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05.9.2012

Fix My Website, Blog Network Blowup, Penguin, and the state of the scam of search…

Google is a big bully and cry baby, who can't at all algorythemically determine a blog network from a hole in the wall, as well, links are the very fabric, DNA of the internet, and they are still a time out from being able to accurately or decently determine how to appropriately value links and link structures.

What is a natural linking structure and quality content....I keep hearing "quality content" and want to throw up on each page that has those words on it...    Flea Markets - What's one man's trash is another's treasure - quality for one person is garbage to another...

XRumer - Press Release
Scrapebox - blog network
Spun Content - Depending how bad - Comedy, Parody, ESL(english second language) writers...

Of course all of the above are weak or examples that stretch it a bit, or even not right on, but.....  Think about it...

What I'm seeing:

Google doesn't like the fact that they are being gamed and mastered by folks with blog networks, and advertising dollars are being diverted from their coffers in the form of either adwords/adsense or content in their index and are embarrassed a bit by it, a black eye....   Either that or someone internal needed to justify their job, needed to allocate budget before it was lost, needed publicity, or things had become to calm, or even that they are being overrun by Facebook and needed to counter......   whatever the reason...

SO - they concoct a scheme - let's join a few blog networks or linking networks because we can't detect them at all (at least the well built ones) and post some posts, track down the sites on which the posts are on, identify and catalogue the other sites that are linked to as well.   Then, check all of the incoming links for those sites, and track down the blog network.   

Then, lets whack all of their pages, deindex them, and then scream from the rooftops, do it to a few others, and then instill fear and panic into the hearts and minds of webizens everywhere and parlay that into a bit of mass hysteria.   For icing on the cake, let's randomly (or perhaps a half baked algo or subset of users) send out millions of notices talking about artificial linking policies and remove your offending, bad, or "EVIL" links, then click for request for inclusion....

Funny thing here with this is that I've seen sites that haven't moved a position in the serps get them, as well as sites who've tanked, or even maybe the rare oddball who's been reindexed.  Most of them in the first two categories  - got the notice but haven't moved or got the notice and lost 20 to 50 positions.    One poor client, who just hopped aboard about 2 weeks ago lost about 60% of his traffic in the past few weeks.  Much too early into our campaign for anything we've done with them to affect them either way...

So, we've got less than what, 10 blog networks manually reindexed to much hoopla and hysteria, nothing algorithmically done here, not an algorithmic play at all.... COMPLETELY MANUAL......

So, phase one is rolling along good....

Oh, forgot the appetizer, the incremental Panda on or around Feb 27th, can't remember exact date, but...

Then the blog network circus....  I've never before seen such press, controversy, misunderstanding, and to do made about the removal of a few sites from a search engines index.....pretty amazing, funny, and pathetic. 

I do very much feel for the site owners, as well as those linked to from them, but, rebuild relink, or find another link source.  I seriously doubt you've been penalized (unless you are actually the blog network), so DO NOT CLICK on the request for re-inclusion notices - why would you want to raise your hand for a manual review, call attention to yourself for something that can most likely be handled by a few hundred/thousand links, give information to the evil moister Google so it can improve their ability to detect and filter links, etc.

I think that most people who think they've been penalized or marked for the SERP grave yard have not - simply need to rebuild, and rebuild fast...

Then, the next ingredient Penguin (is that on the endangered species list?  don't know....)  Over-optimization penalty...    Shake up your anchor text, deep link, and crank up the linking machine.....    Penguin is a tweak to their algorithm, not an intelligent spy who's visiting your site, computer, and/or brain collecting information, but an algo tweak.   Vary and shake up your link text, page to which you're linking, and just common sense...

So, what is a webmaster/site owner to do?

Existing sites - patience, link building, and reassessment and analysis of on page.  Not a fun or optimal answer, but....   Go back to the basics, and reassess what you are doing, make sure it's on track, and build links.

Link building has been, is, and will be for some time to come, the main - by a HUGE MARGIN - ranking factor.   Anchor text specific link building, done sensibly and correctly, will rank a site in no time flat.  Of course the more difficult the niche/market the more time/links.  MANY factors obviously - age of site, content, on page optimization, page load speed, hosting location, neighborhood, and literally tons of factors, but they pale in comparison to linking.

Last month we ranked a brand new site for a medium competitive keyword, from not on the map to first page, in 6 weeks.  xxxx personal injury lawyer, city being one of the top 10 largest us cities.

We also ranked a site for a term that was completely unrelated in a medium competition keyword phrase (over 11 million competition allintitle) that didn't have a single thing to do with the keyword/phrase...  Simply with links.   About 180 or so to be exact...  It's been there now for over 2 months. Variation of the "Google Bomb"....  Google it...;)

Pretty much the same recipe for linking that's worked since 1999 - do some keyword research (which is a crap shoot at best, and nothing exists which will provide comprehensive information on this, or statistics).  The only thing that can is Goog - which won't, and they could only provide stats on less than half of all search terms, taking into account the percentage of unique searches....  

I think numbers in their keyword tool should be taken with a beach, not just a grain of sand...), but they're one of the few places that attempts to take a stab at it.  I seriously doubt they release accurate data there - they don't anywhere else (site links, etc.) why would they start with the keyword tool....  Plus the amount of unique search is high enough that it's a serious contender, so getting the general areas, niching them down, and building quantity content around though spheres in a good start...

Register you main thought sphere, topic or keyword phrase as your domain name, or pick some crazy, off the wall made up word, or something for branding or marketing ( a la Google), then, create directories from there with your main thought spheres.  within the dirs, create pages named after particular sub-though spheres and create as much content as you can on different pages, named accordingly.  Keep page size reasonably, and use those to feed into whatever funnel you have going, or arrange them around your adwords, affiliate links, or products.

Then, map keywords to your site map.  Build links to each of the pages with it's main keywords, as well as use the url itself as anchor text, click here, more information, etc.  

Then, as you build links and increase content to decent levels, casting a wider and wider net to catch the long tail, unique, as well as targeted volume phrases, throw some video channels, optimized, some individual video pages.   Drive traffic to your site via YouTube, Facebook Page, SERPS, etc.   

Put your head down, quit reading blog posts, and get to linking....
Oh, except this one - http://www.solution416.com/blog/c/googles-decision-deindex   It goes over a few important points I didn't cover here, as well identifies the networks that got shut down.   Less than a dozen by my count so far, so hardly the "earth shattering shakeup" that it's made out to be....  

Ok, NOW put your head down, quit reading blog posts, and get to linking.....
Except this one - www.coolbubba.com or www.coolbubba.com/blog    the /blog part is the old, legacy blog and site, which is currently in works to be replaced.  The new site and blog will be available at www.coolbubba.com, and the old part will still be available for reference... soon....:)

Another thought....  If a site has been experiencing a recent drop or issues, exact dates of the drops would be a great place to start a conversation, as there have been multiple things going on with Google lately. Penguin, over optimization, incremental panda, etc.    From on or around Feb 27 until now, it's basically been a mine field for quite a few folks.   Have you clicked the button for manual review and waiting on the SE gods at Google to give the nod to your site and resurrect it.....  I hardly think so.  For your site to be reinstated to it's previous rankings, you need to build links to account for what link juice/pr was lost...   Check your inbound links anchor text using something like either www.majesticseo.com or linkbuilding.wordtracker.com

One thing that I've been reminding all of my clients of is that what has happened lately is ALGORITHMIC, not manual (except the few blog networks, what less than a dozen of them?  http://www.solution416.com/blog/c/googles-decision-deindex)...  thus, no notices in Webmaster tools of the new stuff/Penguin, the only thing manually to happen in the past few months has been the few blog networks that were taken out, loud noise made about it, millions (literally) of notices about artificial linking to instill fear into the hearts of the citizens, and cause panic, get them to feel guilty, remove anything questionable or that they feel may be "bad" or "evil" and then phone mother Google and let her know that all is well (and so they can then analyze all changes in linking activity to sites over the past few months, and garner as much info as they can about linking, and artificial vs. natural, and attempt to, in the future, tune their ability to detect such "linking schemes" with said information, but they aren't anywhere near able to detect such things naturally or algorithmically, which is good news for us.....  How is that for a disgustingly long run-on sentence?  :) 

It's a glaring observation that they had to resort to doing a few blog network take-downs manually, make it high profile and parade around the corpses of the networks and sites slaughtered in the process, and then blanket the land with "artificial linking notices" which were sent to people who were not affected by the changes in the least bit, to people who disappeared from the rankings (due totally to things other than linking in 99.99999% of the cases...)
05.1.2012

Learn SEO – Beginners Search Engine Optimization Course – Search Engine News – ROCKS!!!! Highly recommended

Learn SEO – Search Engine News is how I started to learn SEO, and how I keep up with all of the changes each month with their monthly newsletter – as well as occasionally write for it…:)  They are some of the greatest people you could hope to work with, and now they’re putting on an incredible beginners seo course.  If you want to learn how to master SEO, this is definitely the place to start, and begin to achieve the results you’ve always wanted…  Some of what they cover is below, and you can find out the rest at their site.  Check it out, it’s going to be well worth whatever it is x10…   There are a few things, when done over and over, will enable you to achieve success at any level.  We’ve ranked sites with competition of upwards of 3 BILLION for their market – that’s a B as in BILLION.   We did the same thing for that site, and the keyword hotels as we do with our local clients, but just do it 100,000 times, instead of 2,000 times…   scale it.  You can learn to master SEO by taking this course and then wash, rinse, repeat…   The more difficult and competitive, the more things you have to get right, but essentially there are 3 things you need to get right…..   e-mail me at sales at coolbubba.com if you’re interested in the three things you MUST get right, with a subject line of 3 things right, and I’ll let you know…   You want to learn SEO and glide up to the top of the serps (search engine results pages), and outrank and out-earn your competition, then click here now, and join in with winners…  They have limited seats, so hurry….   and don’t forget, if you want the 3 things you have to get right – shoot me an e-mail….

 

Thanks kids,

Mike

 

What You’ll Learn - The training days will be divided into two weeks. Here is the outline of content that will be covered:

    • Think like a Search Engine
      * Order of Importance
      * Spiders, Crawlers and Bots
      * Discovery Process
      * Seed Sets
      * Link Structure
  • Types of Search Results
    * Personalization
    * Images
    * Video
    * Local
    * News
    * Shopping
    * Instant Answers
    * Real Time
    * Social
    * Organic
    * Paid Ads
    * QDF (Query Deserves Freshness)
    * QDD (Query Deserves Diversity)
    * Trending Topics
    * Product Related Queries
  • Keyword Research
    * Finding Your Most Valuable Keywords
    * Determining Search Volume
    * Keyword Competition
    * Long Tail Keywords
    * Keyword Research Tools and Processes
  • Internal Ranking Factors
    * Title Tag
    * Domain Names
    * Headline Tags
    * Link Anchor Text
    * Page Content
04.13.2012

Find places to build links to my site – where to find places to build links to my site

The below is a txt file I've had for YEARS I've been copying and pasting in strings I've used to find places to link, and find places to build links to my sites.  Have at 'em and enjoy!!!  :) 

Coolbubba.com
Mike Richey
sales@coolbubba.com

Link Finding Search Strings
How to find places to backlink
How to find places to link to my site…

Enjoy kids, been collecting them for a bit from tons of places and been using them for about 10 years now..

Check Out On Backlink Watch:

http://gamerslifeline.com/member.php?u=7933

Resource list:Search in Google using these search strings (see video).
- "keyword phrase"+inurl:blog site:.edu
- "keyword phrase"+inurl:blog site:.gov
- site:.edu inurl:blog "keyword phrase"
- site:.gov+wp-admin
- site:.gov+blog
- site:.gov+comment.php
- site:.gov+"submit site"
- site:.gov+"submit your site"
- site:.gov+"add url"
- site:.edu inurl:blog "keyword" "comment"
- site:gov - "you must be logged in" -"comment closed"
- site:edu - "you must be logged in" -"comment closed"

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- Get links from competitors' inbound link partners

- Forum signature files + participate

- DoFollow Blog Comments on high PR sites where comment spammers get links

- {your keyword} + "intitle:directory"
- {your keyword} + "intitle:directory" + "submit site"
- {your keyword} + "intitle:directory" + "submit site" + "free" 

- {your keyword} + "inurl:directory"
- {your keyword} + "inurl:directory" + "submit site"
- {your keyword} + "inurl:directory" + "submit site" + "free"

- Google: list of directories
- Google: list of blog directories
- Google: list of {keyword} blog directories

http://www.followlist.com

- "keywords" + "post comment" -"comments closed"
- "keywords" +blog + dofollow - "comments closed"
- "keywords" +comments +dofollow -"comments closed"

http://blog.byibo.com/2009/12/02/finding-thousands-of-"dofollow"-sources/

- http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/
- http://www.dofollowblogs.com/
- http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/

- Onlywire/socialmarker/Howie's Bookmarking tool

- "keyword phrase"+inurl:blog site:.edu
- "keyword phrase"+inurl:blog site:.gov
- site:.edu inurl:blog "keyword phrase"
- site:.gov+wp-admin
- site:.gov+blog
- site:.gov+comment.php
- site:.gov+"submit site"
- site:.gov+"submit your site"
- site:.gov+"add url"
- site:.edu inurl:blog "keyword" "comment"
- site:gov - "you must be logged in" -"comment closed"
- site:edu - "you must be logged in" -"comment closed"

*** COMMENT ON BLOG ALERTS WHICH APPEAR ON KEYWORDS

- site:.gov inurl:Forum_ID
- site:.edu inurl:Forum_ID
-- Find those forums which allow signature links w/ anchor text

*** PROFILES ON HIGH PR SITES
HappyNews.com (PR 6) http://www.fannation.com (PR 7) abcnews.go.com (PR 8) Google Earth forums (PR 8) http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm http://www.poynter.org/ (PR 7) Ojr.org (PR 7) Blogs.msdn.com (PR 7) USAToday.com (PR 8) http://espn.go.com/ post link on comment wall (PR 8) http://www.thatsfit.com/ (PR 7)

http://www.quantcast.com

http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/publisher/Publisher+Program+Overview

http://www.aboutus.org/

http://bizinformation.org/

http://www.cubestat.com/

http://www.peekstats.com/add-site

http://seoheap.com/sitevalue

http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com/

http://www.urlfanx.com/

http://www.urlfanx.com/site/bumper/805.html

http://www.urlfanx.com/search_not_found.php3?no_cache=1

http://www.wikidweb.com/

http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/

http://www.yourwebsitevalue.com/

http://websiteshadow.com

http://www.alexa.com/

http://www.alexa.com/siteowners

http://www.compete.com/

http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com

http://www.ninjawebsiteappraiser.com/

http://www.cubestat.com

http://www.welcomia.com/

http://www.stimator.com/

http://www.sitevaluecheck.com/

http://www.u2ws.com/

http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/

http://www.websitevalued.com/

http://www.dnscoop.com/

http://www.cwire.org/website-value-calculator/

http://www.smartpagerank.com/

http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/

** Leave blog comments on sites where comment spammers
Example:  "acai berry" + siteurl:.edu + "comments"
Find comment spammers
Run through Backlinkwatch.com
Find sites w/ PR > 3 + .edu and .gov sites and leave good comments
03.24.2012

Happy Chocolate Covered Raisin Day!!!

Local Search Marketing, Local SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Dallas SEO, Reputation Management, Dallas Reputation Management – services that can result in very happy raisins, er, website owners, who take advantage of these and some of the other highest ROI advertising forms online with Coolbubba Multimedia. – Shameless Plug.

 

Hey everyone, happy Chocolate Covered Raisin Day!   It’s an awesome day for it here in Texas, sunny, no clouds, and upper 70′s…  enough to melt any raisins left in the car while we’re running around….

How are you planning on spending your Chocolate Covered Raisin Day?  We’ll be working for a few hours, then watching some movies and projects, studying a bit, and spending time with the family.

Check out more about Chocolate Covered Raisin Day:   http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/March/chocolateraisinday.htm

Also, for a special of rChocolate Covered Raisin Day, we’re offering a free site analysis to anyone who responds to this within 48 hours.  Just get ahold of my and we’ll hook you up, and give you a complete, comprehensive on page evaluation and analysis.   mike at coolbubba dot com or post your contact information to this post and we’ll contact you.  Just because it’s the weekend and a holiday doesn’t mean that you can slack and lay off of your online marketing efforts.   Local Search Optimization and marketing via Google Places and MANY other mediums, video, etc. as well as on page optimization continue to be some of the best dollars spend and consistently turn out and provide the best ROI for your advertising dollar.  Advertising efforts and dollars spent elsewhere very probably will shrivel up like a chocolate covered raisin because you’re just shooting in the dark…    With working to market online, you can identify with some degree of certainty how many of your potential clients or customers are searching for certain keywords each month.  From this, we can assist you in selecting which terms that are related to your business that produce search volumes that would result with higher numbers of visitors to your site.   You can’t get hit by the bus in the middle of the forrest, you have to jump out in front of it.   Same with search marketing – if you have a “great” idea or catch phrase, or cool idea on how you want to market your business, and then want to show up for that in the search engines, that’s all well and good, BUT, if no one is searching for it, it won’t yield any results.   IF you target the proper keywords and key phrases, with higher volumes of people searching for them, when you rank for those terms, it should in turn result in a percentage of those visitors clicking through to your site….

 

Thanks much and happy chocolate covered raisin day!!

 

Mike

02.13.2012

What does free pizza have to do with SEO? Everything actually…..

What does free pizza have to do with SEO?   Everything actually….  We need to eat sometime, at least….

You can get a totally free papa johns pizza, (we just did it and used the code) by going to the url below:
and then clicking the link on the top of the page or maybe going directly here:
and just entering in your email address.  It’s totally easy, and totally works.  I just ordered some pizza and used the code I got from doing that for one of them, and it worked beautifully.  Get ya some free pie..:)
This worked this past Saturday, Feb 11th, and I think the coupons expire on March 4th, not sure when they’ll pull the page with the offer on it….
11.5.2011

Link Building – Stack Your Links – Link Booster

Link building is the number one thing you can do to help your site rank better in the search engines. Anyone who has been involved with SEO for even a short period of time knows that link building is the number one thing you can do to boost your search engine rankings and get your site ranked in the search engines. You do keyword research, determine what you want to rank for in the search engines – what will bring the most targeted traffic to your site, prioritize as to what is achievable as well as what will be longer range goal keywords, map them to the pages on your site – determine which keyword matches up the best with which page on your site. Then, optimize your on page for those keywords, include them in the title tag, url if possible, meta description, meta keywords, include the main keyword as the first word or phrase on your page, and then include it in the body text of the page, and then engage in link building like there’s not tomorrow. Of course quality does matter – getting a link from the home page of Google would be much more beneficial than a link from an obscure warez or spam site, but it’s also going to be much harder. Of course, in the case of Google’s homepage, it’s pretty obvious that it will literally be impossible to get a link on it, but from quality, relevant sites it’s also going to be harder than PPC sites (porn, pills, casinos) who will exchange links with any site with a hint of a living, breathing, domain name and a home page that resolves.

When link building, ideally, you’ll want to look for pages that are related to or on topic to the keyword you want to use as the anchor text for your link. For example, if you are trying to rank for liposuction, you’d ideally search for liposuction in Google and ask the top 30, 40, or 50 ranked sites for links, and they’d give them to you… Chances are – not.. BUT, definitely worth trying and asking.

But, getting links from pages where there is relevant text, and then using your keyword as the anchor text for your link, you’re on the right track. You can establish on page relevance quite a few ways as well. You can find blogs or industry specific pages on which you can contribute and leave your link in your signature line if they let you, you can create forum profiles, then in your profile, or on the forum, write a semantically relevant paragraph, embedding your anchor text and link, and post it, and literally 100′s of other ways.

One thing that is extremely effective as far as link building goes, that way too many people overlook, and one that is easy to do, is to take advantage of the links that you DO have going to your site, and leverage them to increase not only your link juice for that specific keyword, but boost your site overall, and increase your rankings across the board. Check out Yahoo’s Site Explorer (while it’s still around), and tools like MajesticSEO and put together a list of all of the links that you have going to your site. Then, begin building links TO the links you have to your site. You could of course go about this manually, but it would take some time. You could outsource this, as well, there are plenty of automated ways you could do this, like SENukeX, Instant Social Anarchy, xrumer, and quite literally hundreds of other tools. Link wheels are one way of implementing this, but done exactly, and over and over, they create a footprint that’s detectable by the search engines. Whether random link creation or link wheels are the solution is another topic entirely, depending upon many thing.

Bottom line, take advantage of the resources and links that you currently have, and inventory them, and link to them…

11.2.2011

Make Money Tweeting

Make Money Tweeting. Yes, it’s not only possible, you can get started making money by posting on Twitter today right here. In fact, it’s really easy to monetize your twitter account. Basically, what they have setup is an online marketplace that will enable you to connect with online advertisers to carry on sponsored Twitter conversations. Advertisers compensate you with cash for a tweet that is sponsored by them. After you’ve signed up, you set an asking price, add a category and some keywords, and then advertisers, based upon this information, will give you offers. You then choose which offers you want to accept, and then get you get paid… It’s quite simply as easy as that to make money tweeting. Make money tweeting today, sign up here right now.

10.23.2011

What Happened to the Texas Rangers Last Night?

What happened to the Texas Rangers last night? It was a disaster, and a beating that was extremely painful to watch… I felt sorry for them, getting TORN APART at home in their second only World Series appearance… I was totally at a loss for words.. My family was sitting around the screen in disbelief, torn between turning it off and removing ourselves from the cringing embarrassment that was the game last night, to sticking around to see the final outcome.. Man, what a game if you could call it that… I hope they can rally tonight and pull back in and bring this one as a victory at probably their last home game.

Plus, what was up with the moron who threw the ball on the field? He should have been more than removed from the game… What a sad reflection on Rangers fans by one idiot who doesn’t know how to behave and can’t control himself or conduct himself in a proper manner… Pretty sad night all around..

10.22.2011

Leaked Google Manual Review Document Download

Just this past week, a copy of Google’s manual review guidelines was leaked.
You can download the Google Manual Review Document here:
Google Manual Review Document
and have a look for yourself.

There are all sorts of take aways from this, including an outline for how you should be designing your sites and pages at minimum. This is an internal Google document that is used by Google employees when manually reviewing websites. So, if your site passes this, at minimum you should have no problem passing a manual review. How closely their algo matches this is another question, but…

Anyway, enjoy, that’s it for now, I wanted to put this up, and will comment more later.

10.19.2011

Google to Limit Keyword Search Referral Data To Marketers

conversely, it may actually clean up some of the “noise” in the results from the keyword tool from repeated searches by marketers and site owners looking for their sites daily, any could theoretically provide us with a cleaner, more pure information set that is closer to real world results and enable us to better project actual traffic numbers coming from actual real people looking for real solutions, not marketers, automated searches, etc. So, potentially, it could work to our advantage…Google to Limit Keyword Search Referral Data To Marketers

This article at Hubspot is interesting:  http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/27535/Google-to-Limit-Keyword-Search-Referral-Data-to-Marketers.aspx

Google is going to start limiting keyword search referral data to marketers from users logged into Google.com and the search strings will be encrypted.

The short of this:  If you are logged into Google when you perform a search, your search string (what appears in the address bar of the browser when you are passed to the site will be encrypted, and you will not be able to leverage this information, one of the main things being – being able to determine the keywords that were typed into the browser that landed someone at your site.

In other words, if someone is logged into Google (Gmail, Keyword Tool, Google+ or any other Google property) – you won’t be able to tell what keywords they used to land on your sites if they do in fact type in keywords into Google.com to get to your site.

There are many things that this could affect, including external tools that webmasters or marketers are using to measure traffic, etc.
My first thought was how many people would be affected or how many searchers would
be affected by this, as I know ginger and the kids aren’t logged into Gmail most
of the time, as are my parents, sister, nieces, brother in law, other sister, her
husband, etc. Well, actually Ginger is, but out of my immediately family
(about 15 or 16 folks) only two are logged into Gmail when they surf the web
(Ginger and I). So, in this scenario, only Ginger’s and my search activity
would be hidden. Also out of quite a few friends and clients (noticing their
e-mail address, etc.- so it is possible they are logged into google or gmail
or some other google service, but sending -email from a different account) – only
a few of my friends and clients (again, from what I can surmise from what
I see e-mail wise only) are logged in. Then Matt Cutt’s estimates 10%
further down in the article.

The really interesting thing to know would be the demographic of the 10%
mentioned by Matt Cutts… Again, from what I can tell, i’s probably more
power users, marketers, etc. Sort of like the skew at Alexa and their results…..
In my estimation, probably most of the data from Alexa is from marketers, site
owners, or someone with something to do with marketing or web traffic of some
sort, because they would mostly be the ones using the toolbar and using the
services to monitor such things. I know my mom and my sister sure as heck don’t
care much about what traffic the sites they visit gets or what keywords they get
hits on…LOL

However, I hit Alexa just about everyday (or Compete or whatever) for data
about clients sites and their competitors, trying to gauge campaigns, keywords
being addressed, competitors keyword traffic, etc.
In the article, Matt Cutts states that this will probably only affect about
10% of users.  While 10% is a relatively small number, it could have bigger
implications, if the majority of the demographic that hits your site is logged
into Google.com and types in your big money keywords.
The changes will hamper our ability to mine information about both our own
sites, as well as competitors sites possibly to some extent, which isn’t a
good think, but life existed before Google Analytics and will after as well.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and we’ll just have to figure as best
we can how to get this information, or how to adapt to not having it and
still maintaining successful ranking and marketing campaigns for our
clients and ourselves….

Not the end of the world, but possibly more of a road bump….

Mike

Also, conversely, it may actually clean up some of the “noise” in
the results from the keyword tool from repeated searches by marketers
and site owners looking for their sites daily, any could theoretically
provide us with a cleaner, more pure information set that is closer to
real world results and enable us to better project actual traffic numbers
coming from actual real people looking for real solutions, not marketers,
automated searches (although I’d suspect that most automated searches, queries, etc come from people logged out), etc.   So, potentially, it could work to our advantage…