization of the show changed quite a bit, and in the past, all of the breakthrough inventions were situated in one giant hall, over at the Sands Expo Center.
We’ve had another web hosting customer screw things up for everyone else on their shared mail server by sending unsolicited e-mail, which is against our terms of service.
I’ve written about this before, more than once, and this user has received no warnings, gets no second chances, and their web hosting account, including all e-mail service has been permanently removed from our system.
Google is all over the map in the way it displays search results, but it looks like SEO, web-hosting, and web design are not!
Well, technically they’re still “on the map” but the map is not showing up any more in Google searches.
Yes, in case you missed the news, Google local map results are not being shown any more for web designers, for search marketing firms, or web hosting.
Before Google’s announcement that the speed at which your site loads for visitors “matters”, we’d all heard it said repeatedly that it did NOT matter for organic rankings, but that it may someday, and it seems that day arrived early last month.
I’ve frequently been asked if I can point to a good example of Twitter marketing, and it’s rare, but I saw one first hand this weekend.
Sunday afternoon, I happened to notice that Gary Vaynerchuck twittered that he would offer free shipping for the entire year of 2010, if the New York Jets were to beat the Indianapolis Colts!
Yesterday afternoon PDXTC had a report that a website we were hosting was down, but the server administrators said that it was up.
An hour later, we had a second report of another website down, and the admins claimed it was up as well, and that’s where I got involved.
There were a few changes at Google this month which I’ve been pointing out to clients, so I’m posting them here too.
I added the month to my title, because I expect we’ll be seeing a lot more of these types of game changers as time goes on.
I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302′s.
Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless.
In this short video I’ll show you exactly what not to do -( besides assume that WordPress will work the way it’s supposed to).
I was 45 minutes from leaving for the airport, moving stuff to my laptop, and tying up loose ends before traveling to Affiliate Convention. The last thing I needed was a computer problem.
Update 12/8 – I just got back, and it’s not fixed! Please see the bottom of this post where I’ll continue to add notes about resolution, or so see if I give up 
After a few improvements based on suggestions by users, my SEO app for the Iphone has been updated again, on March 10 2010 with both the original and free “lite”versions… Get them here!
What’s new? Just about everything that anyone asked for, including:
- Pinch zoom now works in the results
- Auto-Rotation when you rotate your iPhone
Doing a search the other day I was stunned to see a new interface from Google showing me tabbed results, with other relevant search phrases lined up across the top.
I had been using a brand new laptop, so I walked over to my main computer to get a screen shot, and I wasn’t able to re-create them. I went back to the laptop, did a search, and *poof* they were gone.
