Search Engines

Link Vault is an advertising network that a lot of SEOs use very successfully to increase their rankings. To do this, you have to register in the system with a good site that you get a lot of “Vaultage” for (Vaultage is the internal currency), and then create some “Links”. There are some minor disadvantages, such as a flawed controls system and absece of support for Unicode characters, but on the overall, it is a rather good network which I use a lot myself. Read more about Link-Vault (sometimes called LV) here.

If you need support for Unicode characters, there is another somewhat smaller network called StaticAds.

My link exchange network, StaticAds, is now up and running. I’m looking for people who want to act as testers and use the system in the future when all bugs have been corrected. Register in StaticAds.

test and test and test.

UPDATE: I was wrong. As pointed out here, the text “gdymov.com” is present on the page, although it is cloaked using CSS. Since I overtrusted the wordpress site, I didn’t check the source code of that page. Sorry for any inconvinience caused.

While searching I observed a strange phenomenon. For this search, look at the page codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Statistics that appears 9th, the snippet says:

Backlinks (http://gdymov.com/inbound-links-backlinks-wordpress-plugin/): Draws a graph over how the number of incoming links (thus the name “Backlinks”) to …

but the text http://gdymov.com/inbound-links-backlinks-wordpress-plugin/ does not actually appear on the page. So, where did Google get this text? When I examined the source, I found that the ‘title’ attribute of the link contains this text. Thus, this proves that google indexes the content in the <a title='’ attribute.

For those that want really rigid evidence, I can say that this does not work with links that have no ‘title’ attribute (in this example, nothing shows up, though the page has a link to gdymov.com, but contains neither the text “gdymov.com” nor does the link have a ‘title’ attribute).

I’ve done some interesting observations on the IDN & filename fix that Google has applied to its Swedish version.

Until recent, Google could not handle IDN properly. It showed up something like “%c4pple.se” instead of äpple.se. You can see an example here on MSN.

There are still problems with the Toolbar PageRank.

Anther interesting thing is that we now can confirm that google treats o=ö, a=ä, å in filenames. You can see this by searching for a phrase that should contain any of the letters ö, ä, å, but contains their correspondents in english, e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=sokmotoroptimering

A fynny side-effect of this is that if you search for a word that should not contain å, ä, ö; e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=sokmötöröptimering