I'm thrilled that Xan Porter is back among the active ranks of search industry bloggers. We've really missed her. She's on a bit of an SEO-related kick, too, which is terrific. The latest posts include: A Method of Removing Spam from the Index...
There's a new Google hack (or something I was not aware of) in town, and I'm in love with it. It allows you to see an estimate of how many pages in a specific domain are supplemental results. To see the hack in action, just type the following at Google: site:www.mydomain.ltd ***i.e. SEOmoz...
Google has been using "onebox" results for travel related searches since at least October of 2005. I'm forced to wonder if, during the entirety of that period, Google's been sending the default link to Expedia. For example: I searched for Seattle to New York and got:...
In honor of recent news that Matt Cutts likens SEOs to, as Threadwatch put it, "hackers and criminals", I've composed a little song set to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal." Enjoy!He went on Webmaster Radio From t...
Almost everyone in the industry who's had a chance to interact one on one with a Googler in the past 6 months has probably noticed that it "feels" different from the interactions of the past 3 years. Robert Scoble did a good job describing it with regard to his recent visit to the 'plex...
Although it's a bit hard to follow, Dr. Garcia (aka Orion), who operates the Miislita site and blog, has a great blog post on the Latest SEO Incoherences (a clever acronym pun on LSI). He ta...
Matt Cutts brought up an interesting point about the Google Terms of Service. Basically that scraping them is against their Terms of Service. Most websites these days have some type of TOS but I've never heard of one actually being enforced. I know that if you're being a good guy and a...
Rand got me all excited with his post. I've been tracking down the French vertical of "web design / website design" theme of keywords for the last 12 months. This vertical is very similar to the English one. As an example, if you wanted to score well for Web Design in English on Google.com, you would try to hit, in the long term, the best keywords, like:...
I was checking out seomoz to see how it's rankings have been in the past week or so as you can see here.While perusing the page I found it rather humorous that this search on alexa resulted in amazon ads for Orgy of the Dead as seen below....
I haven't had much time to read through Google's New Patent App - System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results - but we should all be tha...
AOL search data - why am I posting this under Google? Because AOL uses Google for their search.I recently grabbed a copy of the AOL search data that was released earlier this month. The dataset is rather large - 450MB compressed - over 1.4GB uncompressed in MySQL.This...
Here's the last belated Matt Cutts video transcript. This one was posted on Matt's blog on August 8th (and there's a shout out to yours truly!). It exclusively has to do with the launch of Google Webmaster Central, which Rand covered in a ...
Late Sunday, August 6th (or early Monday, August 7th), Matt recorded another video about tips for the upcoming Search Engine Strategies in San Jose. I know that SES already passed, but I figured I'd transcribe the video, anyway. Once again, my comments...
Sorry for the delay in transcribing Matt Cutts' videos. This one was originally posted on Matt's blog on August 7th (Video: Reinclusion Requests) while we were all in San Jose. The transcript is verbatim below; I'll italicize and bracket my personal comments. Reinclusion requests...
