Archive for January, 2011

SEO Evolution: Past, Present and Future of Search Quality

Google Web Spam lead Matt Cutts draws mixed reactions in his post regarding their search quality results. This has been in relation to several complaints that Google is not doing enough in handling spam more specifically serving low-quality content farms in its result pages. Rand Fishkin also posted early December about anchor text spam and how the Google team is blindsidedly doing nothing about it.  

Of course you could game Google Rankings, but the question is, how do you play it without anybody noticing? The winner is he who plays the game discreetly…   - Jim Rey

Using Internet Archives for checking Domain Age

internet-archive-as-domain-age-checkerChecking the first archive page is a good indicator of domain age. The largest and most popular archive is the Wayback Machine which contains 10 billion pages collected as early as year 1996, just a year before Larry and Sergey first crawled the internet using a program named Googlebot in year 1997.

A number of Domain age checkers such as webconfs.com are using their library index for domain age. Archive-it and WebCite are other alternatives but with only limited index usually images, pdf’s and newspaper articles.

How to check the age of domain using archives:

  1. Go to Wayback Machine page.