Recently Google announced the unleashing of Google’s “Real-time search” in the search engine results. Matt Cutts covered it in his blog. This is a new feature that will facilitate Google to provide up-to-the-minute updates (“freshness” and “relevance”) on any search inquiry/subject a user researches.

According to Amit Singhal of Google (responsible for Google search algorithms), “Light can travel around the world in 1/10th of a second, and we won’t rest until the speed of light is the only barrier to getting good search results to you.”

How to use the Google Real-Time Search Feature:

Matt Cutts said in his blog that Google processes billions of documents per day for their real time search. Google has really enhanced considerably in speeding up the crawling and indexing procedure, which is exceptional even with the already-enormous and mounting size of the web.

Step 1: Go to www.google.com

Step 2: Type your query and press “search.”

Step 3: When the results load completely, find “Show options” under the search box. Click it.

Step 4: Under “Any time,” click “Latest.” This will let Google give the latest results (real-time search results).

It is very extraordinary that Google is still able to grant updates as early as “1 minute ago.” This is very fast, and is really “real-time.” You can even observe that Google regularly adds updates even when the browser is not refreshed as indicated: “New results will appear below as they become available.”

One feature I noticed that was neat was the Twitter updates included in the Real-Time Search Results as seen below:

To stop receiving frequent updates, you can click “pause.”

Google endorses reputation management and tells people “Publish positive content about yourself” and “get stuff that you want people to see to outperform the stuff you don’t want them to see.” This has always been the foundation of a reputation management campaign.

The advice is basic: Create a Google Profile (free and easy also not effective for pushing down stuff). Ask happy customers to review your business online (may create more negative items). *Publish positive content about yourself (*this is the good advice is our opinion).

It is motivating to see Google offering tips on how to “get stuff that you want people to see to outperform the stuff you don’t want them to see.” Reputation management can sometimes be a controversial issue – some people think it’s disreputable to create and optimize content for the express purpose of displacing negative content surreptitiously. Google’s endorsing it in today’s blog post, and offering suggestions for how to make it happen.

Google seems to be trying to do some preventative customer service here also. You can visualize the quantity of emails (and maybe phone calls) Google gets from businesses and individuals who are displeased about what they see when they Google themselves. The blog post by Google basically says, would you stop asking us to clean up the search results you don’t like about yourself?

“Rather than immediately contacting Google, it’s important to first remove it from the site where it’s being published. Google doesn’t own the Internet; our search results simply reflect what’s already out there on the web.”

Not only is Google possibly trying to slim down the amount of email and phone requests but maybe they are also attempting to prevent any future law suits files against them for results they display.

In closing it seems that Google has endorsed reputation management and using reputation management companies to help you gain control of what people see about you.

Google Profiles Looking Weak To Me!

I recently entertained the idea of creating a Google Profile for myself and went through the process and decided to not use it. Why? Well, it did not have many feature that were up to my expectations, at least from Google. As far as reputation management goes, it will make a 1st page listing at the very bottom of the results page when someone searches your name. I think that is they really want to lure users in and entice them to use Google Profiles they should make the Profiles appear on the top of search results or within the search results like they do videos from time to time.

The #1 use of online profiles (As I See It) is for reputation management and reputation repair. The Google Profile offers very little in my opinion when dealing with reputation repair.

Sure, it is free and you might as well make a profile with them if you are actively repairing  your reputation. The service has a few basic feature and none that really excite me. Here are the features as listed on Google’s site:

1. Receive messages. Enable the ‘Send a message’ feature to allow anyone with a Google Account to email you without revealing your email address.

2. Add photos. Enhance your profile by embedding photos from Flickr or Picasa.

3. Create a page about you. Write a short bio in the About me tab, reveal your superpower, and tell people what you still can’t find using Google.

4. Add your contact information. Share your information with your friends and family, so they always have the most up-to-date information. You control who sees it.

4. Add links to your other profiles and sites. Make it easier for friends to see your other content on the Web. You can link to Google content, including your Blogger blog, public Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader shared items as well as other pages on the Web such as Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

5. Show your location. ‘My places’ includes all the cities you’ve entered on your profile. Your current location and where you’ve lived are displayed on a map.  

The best feature above in my opinion is the ability to link up to your other profiles like Twitter, faceBook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. I guess Google Profiles are not for me. I am certain many people will find a good use for them. If Google adds more visibility features to the profiles I will jump on board also.

What do you think about Google Profiles Service? Let us all know by posting a comment. Google if you read this will you please let us know if new feature may be on the way?

How To React To The Google Ban

Google expects that you should make pages for users, not for search engines: “Don’t deceive your users, or present different content to search engines than you display to users,” they say, and Google goes on to list the following banned advice:

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Avoid Keyword Stuffing – Adding random Keywords In Your Footer.
• Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don’t send automated queries to Google.
• Don’t load pages with irrelevant words.
• Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.

You can get your site back in to Google’s good graces if you follow some simple steps. It may require a complete revamp of your website and SEO techniques, but it is worth the effort.

• First, clean up your act. (Fix the Issues)
• Then send Google a very polite email where you acknowledge and describe what you (or your search engine marketing firm) have done.
• Tell Google that you have read their guidelines and that you will not anything like this again.
• If you hired an SEO firm that spammed on your behalf, release the firm’s name.
• Always Include full contact information.

Do apologize and make no excuses. Google will frequently reply to such polite requests and you may find some of your pages back in the index within a couple of weeks. However, it can take months before the search engine has spidered your complete site again.

The Google Ban Notice – How to get Google to tell you when you have crossed the line

It is in fact possible to get Google to inform you when they deem you have broken the rules.

Webmasters using Google’s Sitemap feature may possibly (we repeat: may) get an email from Google telling them when they have crossed the line.

Google’s Matt Cutts puts it this way:

(…) I think the ideal search engine would also tell legitimate site owners when they risk not doing well in Google. On the other hand, if the webspam team detects a spammer that is creating dozens or hundreds of sites with doorway pages followed by a sneaky redirect, there’s no reason that we’d want the spammer to realize that we’d caught those pages…”

So Google may try and tell you when they believe you have broken the rules. This is the kind of email you might expect:

No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines. Please review our webmaster guidelines and modify your site so that it meets those guidelines. Once your site meets our guidelines, you can request reinclusion and we’ll evaluate your site.

If you find the issue and clean it up, then click on the “Submit a reinclusion request” and fill out the form.

Stay on top of the issue and be proactive in getting your website Re-indexed. Do not bug the spam team every day or every other day. They are very busy and will reply when necessary to your requests. Give it time, you made the mistakes and it is not Google’s fault that you were banned. It is yours or your SEO guys mistake.

Have you ever been banned by Google? How did you react? What did you do? Share your tips below by commenting so others can learn how to fix a Google Ban.

Get Free Reputation Monitoring Today

It is infrequent to hear the word free without some sort of strings attached. In this occurrence, you can really get free reputation monitoring by simply doing it yourself.  It is so simple to monitor your own business or personal reputation online. There are companies that charge a monthly fee of $19.95 and up, to basically do what you can do free.  I believe that a dollar saved is a dollar earned. Before you go out and unearth a paid reputation monitoring service (not to be confused with reputation management), try to do it yourself first.

Here is how to monitor your own online reputation. Since Google has become not only the largest and most popular search engine, it has also become what I refer to as a “reputation engine”. Google usually (quickly in most cases) finds new information online before most search engines do.

All you in actuality have to do to monitor your online reputation is use what Google offers 100% complimentary: Google Alerts – a very effortless service that sends you an email whenever it discovers search results for the terms or keywords you chose, such as your name or company name.

Many online reputation management and monitoring companies tap in to this free service then charge you for something that costs nothing. It is so easy to set-up a Google Alert, all you need is an email address and you are set.

Head over to Google and set-up your own Google Alert today and you will know when something new hits the internet about you or the keywords you choose.  I use it and I love it!

If you launch a new website and want to get it indexed by Google faster and get a few backlinks as well, here is a method I have used that works. This is a very simple SEO technique that anyone can and should do.

1. Simply copy and paste the links below in to a notepad or text editor and replace the domain name seofriendly.com and www.seofriendly.com with your domain name.

2. Then click or visit each link that you see!

3. That is it! Your Done.

This will get your new website some backlinks and indexed fast.

Here are the sample links. Remember to replace our domain: seofriendly.com with your domain name!

1- http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.seofriendly.com

2- http://www.statbrain.com/www.seofriendly.com

3- http://www.builtwith.com/?seofriendly.com  

4- http://snapshot.compete.com/seofriendly.com

5- http://www.aboutus.org/seofriendly.com

6- http://www.quantcast.com/seofriendly.com

7- http://www.cubestat.com/www.seofriendly.com

8- http://whois.tools4noobs.com/info/seofriendly.com

9- http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr…s/seofriendly.com 

10- http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=seofriendly.com

11- http://www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/seofriendly.com/summary/

12- http://whois.domaintools.com/seofriendly.com

13- http://www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/seofriendly.com/

14- http://www.whoisya.com/seofriendly.com

15- http://www.who.is/whois-com/seofriendly.com

16- http://www.robtex.com/dns/seofriendly.com.html

17- http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=seofriendly.com&btnG=Search

18- http://whois.ws/whois-info/ip-address/seofriendly.com/

19- http://whoisx.co.uk/seofriendly.com  (Failed To Work)

20- wikifox.de  (No Longer Works)

21- http://searchanalytics.compete.com/s…s/seofriendly.com

Do you have any tips on getting indexed fast? Comment and let us all know.