It's never easy to admit to being dead wrong, but in this instance, it would be doing the SEO community a great disservice not to make my mistakes public. In a thread at SEOChat - More on Term Weight..., I abuse members of the notion that keyword density can be used to calculate the importance of a term or phrase in a given document....
I'm not someone who likes to jump on the bandwagon with everything Mr. Cutts has to say, but his latest blog entry is a must-read. It's on the subject of two items - moving a domain to a new web host and moving an old domain to a new one. In the case of the former, Mr. Cutts' advice is no different than what any experienced w...
Jim's got a great list of the types of results Google delivers. This needs to be filed in the "so true it hurts" column. It's also worthy of a link since Jim appears to be the only other blogger in SEO who's posting after midnight on a Wednesday....
From Slate's article "Has Google Peaked?": When I think of Google, I think of the arch-villain Mr. Big from the James Bond film Live and Let Die. His diabolical plan: Flood the streets with free heroin to drive out competing suppliers and dealers. Once users got hooked on his free smack, M...
A great page from John Sofwa, a math PhD and founder of Vivomind Intelligence (who could really use a new website), gives a thorough explanation of many of the ...
I noticed a thread at SEW where two Yahoo! reps are individually seeking new employees. Not sure if it's a competition, but it's funny to read one after the other: I work for Yahoo Search marketing here in Pasadena.. Anyways we are hiring like crazy, all across the boa...
I recently posted a question and poll over at SEOChat.com about moving a website from Domain A to Domain B. I wanted to hear some first-hand reports of what would happen - my fear was that the site would drop into the sandbox. Several members, including Randfish, posted detailed accounts about what happened to their site when making a similar move. Some went into the sandbox and others suffered si...
While poking around trying to find a site I had seen over the weekend, I came upon a listing of Google's own blogse...
Flickr, the clever photo-sharing service that was bought out by Yahoo! earlier this year has been offering clustering displayed tags for some time now (but today was the first time I used it). I'm a bi...
With the help of some friends from SEOChat, I've compiled a list of 93 metrics that may play large or small roles in determining how search engines rank documents in a query. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it does offer a great deal of information about each factor, as well as a relative measure of each factor's perceived importanc...
Matt Cutts is one of the friendliest, most fun people to be around at an SES conference. But, like all of us, he's not infalliable and is prone to make mistakes once in a while. Far be it from me to criticize him, however, as I too have notorious errors of judgement ...
As much as it pains me to have to give ground to the industry giant, Google appears to still have the edge in index size. Despite Yahoo!'s claims to over 19 billion web documents indexed, in a very good report from earlier this week, Matthew Cheney and Mike Perry from the Univ...
I thought this was fascinating (note the screenshot). Someone tried adding the SEOmoz feed to their personalized Google page and found that Google was instead trying to pull data from socengine.com/seo - which is where...
This sort of thing really scares me. Via Matt's blog, Google recently placed #1 in every category in a US government (actually from the NIST Speech Group) sponsored ...