Google’s Keywords Tool & Personalization

I’ve got two topics to cover today – Google’s keyword tool and Google’s personalized results. Let’s start with their keyword tool … Google’s Keyword Tool (and my problems with it) Today I’m not going to focus on the common question, “Is the data accurate?” It’s a good question but one which is likely, “Yes if […]

Google: The Good With The Bad

I wanted to have time to write this blog post yesterday but wouldn’t you know it – work and clients had to come first. 🙂 Two interesting events occurred recently over at chez Google. The first, the good news – Google rockets into space. The second, the bad news – Google is involved with investors […]

Life Without Google

Alright, maybe not life entirely without Google but let’s face facts (and I’m sure even the folks over at Google would agree) there are lots of great minds out there and not all of them work at the Googleplex (shocking I know). I’ve recently been giving quite a bit of thought to all the different […]

Google Returns To “Normal”

In today’s episode of Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm Jim Hedger and I discusses a couple recent events at Google. Namely the release of their Q1 earnings (SURPRISE – they’re up over last quarter) and Yahoo! using Google’s paid ads instead of their own. Rather than re-hash “old news” (OK – it was earlier today but you […]

Google’s Cat Out Of The Bag

In what can only be considered a devastating leak of information from Google HQ in Mountain View, a confirmed but as yet publicly anonymous executive from Google has leaked papers detailing some of the key fundamentals to Google’s link value calculation system. The announcement by Google earlier today details some of the contents of this […]

Google Replies

Well the fine folks over at Google have come up with a response to Friday’s bid by Microsoft for Yahoo! Now, believe me – I understand that business is business and that Google has to respond with a negative spin against their competitors but the blog post and press release they put out made me […]

Google And SEO

Today on Webmaster Radio I had to host the show solo. Our sympathies go out to Jim Hedger who had the unenviable task of heading to Toronto for a funeral. Our hearts go out to Jim and his family. Todays show however was a great one. We launched our 10-show series on SEO with a […]