Biasanya, sitelink dari web2 yang dianggap populer oleh google akan berderet sekitar 4 link atau lebih. Dan biasanya sitelink ini akan terdiri dari 2 kolom. Tadi tumben saya coba search keyword Seminyak Villas di google terus ngeliat hasil search yang berbeda.

Coba deh perhatikan tanda panah di gambar berikut :

Maklum katrok, jadi perubahan ini terjadi sejak kapan saya kurang tahu.
BTW, tar lagi mau main2 ke g-land, ama bos balikami yang katanya dah siap2 berangkat ke g-land

Selain itu selamat juga untuk pemenang kontes2an ala Kapanlagi.com. Hadiah tahun baru yang besar untuk kalian, kalo gak salah masing2 10 juta ya. Pemenangnya lihat disini. Meskipun banyak menuai protes akhirnya kapanlagi mengumumkan juara kontes2annya.

Namun ada yang sedikit janggal dari pengumuman pemenang kontes ini, karena menurut saya MUNGKIN bertolak belakang dg aturan main mereka coba lihat di http://ourfriend.kapanlagi.com/faq.php. Dan lihat lihat skrinsot dibawah;

aturan-kontes-kapanlagi

Masing2 sudah saya garis bawahi. “Setiap kali banner dilihat KapanLagi.com mencatat dan memberi 1 poin”. Model aturan yang dipakai sangat rentan manipulasi, apalagi hasil penilaian tdk dipublikasikan.

Nah, meski menuai protesdari banyak blogger karena ketidaktegasan mereka soal pengumuman pemenang, namun ternyata kapanlagi (KL) kembali mengadakan kontes kedua. Dan sayangnya, masih menggunakan aturan sama. Akankah mereka sukses dengan kontes kedua ? Saya rasa tidak. Mereka sudah menyakiti banyak blogger Indonesia yang tidak sedikit dari mereka blogger2 handal yang banyak punya pengikut. Seperti misalnya zalukhu sang master dari nias, hakimtea yang ngelisting paa blogger yang memprotes KL, kopitozie dan masih banyak lagi yang lain.

Apapun hasilnya, tentu penentuan juara oleh panitia TIDAK BISA DIGANGGUGUGAT. Namun disini, meski saya tidak ikut kontesnya KL, saya ingin sumbang saran, kalau seandainya tujuan kontes mereka untuk memperbanyak backlink dan meningkatkan kunjungan ke web mereka masih banyak cara yang bisa dilakukan. Apalagi dengan dana sebesar $5000 (untuk kontes kedua). Misalnya; buat kontes reviu. Masing2 peserta membuat reviu yang positif (tentunya, wekekeke) tentang KL dalam reviu diisi banner KL, reviu dengan komentar dan trackback terbanyak mendapat point terbesar dan dialah yang keluar sebagai juara. Asyik kan ? Kalau sudah begini kan penentuan juaranya jelas. KL senang, blogger riang. Backlink KL nambah, senyum bloggerpun merekah ) karena dapat duit.

Apapun hasil dan tujuannya, yang jelas saya cuma ingin mengucapkan SELAMAT TAHUN BARU 2009. Maaf kalo jadi ngelantur dan kepanjangan ).

Since yesterday my sitemap status in Google Webmaster Tools are in “pending status”. First, I think it’s a problem with my sitemap. Then I try to resubmit them. But, today nothing happen. It still in pending status.

Curious, I try to googling, and found so many webmaster suffering.

John Mueller from Switzerland — Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zurich known as Jhonmu in Google Groups has confirm about this issue in Google Group thread.

Hi everyone!

This is currently a known issue, the team here is working on resolving it as quickly as possible. Generally speaking, it’s normal for some sites to take a while before the “pending” status disappears. At the moment however, it looks like this is taking a bit longer than usual.

If the “pending” status for your site has been showing for a while now, I wouldn’t worry too much about it for now. It’s not something on your site, or anything that you need to resolve on your end.
I’ll update this thread once it gets resolved. Thanks for your patience!

John

Here another thread about this issue.

I hope this conditions not for long, ’cause I’m in the middle of Busby SEO Contest, and hope this will not make my positions drop.

What will you do ? wait for Google fixed this issue or try another way ?

Winner will be decide by : USA Google Data Center – for the key phrase : in Busby SEO Test Datacenter.

1. Keyword Factor
2. • Test Keyword in Title Tag
   • Maximizing keyword in Body Text
   • Using keyword in H1 Tag in my Busby SEO Test post header, also try to use other H Tags
   • Using keyword in domain are disallow then I used it in my post URL
   • Start to optimizing alt tags and image titles in my busby test contest page
   • Using bold and emphasis for busby keyword to test this page
   • Some say meta keyword and meta description are no longer important, since this busby contest are based on specific keyword, then I try to use it now (using meta tag are not my style, but I will try it)
3. Link Factor
4. • Make this contest Busby page popularity more than other page in this domain by optimizing internal linking
   • Build topical relevance of Inbound Links to this Busby SEO Contest page from site that has good link popularity
   • Fresh link everyday
   • Variate anchor inbound link to void google bomb indicator
   • Only make a external link to authority site
   • Don’t care to much about domain extension of linking site, for an example .edu, .gov, .com, etc
5. Luck Factor

Simple isn’t it ? yeah, that is simple just like that, nothing more. I’m just noobie so please forgive me if I could not give you a good content in this Busby SEO Test Contest page.

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Update :
For you to know, I’m participating in this challenge is not only for the prize money, but to exhibit my Noobs skills and try to discover and share new techniques for optimizing a single page. I consider by competing in competition like this, will give me the opportunity to show how much I mastering the search engine techniques.

But knowing a little about search engine techniques without friend help (backlinks), it almost nothing. So, if you want to see Dewaji wins this SEO Contest, please link to this single post with the anchor text “Busby SEO Test“.

First Prize : $5000
Second Prize : $2000
Third Prize : $500
Fourth Prize : $250
Fifth Prize : $100
Midway prize – $1000 to the entrant who has the highest Average ranking on Google this can be measured on Monday 5th January 2009. (Pinay win this prize).

October :
3 = #10
4 = #1 and 2nd (my blog)
5 = #2 and 3rd (my blog)
6 = #1 and 2nd (my blog)
7-14 = same result
15-24 (morning)= same result
24 (night) = drop to 2 + 3
25 = Back to the top
31 = My friends told me to move my ass and I’m drop to #5 + #6

November
1 = #1
2 = #3 + #4
4 = #1
9 = #3+ #4. Now it’s Getting hard to compete in this challenge, all competitor are trying hard to get the best place and try to outrank their competitor. Then it’s time to play and do some exercise
9 – 13 = Forgot to save the log
14 = #5 and #6. But the good news is Our IMFreakz blog has taken the lead
15 November until 11 January this page still struggling in top ten.

January (last month)
11 = #5

The good news in this second SEO Test by Busby is; we still can use our old domain to participate, more about the seo test contest rules, please read it in my sidebar. And, to win this SEO test Challenge I think I’ll need Jasa Konsultan SEO. Would you mind to share your knowledge, technique and all your Busby seo test magic. Also do some testing at Busby SEO Test Contest World Cup to help this Busby SEO Test post.

I’m really lucky this page ranking so stable and hope will not drop from top ten in this Busby SEO Contest Test.

Apakah memang ada perubahan jadwal dari Google atau gimana ? wah kurang tahu pasti juga. Yang saya tahu dan alamai sih Google sudah melakukan update PR di Bulan Juli, Agustus dan September ini. Biasanya, update PR dilakukan 4 bulan sekali. Sedangkan sekarang dalam 3 bulan 3 kali update PR. Blog ini sendiri mengalami peningkatan 1 baris alias jadi PR4 dari PR3. Dan beberapa blog prindai maupun klien saya juga mengalami peningkatan. Namun sayang, blog pribadi ecek-ecek saya dewaji.com PR nya drop dari PR 3 jadi PR2.

Ayo, cek PR blog2 kamu, kali2 aja naik. BTW, kalo sudah begini kondisinya sepertinya saya perlu jasa konsultan SEO untuk menaikkan PR blog pribadi saya ?

There only 3 key players in the online browser market, IE, Firefox and Safari (MACs), before Google Chrome released.

Download Google Chrome here. Or if you not sure to download this new browser or not, read this first test run by blogscoped

Now the question is :
Will you use this browser?
And Steven Finch (crenk.com) : ask us about if Google Chrome becomes popular and out grows Firefox, will they still pay top dollar to be the default search in Firefox?

Google Suggest will be “graduating” from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage. Over the next week, we’ll be rolling this out so that more and more of you will start seeing a list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.

This feature will reduce your time to get the best results by Google Suggestion with the best keywords and phrases. Google Suggest features include : Help formulate queries, Reduce spelling errors, and Saves keystrokes.

This is similar to Google’s “Did you mean?” feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time.

This is an example about finding a long tail keyword with google suggest :

I try to find Busby SEO Challenge in that search form. But before I finish in typing the keyphrase as you can see in my screenshot above, Google suggesting a list of recent search (if I’m not mistaken). I think this a part of Google Suggest Save Keystroke features.

I see Busby SEO Contest, Busby SEO, Busby SEO Challenges, and Busby SEO Challenge devianart on their suggestions. I think Google will only show relatively popular keywords based on what you type and recent search. Because Google give a list of suggestion, I think we can target our next post or blog or site based on what google suggest. And I think people who use Google when they seeing this suggestion they will choose that suggestion.

seroundtable.com has wrote about Google Suggest to Change the Ways of Search Engine Optimization, or join discussions on Sphinn : 9 Ideas How Google Suggest Could Change Search Marketing, and Google Suggest Will Greatly Change Keyword Referrers.

I tried to compare this new feature of Google with Yahoo Search Assist. Again, I type Busby SEO, and they give me suggestions just like what you see in the screenshoot below.