SES Chicago, Blogger & Paid Links

Today’s post is a rushed hodge-podge of topics. A lot is going on and yet – time is short. I’m rushing through last-minute stuff to make sure I’m ready to head to Chicago tomorrow morning for SES. SES Chicago is already underway but I only get to be there for the two days I’m speaking. […]

MSN Takes A Blow

As if the folks over in Microsoft’s search division didn’t have enough woes in their lives lately (and by “lately” I mean for all the years after people started using search engines) the data released by ComScore yesterday paints a bleak picture. Until yesterday they were at least able to call themselves one of the […]

Google Updates Offerings

Thanks Google – Now I Can See My Backlinks !!! Only a couple hours later and there’s already an update below. Well today appears to have been an even bigger day than I first thought. First there was the launch of Yahoo!’s Panama and now I’m reading in Google’s press center that there are some […]

Google Update & BotNets

Let’s begin our post here with an update on Google PageRank. There is an update underway. Now, before any of you panic that your PR has just dropped, take a peek at your competitors. During the last toolbar update I noticed a TON of sites making huge gains. While I’m always pleased to see my […]

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 Google

This article is part three of a four part series on optimizing your website for the the three major search engines. Part one, titled “SEO For MSN” covered optimizing your website to rank highly on MSN, while part two, titled “SEO For Yahoo!” covered optimizing your website to rank on Yahoo!. In this article we […]

Google Hosting?

It’s pretty much a given, what Microsoft strives to be in the OS arena Google strives to be on the ‘Net … everything. From a recent discovery by ZDNet’s Garett Rogers posted on their Google blog Garett reveals his discovery that hidden in the GMail code is the following line: function vJ(){if(uy){;return”+”Manage this domain”+” | […]