There’s been announcements from Google about this and a lot of speculation and debate about what it will mean, paving the way towards full ajax delivered results and exactly what won’t work etc, but this morning we’ve seen what it means to us, initially, anyway..
They’re changing/ed the referrer string they use from /search? to /url? which will break most (not Google analytics, obviously) stats packages.
What it means to us Woopra addicts this morning, is that although (for some hits, not all yet) it still shows the referrer, when you click it, no longer do you get to see the actual search results they saw (minus the geo and datacenter variations of course, but that’s part of the big picture we’re trying to work out!) instead now you get redirected to your own bloody website (landing page) instead.
nice one Google :-/
on another update note our sulumits retsambew test shot is still in Google’s new post quarantine, the blog domain is now showing at just outside the #100, we would expect that when the post reappears in the SERP we will rise a little bit, but who knows.
We’ve actually got the same thing (sort of) going on with SEO UK too with the wrong post showing too, but this will sort itself out over the next week or two as the site recaches and our internal”balancing” links cache and rearrange things correctly.
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Hey Amigo,
Yeah Google has pushed out the Javascript search results to me also, even when i’m not logged in to Google. Bad news, SEOQuake is totally broken.
Not good at all, i rely on SEOQuake when doing “non SEO/Webmaster” searches to help decide what i click on and to avoid the spam.
So.. For now Yahoo is my default search engine because the benefits of SEOQuake far outweights fancy Javascript search.
Speaking of sulumits retsambew i made a post about that, done nothing and yipes it’s in #3 when i checked today lol.
Hey, did you get my personal message in Woopra the other day?
g’day mate
sorry to hear that dude, pain in the arse when they do stuff like this, and no didn’t get any Woopra messages?
and the contest, well heh heh youre showing at #4 here, – straight in at #3, now that’s domain authority
Good news i found a work around, by using Google’s IP instead of domain name and that defaults it back to the old-school search. Just ping Google so you get your regular Google Geo server.
So that’s “two” workarounds now to remove their wonderful new features. The other is adding /webhp?complete=0 to the end to remove their Google Suggest. I’d much rather get a drop down of what “I” have previously typed in Google than what they think i want. So my homepage/new tab URL is now:
74.125.45.100/webhp?complete=0
Call me old school, but i’m quite happy searching the same as i have done for a decade without the fancy javascript annoyances.
Yeah quite odd that competition ranking, i didn’t even give the page internal links to get it there. Probably a bit of fresh content boost helping it along.. I should of made that post a week before the comp ended and come from nowhere lol.
Nice work on the WordPress guides too.
hola. re your workaround, good news.
re the competition try search
ha! # 2 today. go on son!!
am going off to our test-shot to link at you.
a month late and #2.
awesome mate, truly very cool.