Someone e-mailed me to say that the Beginner's Guide was ranking on page 3 for "SEO" at Google - just behind Matt's blog. I took a peek and sure enough, there it was: ...
There have been way too many posts regarding Matt lately, but one more can't hurt (can it?). Over at Threadwatch, they're collecting ideas for Matt to post about on his blog. Stop on by and contribute - if he picks your subject, you get a prize (which is, ironicallly, Matt talking about your subject)....
In a cruel, unambiguous and brutally honest fashion, Matt Cutts ripped apart a link network today. I'm feeling really bad for them. Here's what Matt said: My favorite overall moment was when a totally legit company (micromatic.com) stood up and asked fo...
Good interview with Matt Cutts from Phillip Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped. I particularly liked this bit about valid HTML and rewarding it in the rankings: People sometimes ask whether Google should boost (or penalize) for v...
Dr. Garcia emailed me today with a very nice update to his article on Targeting Documents and Terms Through Co-Occurrence Data. It was a great piece when it came out, and his refinements only serve to make it more usable to the general SEO populace. It's my view that only the insane don't give Dr. G and his work respect, but that's ...
In SEOChat forums Brandall has done a nice summary about Google's Matt Cutts' presentation in PubCon. Coming from the horses mouth there are several very interesting issues that tell how google is fighting again...
The Onion has a dynamite article on Google's plan for unindexable information. From the source: "A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest," John Battelle wrote in his widely read "Searchblog...
Google's new analytics setup looks impressively slick. That data, on the other hand, goes right through to big GG themselves, so all of you e-commerce nuts with cloaking, pop-ups, low co...
You can call yourself a search engine marketing specialist only if you know what people search. And one of my favourite services for this purpose is Google Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist shows search patterns, trends...
Google's Personalization Patent (warning: unreadable) got some press when it was released two weeks ago. Sadly, I wasn't able to review it at...
Wow... I'm incredibly impressed by the new Yahoo Maps beta. Why do I love it? Zooms in on mouse wheel scroll Has labeled city districts on transparency overlay Can show live traffic...
Donna's got a good post on the topic of paying for the sins of former domain owners and why buying that old domain name may not be as worthwhile as you may think. From Donna: Should we pay for the sins of a former domain owner? Moral of the story...If the search engines...
Many of the emails I've gotten in the past week have been concentrated in the area of real estate. These are the standard post-update panic attack type messages, but the focus made me think. Then I was pointed to ...
As much as I think site explorer is a great idea, in practice, it's still not as useful as Yahoo!'s normal linkdomain command. There are some fantastic features in there that I use all the time, for example: Removing sites from the list as in a search for ...
