Marketing Pilgrim

Google has made a change in how they categorize internal and external links in Google Webmaster Tools. A post on the Webmaster Central blog goes into detail (while generating a few more questions along the way.
Here’s the gist.

1. WWW and non-www sites are treated as the same site
2. Sub-domains are now treated as internal links

This chart shows how these changes will look.

Google assures webmasters that this will not impact the total number of links that the webmaster will see but it will reclassify many links from internal to external and vice versa.

We live in a data driven world and the more accurate the data the more accurate our work (in theory).

Sometimes it feels like when something is released or announced in the Internet space you wonder “Didn’t that already happen?” The unheralded and unhyped announcement came via a post on Google+ by SVP of Chrome Sundar Pinchai.

That’s about as low key an announcement as you will ever see. To see the comments visit the post here.

As MG Siegler of TechCrunch points out

…the Google +1 Button extension allows you to “+1 a web page, anywhere you go on the web”. That’s important. You no longer have to rely on a site to implement the +1 Button, you can invoke the functionality through your browser.

Right now the button is only available for Google’s Chrome browser and there have been no indications as to when it may show up on other browsers as well.