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Reports: NameMedia Lays Off 30 

Unconfirmed reports suggest domain giant has laid off 30 people. Xconomy is citing unconfirmed reports that NameMedia, parent company of Afternic and BuyDomains, has laid off 30 employees. Please note that Xconomy has been unable to confirm the layoffs as of yet. I have reached out to multiple employees at NameMedia and will update this post as more information becomes available.

As of September 2007 the company had 136 employees according to SEC filings. NameMedia filed to go public back in November 2007, but obviously the stock markets have not been favorable to IPOs since then.

Google’s SEO Starter Guide

Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, “What are some simple ways that I can improve my website’s performance in Google?” There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it’d be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites’ crawlability and indexing.

Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.

UK Domain Registry Nominet In Crisis

Oxford, England based “dot UK” root domain name registry Nominet (a not for profit organisation) has this week been thrown into further turmoil as controversially elected nominet board member and leading IP attorney Jim Davies wrote to the board demanding the resignation of both the CEO Lesley Cowley and Chairman Bob Gilbert. As if this wasn’t bad enough, the situation has now gone to defcon1 after fellow nominet non-executive director Angus Hanton resigned citing his unhappiness “about how the company is being run”.

Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline.

Experts say the precipitous drop-off in spam comes from Internet providers unplugging McColo Corp., a hosting provider in Northern California that was the home base for machines responsible for coordinating the sending of roughly 75 percent of all spam each day.

In an alert sent out Wednesday morning, e-mail security firm IronPort said: In the afternoon of Tuesday 11/11, IronPort saw a drop of almost 2/3 of overall spam volume, correlating with a drop in IronPort’s SenderBase queries. While we investigated what we thought might be a technical problem, a major spam network, McColo Corp., was shutdown, as reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday evening.

Question: How will i know that a website is banned by google in SERP (search engine result pages)?

Wysz: To see if you’re indexed in Google, try a site: search on your site. For example, site:example.com. We may also drop a message in the Message Center of your Webmaster Tools account if we detect an issue with your site.

In general, it’s best to make sure you stay within the webmaster guidelines. If you feel your site may have been penalized, go ahead and fix the problems, then file a reconsideration request.

Parking Rules, Other Options Emerge Slowly

Domain parking continues to lead the way as the primary way to monetize domain names. It’s easy to park domains, and difficult to develop them. EvoLanding appeared to be one of the more promising “instant development” services, but a long-term test of their services found some nice looking sites and essentially no income. Other domain owners have reported similarly dismal results with EvoLanding. Other stories in this issue include Woz keynoting the JanuaryDOMAINfest and NameDrive’s November bonus.

Google can now run Javascript

It appears that the first step in making flash content spiderable Google has added the ability for googlebot to execute javascript. I’m not sure how robust it is but I do know that it can. I’m working with a client that had a very large amount of content that was previously not in Google because the content required javascript to be seen. Out of nowhere this site has over 600,000 pages of new content in Google that was previously not there.

I was very confused at first. I knew that those pages were not there before and that Google should not be able to see them. I put one of the url’s in a spider simulator and the text was being shown. I put it firefox and IE with javascript turned off and content would not show up. I put in in lynx and the content did not show up either. I wonder why and how the top spider simulators are running javascript.

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