December gets all of the glory because of Christmas shopping online being easier than traveling to the mall, but Cyber Monday is my kind of shopping day.  Year in and year out, Today (well yesterday now I guess) is a phenomenal day for Internet sales.  Internet Dating and digital goods were the biggest winners, and they usually are.  The auction sites were very solid and beauty products had a very high increase in demand from a year ago.

Thinking more on the thousands of pages of porn, I got to thinking…  if it is this easy, and it does appear to be easy, how safe is your personal information that is being submitted to the site?  What is preventing these guys from taking user lists from the .gov lists and spamming them?

The Porn sites are up to no good again. I always wonder if it is a webmaster-gone-bad or a hacker, but here are a couple government sites currently being taken advantage of.
CA.GOV (10,000 pages of porn)
BURBANKIL.GOV (13,000 pages of porn)

Why do they target GOV, you ask? GOV websites are thought to (and probably does) have more power in google’s eyes than a normal .com, .net, and .org. The reason google accepts a GOV site as more credible is because not everyone has access to them… just their employees, oh, and hackers.
There are more, but I won’t release them right now.

I’ve run across a couple sites that, after some in depth checking, should not be receiving Google’s “Badware” filter warning.  This filter, which can be found here, http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.livedigitally.com/  warns people who are about to visit the website from a Google results page.

LiveDigitally.com, while detailed as a badware site, is almost certainly not.  What does that mean?  Google doesn’t send them traffic (it stops at the interstital loading page) and they don’t cache your site.  They do show similar pages.  Here is a sample of the pages google finds similar to this “Badware” site…  WordPress.org, The-Gageteer.com, SlingMedia.com.  Now *that* is bad company.. right.

Here is something I’ve always wondered…  Why does Google display the size of the page in its results?  You know, the little number next to the url (42k, 28k, etc).. of course you do.  What purpose does this serve the general public? Or anyone for that matter…  (Yeah, yeah, Page size- SEO got it.. doesn’t really effect anything).

$500+ per share increase and nobody has changed that to something more useful?

Alright. Lets get this out of the way quick. I’m not complaining about someone else’s success, I think its great for them. Anyway, run over to Google right now, a switch occurred in the SERPs and I noticed a couple things, both of which have been there for months, but their raising in rank prompted this post.

WrestlingGear.com is the #1 & 2 results. Move to the middle of the page, and you will see WrestlingShoes.com. This site is owned, operated, and contains the exact same products, links to WrestlingGear in 90% of its pages, and yet remains as a result in the top 10. Why does this matter? Good question reader!

Here is a quick thought for everyone.

Create a basic .html file that includes a list of all of the links you would like to display.  Create an array for each URL weighting when it will be viewed (how frequently) and the # of links to display per page (this can be set separately on each originating page).  If you have a 10,000 page catalog, you don’t want to have 15 links showing on every page- its obvious your goal is to receive links from your other web properties.  Instead, display a random rotation of 15-20 links (to deeper parts of your sites, too)