Giedrius Majauskas blog

Google and behavioral analysis

I have read this article about google behavioral analysis, but had no time to post my thoughts. To sumarise, results of experiments are discussed with 2 implications:
a) google uses click on SERP’s analysis to change placements for the results ( It is discussed in the google patent as well)
b) Google uses Analytics analysis for modifying […]

June 14th, 2007 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Should bought links be counted?

I have read a very interesting post in webmasterworld about pros and const link buying
There are many oppinions. From the Search Engine point of view bought links skew the results when counted as they are not necessary relevant or “best” resources in terms of quality. However, the webmaster spend time (and money) to have them […]

August 26th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Databases and SEO

Search engines love human written content. This is true for all of them, but especially for Google. This is one of the reason for recruiting text analysis specialists and developing context analysis tools. It is asumed, that synonymes and overall context of the citing gives greater weight for the link. Google can distinguish set of […]

August 22nd, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Page rank update -2005 july

New Google page rank update, couple of days earlier than predicted, is on the way. There are couple of slight changes in SERPS as well, but lets wait till we see full impact in results.

July 15th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Urchin Statistic service

Recently, Google purchased urchin - web statistic monitoring company. The price for their services went down to 199$/Month and is very nice. Thus, we decided to give it a try.
The first impression is that the software is really easy to use and quite informative. Site orverlay, ecomerce analysis are really necessary tools.
However, there are still […]

July 7th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Designing Your Web Site to Maximize Traffic

Today I have received Sitepro newsletter on
Designing Your Web Site to Maximize Traffic. I like these newsletters, but sometimes I can not just agree with them. Perhaps the reason is that they are targeted towards marketers and not web developers. For example, JavaScript is not evil, when it is used wisely. Yes, crawlers can […]

June 27th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

New google update or some changes ?

Yesterday evening I have seen some changes in SERPs. Site, that has been hit bad by last couple updates is back in the listings, although not fully recovered its placements yet. But we will hope for better.

June 17th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Google sitemaps

Recently google has provided a new feature for webmasters - Google sitemaps, currently Beta. The webmasters have the ability to submit a xml map of the system to Google. They claim that the map will help to provide searchers with fresher results and better coverage of the site. Python based tools are provided […]

June 10th, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments

Search engines: are they ready for RSS?

Feed based technologies conquer today’s internet, especially in personal journalism, blogging and news markets. The searchers want to know breaking news as soon as possible and the ability to follow some events without the need to revisit the website each hour. The RSS/ATOM technologies are a must for sites, publishing the news. The first to […]

May 31st, 2005 Posted by Giedrius | SEM | no comments