HVAC-Direct Blog http://blog.hvac-direct.com Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Blog for the website HVAC-Direct.com. Dealers for Goodman, Amana, and thousands of residential accessories. Thu, 24 May 2007 23:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 en Would you supply an email to see google’s results? http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/11/22/would-you-supply-an-email-to-see-googles-results/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/11/22/would-you-supply-an-email-to-see-googles-results/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:17:49 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/11/22/would-you-supply-an-email-to-see-googles-results/ Webmasterworld . com requires you to be logged into their site to view its contents.  However you will find their pages in google’s search results.  Unless mister Google has a username and password he is getting this information somehow.  It’s called cloaking, you allow the googlebot to see different information than a human user.
So in conclusion we can safely say that cloaking is allowed, even encouraged by google, as
1) Matt Cutts and other googler’s frequent webmasterworld.com
http://www.webmasterworld.com/profilev4.cgi?action=view&member=MattCut ts
http://www.webmasterworld.com/profilev4.cgi?action=view&member=adam_l…
http://www.webmasterworld.com/profilev4.cgi?action=view&member=vaness…
2) They link to it off of an official google blog at, for example:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
3) Allow cloaked pages to be returned in the results to the tune of
203,000 results.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,…
4) Officially endorsed and participate in their conferences.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/11/las-vegas-pubcon-2…

]]> http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/11/22/would-you-supply-an-email-to-see-googles-results/feed/ Up and Coming Home and Garden Reference http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/18/up-and-coming-home-and-garden-reference/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/18/up-and-coming-home-and-garden-reference/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:15:34 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Site News Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/18/up-and-coming-home-and-garden-reference/ I wanted to point out an up and coming directory of Home and Garden resources. The site is run by an honest company that is only looking for the best sites to add to it so you know its going to be SPAM free.

On the hvac-direct store I’ve also updated the home page featured product this evening to a the 45,000 Btu, 95% efficient variable speed model goodman furnace.

]]> http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/18/up-and-coming-home-and-garden-reference/feed/ Google Goes Supplemental http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/02/google-goes-supplemental/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/02/google-goes-supplemental/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:47:47 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/02/google-goes-supplemental/ For months now this site and others have been quietly playing a game with google.  We are told to design our sites for users and not the search engines.  Occaisionaly a site or pages from a site can be thrown into what is known as the “supplemental index” It’s usually reserved for older pages that google does not have a lot of faith in and only shows up in searches if very few worthy pages exist.  One theory is that simple things like non-unique page descriptions, something that goes against designing a site for users since most users don’t look at the page source, will trip a site into supplemental.  Google crawls regular sites daily or at least weekly, but if a page is listed as supplemental it will not be updated for months.

Well even the giant themselves must have deemed their own site not worthy of being in the regular index.  Per the screen shot taken at 9:30AM CDT, all but three pages of google.com is now supplemental.

Google Goes Supplemental

]]> http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/10/02/google-goes-supplemental/feed/ Who can follow directions best? http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/08/16/googles-inability-to-follow-directions/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/08/16/googles-inability-to-follow-directions/#comments Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:01:56 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/08/16/googles-inability-to-follow-directions/ At the end of July we moved our blog from a subfolder to the subdomain blog.hvac-direct.com. We instituted a proper 301 redirect from old to new.

To date:

Google has 1 page
MSN has 131 pages
Yahoo has 28 pages

You may want to reconsider what your default search engine is when you are looking for fresh results.

]]> http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/08/16/googles-inability-to-follow-directions/feed/ Matt “Baghdad Bob” Cutts http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/05/19/matt-baghdad-bob-cutts/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/05/19/matt-baghdad-bob-cutts/#comments Fri, 19 May 2006 09:43:00 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/?p=35 Sorry about that, the picture wasn’t showing up properly, link to Matt “Baghdad Bob” Cutts


After reading the blog posting by Mr. Matt Cutts (I do respect him) I couldn’t help thinking of that Baghdad Bob the Iraqi Minister of DisInformation standing there on the roof of the building with his city on fire and the tanks rolling up behind him. He was assuring us that he is in constant communication with their army and his boss and everything was going to be all right. After all was said and done Baghdad Bob was only doing his job even though we all knew the truth the whole time.

]]> http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/05/19/matt-baghdad-bob-cutts/feed/ SOFTplus GSiteCrawler (Johannes Mueller) http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/01/25/softplus-gsitecrawler-johannes-mueller/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/01/25/softplus-gsitecrawler-johannes-mueller/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:46:00 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/?p=7 Excellent program to create sitemaps for Google, Yahoo, and versions for your web site.

SOFTplus GSiteCrawler (By Johannes Mueller)

]]> http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/01/25/softplus-gsitecrawler-johannes-mueller/feed/ Big Daddy http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/01/24/big-daddy/ http://blog.hvac-direct.com/2006/01/24/big-daddy/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:00:00 +0000 HVAC-Direct Team Web News http://blog.hvac-direct.com/?p=5 Looks like the much anticipated Big Daddy move is started tonight. At least according to some sources at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/32888-5-10.htm

Want to see the differences? Enter a search criteria in: http://www.mcdar.net/dance/

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