Comments on: An informal chat with Google

By: firebubble

firebubble — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:32:59 +0000

This was very creative and it made me smile, nice post David :)

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:10:30 +0000

Hello Nick,

I do use GMail, but not for vital communications. Previously, I had many email accounts all directed to GMail, but now I’m much more selective.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:08:19 +0000

I was wondering if you still use gmail for your business email. I was looking into it, and of course found your story. It really stinks that this happened to you, but the good side is that it should bring you a good amount of traffic. (And hopefully more business. You definitely deserve it.)

I love your work.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:53:16 +0000

Kristarella,

I agree that it’s not great when you know a post exists, but it’s near impossible to find on a certain blog. That’s one reason why I use Google’s custom search. I find the results to be very accurate.

Jermayn,

Thanks for your opinion, which I value. I’d not considered anyone thinking that way, so I’ll be sure to keep it in mind when writing future posts.

Al, SeaBird,

Good of you both to comment. Thank you.

By: SeaBird

SeaBird — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:50:07 +0000

So Google didn’t like your giveaway… I didn’t know about that little peculiarity. And I’m off to look at the Webmaster tools now…thanks!

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By: Al Haneson

Al Haneson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:08:17 +0000

I always wondered what site links were and how to get them… now I know. I also enjoyed the creativity in this post,
thanks,
AL

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By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:25:17 +0000

Good read but like kristarella some of my first reactions was that this post would surely be a good chance and excuss for some linkbaiting.

Although im not complaining as its just smart blogging :D

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By: kristarella

kristarella — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:37:36 +0000

I guess category pages aren’t that big a deal because your posts are probably going to stay in those categories. It’s annoying when you get the front page of a blog and the thing you’re looking for is long gone from there. I’m sure it’s not a problem here since you have so many links coming in, Google has your site well sorted.

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By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:25:38 +0000

Brent,

Interesting that you found my blog through Bumpzee. I’ve not visited the community in some time, perhaps half a year. I’ve had my fair share of issues with Google, and with the GMail service in particular, but it’s been a great learning experience.

sandie,

Always a pleasure to read a note from a first-time commenter, so thanks for taking the time.

Kristarella,

I think you’re right about needing a few more back-links before actual site links are applied. Prior to site links through my name, I had the indented search result just like you.

As for manually creating a sitemap, the dynamic aspect is something I’d not have a clue about, hence why I’m reliant on the plugin. Sadly I can’t offer any advice there. When’s the re-design due? Something to look forward to.

Good question about whether I let Google’s spiders crawl my categories. I use the ‘all in one SEO’ plugin, but don’t have the checkboxes ticked to prevent crawling of my archives and categories. Perhaps I should? I know there’s a duplicate content issue, but it seems apparent that the robots are clever enough to know that blogs produce such duplications. Doesn’t seem to be harming me anyhow.

Jalaj,

The water’s calm, so it’s all good. Thanks.

Matt,

Cheers for paying me a visit. One Google employee in particular was recently very helpful, and spent some time looking into my situation. He taught me certain aspects about what happened, and for that I’m grateful.

As for blog templates, what I find most important is the legibility, and you’ve got that one sorted.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:32:24 +0000

I enjoyed how you made the situations into a dialog. If it helps, I know that the security and Gmail folks did take the attack on your account very seriously and looked into multiple ways to keep such things from happening in the future, as well as thinking about issues like account recovery and how to make that better going forward.

As for my blog template, I figure that as long as I serve a full feed, most people will read me in a feed reader anyway. :)

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