Daily Search Coverage:

Ask having crawling issues with some URLs? Google short changes Australians. Does blocking a country from accessing your site put you at risk with Google? Are link reports ordered by page importance? Matt Cutts and paid links get into a huge fight, kind of. Amit is featured on the Google AdSense blog. Sphinn’s heros! Yahoo’s Souders is joining Google. Google trademarks a bunch of words. Baidu’s CFO dies in an accident.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

  1. Ask.com Crawler Inserting Url-Encoded Spaces in URLs Causing 404 Errors?
  2. Google Inverts Australian Exchange Rate, Pays AdSense Publishers Less by Accident
  3. Does One Incur Google Penalties for Blocking Entire Countries?
  4. Does Google Order Link Reports by Importance Factors?
  5. Matt Cutts Talks About Paid Links — Again
  6. Google AdSense Team Acknowledges Amit Agarwal
  7. Three Unsung Heroes of Sphinn

Search Engine Land Topics:

  1. Yahoo’s Chief Performance Expert, Souders, Joining Google
  2. Google Trademarks Knol, Android, OpenSocial & More In 2007
  3. Baidu’s CFO Dies In Holiday Accident

Daily Link Finds:

Daily Link Finds GraphicThis is the December 31st issue of a daily post that will contain links to commentary of the posts over at the Search Engine Roundtable. All links I find throughout the day that ad some commentary to the posts written over at the Search Engine Roundtable, will be in the Daily Link Finds. The purpose is two fold: (1) To help people find discussion around our articles and (2) To thank people for linking to us. How do I find these links? Only one way, via a Google Blog Search link command, so make sure that (1) you are in Google Blog Search and (2) link to us.

Daily Link Finds for December 31st, 2007: