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Man i can't wait to start testing with these :).

I'm very curious to see how Google is going to handle this.

Looks like right now all we can do is sepculate on this.

Still fun though

Yes i believe so.

It should come down to your link profile (and language of content). If you have a site with French content and a lot of French links (links from sites hosted physically in France and are written in French and have a .fr extension) to a .org domain it will likely rank well in google.fr amongt .fr domains

But what about an exact match tld.  Inter.com isnt 100% exact match hehe.

like pizza.vegas (*query pizza vegas)

real-estate.miami (*query real estate miami)

EDIT: 
i put an extra N after 'a exact match' whilst the post was still uploading, causing this double post.

But what about a exact match tld.  Inter.com isnt 100% exact match hehe.

like pizza.vegas (*query pizza vegas)

real-estate.miami (*query real estate miami)

Hey Mozzers,

Auctions for new top level domains (examples of top level domains are: .com, .net, .info, .org etc) concluded in the summer and will become available from january 1st.

Did anybody bid/buy a new tld or know someone who did?

And who has plans to register new exact match domains?

My hobby is poker and i have a big passion for it so im already thinking about .poker domains.  play.poker, texasholdem.poker etc.

Here is an overview with TLD's that will come available:|
http://www.newgtldsite.com/new-gtld-list/

I also like .amsterdam (my home town) as  TLD.

What are your thoughts on this? I haven't heard or read much about this in the SEO community so im interested in getting a discussion started.

Hi Matt thanks for you reaction,

I'd normally never go after directory links for an international site, but i think in the Netherlands there is something 'special' going on here.  People in Holland seem to use these directories as there 'homepage'. They are called startpagina's with www.startpagina.nl being the most authoritive one. It seems like Google values these links like any other natural link.

I'm making these conclusions after looking closely at other big players in the niche im working in.

When researching http://www.independer.nl/ http://www.easyswitch.nl/ and http://gaslicht.nl/ in open site explorer the highest rated links seem to come from these type of directories/startpagina's. They get links from subdomain directories/startpagina's that are closely related to the keywords they are trying to rank for and often have exact match anchor texts.

When i saw this i thought i could easily replicate these link profiles over time, but would only take over links from pages with good stats: PA 45+ and PR 2+.

This is how i bumped into http://auto.beginthier.nl/ with PR 0 and PA 53. Btw this site was created in 2002 according to archive.org. So its not a new page. Maybe it's the architecture as you suggested then coz the homepage has Pr 2 and the rest 0 http://www.beginthier.nl/.

Check out the image below,

It's a great infographic on Rich Snippets from Selena Narayanasamy.

Hope it helps.

a-visual-guide-to-rich-snippets

Check out the image below,

It's a great infographic on Rich Snippets from Selena Narayanasamy.

Hope it helps.

a-visual-guide-to-rich-snippets

I sometimes see sites with PageRank 0 but Page Authority 50+.

For instance http://auto.beginthier.nl/:

PageAuthority = 53
mozRank = 4,64
mozTrust = 5,69
Root domain links = 42
PageRank = 0

How should i interpret these stats? If or instance i'm optimizing for a car related website (a site about: car parts, car insurrance, classic cars), would these be a good place or a bad place to get links from (ignoring the benefits of direct traffic)?

PA = 53 (very good) Vs. PR = 0 (very bad)?

Totally agree,

Have seen this a few times in the past.

Major SEO changes, big drop in rankings for 2/3 weeks. Then rankings gradually return.

@Dana: Keep us posted, im curious to see if in a few weeks time things have improved

Haha,

Good ol googlewhacking, it can be a lot of fun, but ofcourse you want to find one in the end ;).

I've added a little clip of comedian Dave Gorman.

He recorded (quite a few years ago) a live stand up after writing a book of his googlewhack adventures.

His goal was to find 10 people who had found a googlewhack. I wouldn't know where you'd be able to find the full version of it. It definitely worth the watch :).

More information about his googlewhack adventure on his site http://www.davegorman.com/projects_googlewhack_adventure.html

Have fun and goodluck Googlewhacking and if anybody finds one be sure to misspell it when posting it anywhere :).  Like bamboozel guzzler --> bam--b00zle guz---zl3r

Let's see who can find the shortest long tail Googlewhack :D.

watch?v=kTxB2SVH-7s&feature=relmfu

Hi there everybody,

It's the end of a long day and i have a few minutes to spare. So what better way than to spend those minutes on the seomoz forum.

As you might have already noticed this isn't a serious technical question, but more of a fun google related one.

As the title suggests..... Do googlwhacks still exist ?

For the people not familiar with a Googlewhack, its a 2 word search query that comes back with a signle hit in the SERPS.

Here are some examples of what used to be googlewhacks (which they aren't any more pretty much the moment someone writes about it and Google indexes it and gives up 2 results):

bamboozle guzzler

unmerciless politician

inculcating skullduggery

antiestablishmentarianism psycho

Who else remembers the good ol' Googlwhack days?

P.S. SeoMoz mods, I have no clue in what category to place this topic :). It's just a fun question, thats  all.

Thanks again for your input,

The reason this question arrose was because i was thinking of a news structure from a users perspective and my collgeague from a technical standpoint. Also he showed me how a friend of his got to the first page in the serps simply by moving a lot of related content under a subfolder.

This i found hard to believe, that simply putting in content under a subfolder would make the higher subfolder automatically rank higher.

Up to 5 years ago i thought sites rank well because they write a lot of articles, then i in 2007 i started reading up and focussing on SEO and understood that its not about quantity but quality and hierarchy and that really got me interested in SEO.

So i thought a 'traditional' news category like www.example.com/news/ with related articles (inter)linking to related subfolder landing pages would be a logical experience for the user and thus for bots. But 'sparring' with my colleague who is imo a very good programmer, made me second guess myself and the situation, and thus i ended up asking the great seomoz community :).

So thanks again for the input and will probably have the articles both under www.example.com/news/topic-article1/ and under www.example.com/topic/news/opic-article1/ (with a canonical tag on it).

Also i have never thought about the concequences for CTR in the SERPS using the dates in the url's. Thats a very valid point and wil have to take a look at how 'evergreen' the written news articles are.  Comming to think of it I also unconsciously ávoid' sites with urls showing old dates when searching for something specific. I even goes as fas as changing the date range in search settings.

I've added a video for you enjoyment. It's the one and only SEO Rapper from way back when... enjoy

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Hi Mat Bennett,

First of thanks a lot for thinking about my predicament and giving a well-structured reply.

The reason why i asked the question had to do with the placing of news articles on our website.

Initially i would say news articles should go under www.example.com/news/article-title/ or similar www.example.com/news/2012/october/article-title/

But my colleague has placed news under a theme related section like this www.example.com/related-topic/news/related-article-title/ with the idea that this would boost www.example.com/related-topic/ for the keyword ‘related-topic’.

His thinking is that google looks at the url like this -> www.example.com/related-topic/news/related-article-title/ then checks out www.example.com/related-topic/news/ and then google crawls www.example.com/related-topic/.

So by placing a lot of theme related news articles in a subfolder google would crawl www.example.com/related-topic/ more often. His point being the url is optimized for google and menu structure and links onsite are optimized for the users experience. After reading your reply and some more discussion, we will probably end up doing the following -> Create a news system then place the news under www.example.com/news/article-title or www.example.com/news/2012/october/article-title.  And also place the news articles under the related main categories like so www.example.com/related-topic/news/related-article-title/.

And to avoid duplicate content issues www.example.com/news/article-title would be canonically linked to www.example.com/related-topic/news/related-article-title/ (this being the ‘original’).

This way we should cater to both the user and search engine.

What do u think of such a setup?

P.S. movie tip. I watched ‘Indie Game - the movie’ last night and it was very inspirational.

For instance www.example1.com/cooltopic/ has 5 ‘verycool articles’ under /cooltopic/

www.example1.com/cooltopic/verycool-article1/ , www.example1.com/cooltopic/verycool-article2/.

On www.example2.com/cooltopic/ there are 100 ‘verycool articles’

Who will rank above the other for the term ‘cooltopic’ in the SERPS? Is it www.example1.com with 5 ‘verycool articles’ or www.example2.com with 100 ‘verycool articles’. Or does the quantity of (theme related) articles in subfolders not matter?

And what if example1.com has more quality external links from the ‘awesome community’. Would this change a lot in the rankings?

Or what if both domains have 0 external links, but example2.com has 95 more internal links (from the articles) to /cooltopic/ than example1.com with only 5 articles.