No list, but I've spoken to Trustpilot before who told me they have a "special relationship" with Google who use their reviews. Whether it's a formal agreement or just sales spiel I don't know. Unlike a lot of sites though they do allow you to have verified reviews based on order ID/customer emails you provide them with (a paid service).

Just done a search in bing for one of our key terms and the title tag is showing wrongly despite being correctly set on the page.

It's an internal page, and as far as I can tell it's taken the H1 tag from the page (the term the result appears for) and has then appended the homepage title tag to the end of it.

Has anyone seen this behaviour before or are aware how to prevent it? Had a search but couldn't find anything.

My concern is our site targets both genders independently with separate sections for each, yet by merging our homepage title tag in we're now having areas which are solely optimised for one gender suddenly appearing as both (since the homepage is gender neutral).

I seem to remember Matt Cutts saying backlinks can't harm you, so algorithmically should be ok, although if someone were to report us for supposedly acquiring these links then not sure how Google would view it as they don't look very legitimate. Many have Japanese and Chinese extensions, and there's a lot of government sites which definitely have no reason to link to us (One was even from Nasa).

Hi, I've been looking through Open Site Explorer and found a bunch of dodgy pages/files which are supposedly (or have previously been) linking to our site.

Having looked at about five of our other competitors they all have similar links pointing to them, with the exception of of the one major competitor which raises suspicions.

For example, OSE reports these (be warned they start downloading files):

http://www.disneymobile.jp/pc/pdf/DM002SH_tukaikata_PC.zbf?func=viewtag&tagid=69867&tagname=malis&visit=19066
http://www.i-paradise3.jp/~music/file/free1/img/407.3gp?ID=5&tag=rtm-300c
http://www.samsung.com/us/system/consumer/product/xe/50/0c/xe500c21a01us/500C21_White.swf?cid=16692
http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/rmra/oe/rpts/hecmdata/hecmdata_current.zipx?rech=came&modele=&numfamille=&choisi=V&panier=1&ref=105534

Is this likely to be the result of a competitor actively attempting to damage our site (among others)?

And if so, how's best to report this to Google? So far it doesn't seem to have negatively impacted our rankings, but am concerned it could result in a spam report being filed against us.

Thanks

Ah I see, I was only searching the "Traffic" forum, cheers!

Had a search and couldn't see anything on this, but it comes in to force on the 26th of May.

http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Privacy_and_electronic/Practical_application/advice_on_the_new_cookies_regulations.pdf

Has anyone thought about how they're going to comply by making cookies opt-in?

Can't see pop-ups asking for consent working particularly well so may hold fire and see what the big players do first 

Seen a big change over the weekend, seemed to hit late Friday. Has anyone else noticed anything?

The first page of Google's results for my key term have seen a lot of movement compared to the previous weekend, several competitors have now dropped off the first page.

I've recently been investigating a competitors back links and they've hundreds from irrelevant wordpress sites which have low quality articles on every subject imaginable. None of these sites have any contact information so I'm guessing this is all automated, what I'm interested to know though is whether this is being done by some spammy software, or is this a service offered by a website (and does this type of spamming have a name)?

As far as I can tell these are all one-way links and I'm hoping Google Panda weeds these sites out.

Quote from: joedavies1987 on March 21, 2011, 02:18:00 PM
We have full time freelancers but I've used http://www.directorymaximizer.com/ and that is good and 'apparantly' manual. Great ordering system you'll see what I mean if you try it... it's a bit like the vista print or amazon of directory submissions

also submitedge.com have a manual service which worked well.

They say it's manual, although in the past I've requested to receive all confirmation emails and I always receive all of them within a 10 second time span so I question the manual submission.

Seen a bit of shuffling with positions the past few days but nothing major. Interestingly yesterday though I saw a huge traffic jump from Google, although not from the UK but Latvia?!  Nice, but not really my target audience.

I saw that comment too, although can't find anyone else who claims to have been hacked so am questioning whether or not the blog in question was simply running an out-of-date version of Wordpress which could be the source of her troubles.

My first thought when seeing the toolbar is it looked like some form of spammy advertising and something which sites just tag on as an after thought.

Hi all, I've just been having a look at Wibiya and wondered if anyone's had any experience using it?

I've read a couple of reviews praising it, but have reservations over some of the comments which claim user feedback wasn't overly positive.

We're keen to introduce more of a social element to our site and further integrate the blog, together with twitter and facebook, although I'm wondering if it would be better to intergrate these into the body of the page rather than a toolbar at the bottom which may just be dismissed.