Google Penalties

by Jay BhattiAugust 2, 2009 SEO

These penalties are speculation, and penalty numbers are neither an exact nor a precise measure of the exact ranking change associated with each penalty. A penalty of -N means that a site will drop (approximately) N positions in Google’s returned results, equivalent to falling N/10 pages from the front page.

Certainty
Description
Penalty
Potential Solution

High
Site is overly-optimized for a certain keyword
-6
Do [...]

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Spock mentioned in redOrbit Magazine

by Jay BhattiJuly 21, 2009 News About Jay Bhatti

Click here to see that article about Spock and how it is changing the web.

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Jay Bhatti Discusses Spock Acquisition on ABC News

by Jay BhattiJune 24, 2009 Jay Bhatti on TV

Jay Bhatti was recently in ABC News talking about the recent sale of Spock.com to Intelius – Check out the video here

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Spock, Yasni, 123people — Who’s Got the People Search Buzz?

by Jay BhattiMay 22, 2009 Spock News

Over the last half year, the people search crowd have been slugging it out, if our experience at BNET is any indication. Back in October, we had a chat with Spock.com co-founder Jay Bhatti, at the company’s request, the emphasis being its growing nature. Then during the winter, Yasni.com founder Steffen Rühl wanted a conversation, [...]

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Jay Bhatti Interviewed By Media Post About Microsoft Kumo

by Jay BhattiMay 21, 2009 News About Jay Bhatti

Microsoft ‘Kumo’ Hot On Paid, Multimedia, Semantic Search
by Laurie Sullivan, Thursday, May 21, 2009, 5:58 PM     –     PDF | Link
As Microsoft readies the release of Kumo, some industry insiders wonder if new features in the Redmond, Wash. company’s long-anticipated search engine will come a little too late. Yahoo Thursday unveiled the Smart Ads platform [...]

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Venture Beat reports that Intelius buys Spock, the people search engine

by Jay BhattiApril 30, 2009 Spock News

Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount. The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s co-founder Jaideep Singh. Unconfirmed rumors of the deal first appeared yesterday on Techcrunch.
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Interview with Co-Founder of Spock.com, JayBhatti

by Jay BhattiApril 29, 2009 News About Jay Bhatti

Jay Bhatti is co-founder of spock.com and wait… I’ll let Spock tell you about him as that is what it does best.
I asked Jay some questions about Spock, where the online advertising industry is going and the technology sector sentiment and success factors for the “where now and how”.
See my interview below and afterwards go [...]

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Jay Bhatti in E-Commerce Times about Yahoo’s New CEO

by Jay BhattiApril 22, 2009 News About Jay Bhatti

Jay Bhatti was quoted by the E-Commerce Times about his thoughts on the Yahoo quarterly earnings call.
Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Wednesday that first-quarter earnings fell by nearly 80 percent and that it will cut 675 jobs as CEO Carol Bartz struggles to revive the ailing Internet company.
The news was not generally jeered by investors, however. [...]

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Off Site Optimization for SEO: Link Building

by Jay BhattiMarch 23, 2009 SEO

Link and backlink quality matters more than link quantity. Site quality is determined by Google’s PageRank (see below).
Abrupt changes in link/backlink count can actually damage a site’s PageRank.
Excessive linking between two websites can damage the PageRank of both websites.
Backlinks that look ‘generated’ (as if the site were involved in a link farming scheme) can damage [...]

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Spock unveils ‘People Search’ for iPhone

by Jay BhattiFebruary 2, 2009 Spock News

‘People Search’ is the first and only People Search application on the iPhone. ‘People Search’ lets you find the people that you are interested in.
Who are you looking for on the web?
* Your friends?
* People with similar interests?
* Celebrities?
* Your favorite musician / author / sports star?
* The team behind your favorite company?
* Employees of [...]

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