GoogleBot Now Indexing JavaScript, AJAX & CSS

Improving the way that GoogleBot parses and interprets content on the web has always been integral to the Google mandate. It now seems that GoogleBot has reverently been bestowed the ability to parse JavaScript, AJAX and Cascading Style Sheets. In the past developers avoided the use of JavaScript to deliver content or links to content […]

Panda Talk

Back at SES Toronto I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel with Thom Craver, Garry Przyklenk,  and Terry Van Horne with Jonathan Allen moderating; chatting and answering questions about the Panda update.  After that session Jonathan interviewed us about some of the key points.  It’s a great 6 minutes with a large number […]

First Contact

Well today was the first day I had the opportunity to speak on Webmaster Radio. The topics we covered today included the importance of the alternative engines (to watch upcoming technologies and for traffic), the YouTube/Google deal, and Yahoo! announcing they’re now respecting the noodp meta tag. You can listen to the piece by clicking […]

Google, Orion, SEO & You

Every now and then an event occurs that changes how the SEO community views the way websites are optimized and structures promotions. The purchase of the rights to the Orion Algorithm by Google and equally important, the interest that both Yahoo! and MSN took in the algorithm as they vied for ownership themselves, marks just […]

SEO For The Big Three

Ranking your website highly on one of the “big three” search engines (Google, Yahoo or MSN) is a daunting task let alone ranking your website highly on all three. Three engines, three algorithms, three different sets of rules – and yet there are websites out there that have first page rankings across them all – […]