Green Llama

As we’re still seeing updates from Google’s recent Pagerank slap, the word on the street ( and by street I mean Interweb ) is that PR is meaningless, and no one should be concerned about a PR drop. I say this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Advertisers today look for hard metrics to help [...]

I’ve angered the Google again, it seems.  Green Llama dropped from PR4 to PR1 for no apparent reason that I can figure.  I haven’t seen a PR update on any other of my sites - just this one. How annoying.

Ahh yes, Google Hell - the dreaded Supplemental Index.  Google has decided that most of the content here at the Green Llama isn’t worthy of regular search results, and I’ve been kicked down to the dungeons.  That is why, of course, most of my traffic has come from Yahoo, Digg, and various links here and [...]

On my last post, What should my company name be?, I was presented with this Google Adsense ad right after the post:

Just for the record, no, I am not gay.  Just in case anyone was wondering.
I’ve seen a lot of goofy, way off-target Adsense ads here at Green Llama ( which is a topic for another [...]

Michael Gray, aka Graywolf, famous for his SEO blog, has a problem. See, he bids on his name, Michael Gray, on Adwords. Naturally, his name appears all over the place on his site - in fact, it appears on every single page as far as I can tell.
The problem is that Adwords gave [...]

That makes Q4 2006 a record quarter for Google - and with their success, that’s saying a lot.  Revenue for the quarter was up 67%, or $3.2 billion, while profit was $1.03 billion American dollars, which is almost triple the $372 million they made in Q4 2005.  It sounds like that whole quality score [...]

Not 5 minutes after I posted about Google Checkout’s prominent place on Google.com, it’s gone!  Is it gone for everyone else too?
Just when I think I have the big G figured out, they go and mess with my head.

Google Checkout made a big appearance today - right on Google’s homepage. And not the usual discreet text link by itself, either - no no. Google even decided to throw some money on the table - $10 the first time you us Google Checkout. It’s all right there on Google’s search page [...]

Yes folks, that is Billion with a B. According to the press release, YouTube will keep it’s brand name ( duh ) as well as all of its employees. Eventually the plan is to merge Google Video and YouTube.
Now I’m a Google fan through and through - I haven’t used another search engine [...]

Google Trends is an amazing tool - and it helps you discover things that you may never have figured out otherwise. In the spirit of Steve Rubel’s post a few months back, here’s my list of 16 things Google Trends has taught me. Some are just proving what we already thought, and some [...]

Google is one of the top five searches on the internet. Yahoo and MSN can’t be too happy about that, can they? When you search for Google at either of the lesser Big three, you’re greeted with 2 search boxes. I can just hear them saying: “Hey stupid, you’re already at a search engine”. Via [...]