Hey everyone, Rebecca here. I'm back from San Jose (and San Diego for a brief R&R), and I have GREAT news. Apparently my toiling over transcribing Matt Cutts' videos has paid off big time, because he and I are totally BFF (best friends forever). Seriously, check this out: ...
At the Google Dance this evening, Gillian (SEOmoz's co-founder and president), found the employee badge of a James N. She tried looking around for someone to give it to, but was distracted and slipped it into her bag. I'll try to drop it off with a Googler tomorrow at the conference, but we just want you to know James - your badge is safe and sound. ...
I was watching an episode of Strong Medicine the other day. This particular episode was about a rape victim who had a daughter from the rape that needed a kidney transplant. The only match was the man who raped the mother who was in jail for 25 years.In true Hollywood fashion they glossed over the details of the transplant and had everything worked out and the transplant do...
Poor Vanessa Fox, working late on a Friday night. I felt so bad for her, I just had to post this timely review of Google's new Webmaster Central, which is replacing sitemaps (and including its old functionality). There's a lot of material to cover, so let's ...
Day 4. I can hear the walls. They all sound like Matt Cutts. I know every language family from around the world. My keyboard mocks me. Sweet merciful weekend, will you never come? Can't stop...can't stop transcribing... Matt proudly displays his werewolf vs. unicorn shirt, which depicts the silhouettes ...
A little bird passed me a rumor today that I can neither confirm or deny, but it's certainly worthy of discussion. The theory goes - when launching a new site, buying a significant quantity of AdWords/AdSense for the site is a good way to tell Google the site isn't spam and avoid long waits in the sandbox. Here's my take on this: There is some logic in the idea that a...
If this were America, surely security would haul off this man in a heartbeat. But it's not. This is Japan, land of the weird and wacky (I know, did I mention I lived there for 10 months?) and Japanese comedian Razor Ramon merely brushes them aside with a... thru...
Dear Mr. Cutts,I want to start off by saying thank you for taking time out of your undoubtedly busy life fielding SEO's most burning questions. That being said, I beg you to please stop answering questions via video. I've been chained to my desk for over a day now, and my skin has been rubbed raw from the cuff around my ankle (and from my unsuccessful attempts to gnaw off my own foot)....
Boy, what did I get myself into? Rand has chained me to my desk and ordered me to summarize the next set of videos released by Matt Cutts. This new batch of summaries is more verbatim than the last one, so enjoy.1. Does Google treat dynamic pages differently than static pages?...
Via Threadwatch, I came across some Google videos of Matt Cutts fielding questions that he had received through his blog comments. I was initially quite interested in seeing the videos, as I thought he would be including demonstrations or visuals to aid in answering the qu...
It appears that Google's new checkout system provides an added bonus and strong incentive - namely a nifty little icon that helps your site stand out in the AdWords listings on search results pages. See below: ...
Kudos to Cristian Mezei's SEOpedia blog for a great list of secretive, hidden or long-forgotten pages behind Google's domain. There's more than 25 unique pages listed, but a few of my favorites include: ...
I came across this banner ad from Yahoo! today and was a bit shocked. I love the raciness and implied issues with the genetalia of older men, but I hope Yahoo! is keeping these highly targeted as I could certainly imagine that it wouldn't play well with much of their demographic. ...
More sandboxing problems at Google with a big name brand - this time it's Chris Pirillo's TagJag site, which was 301'd several weeks ago from the Gada.be domain. Let's see what the search engines have to say about this high profile move.... Yahoo! (tagjag.com) ...