What Do We Do With Black Hat SEO’s – Boil Them in Oil or Worship Them?

February 21, 2010

At SES London 2009 the question above was asked of those in attendance – there’s a similar mashup of the 2010 responses, but I like this one better and the lighting is acceptable. This video mashup assembles the answers to that 2009 question in an entertaining way in under 3 minutes. My favorite response was [...]

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Press Release: Yahoo! and Microsoft to Implement Search Alliance

February 21, 2010

SUNNYVALE, Calif., REDMOND, Wash.– (BUSINESS WIRE ) — Microsoft and Yahoo! announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal.
Implementation of the deal is expected to [...]

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Google ‘In Your Social Circle’ Personalized Searches Appear in Beta

February 21, 2010

Google has released a new personalized, custom search result added “in beta” to their search engine results when you are opted-in to the “Google profile” and have shared your Twitter profile, blogs, Picasa, and other public services via that Google profile (I’m also opted-in to Google Buzz). Those you are connected to show up on [...]

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Bing Recipe Search:

January 31, 2010

Bing has launched a recipes search using partners to provide results in a content section hosted at the search engine, in addition to serving up algorithmic results for How to Bake Chicken, you get partner provided, hosted results from three recipe sites on Bing.com
I’ve always wondered why both Yahoo and MSN have focused on partners [...]

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Google Real Time Search Spam Appears

December 13, 2009

This week saw the Google announcement of Real-time search (Twitter, and possibly MySpace and Facebook) by Google into their standard search results. This has got the SEO world talking the potential for Real-Time SEO and of the potential for spam, reputation management concerns and safety issues which might result.
Below is a WebProNews interview of Rae [...]

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Duplicate Content Concerns Adressed by Google’s Grothaus

October 4, 2009

Greg Grothaus of Google Webmaster Central team gives the ultimate Duplicate Content presentation which should clear up the vast majority of questions surrounding dupe content from webmasters. 14 minutes spent here will resolve a lot of concerns by webmasters and resolve questions for a few of those dual SEM/SEO types in which the SEM is [...]

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Google Caffeine Real-Time, Fresh, Fast,

August 12, 2009

Matt Cutts discusses the new Caffeine Sandbox with Michael MacDonald at Search Engine Strategies Show in San Jose. Good stuff to pay attention to, since Cutts suggests that “power users” might notice differences in the rankings between the current default search and Caffeine.
Here’s a suggestion I’d like to make for your testing if you do [...]

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Google Says Faster is Better – SEO Element?

August 10, 2009

Just stumbled across this video this morning, even though it’s been on the Google YouTube channel since June. Probably heard little about it because SEO’s pay less attention to speed than developers, but I’ve always been a fan of accessiblity issues, which SEO’s pay too little attention to as well. Speed and accessibility are related [...]

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Boondoggle SEO – Jill Whalen Stirring up Bad SEO’s

July 26, 2009

Jill Whalen, one of best SEO’s in the industry, stated the obvious last week – that there are bad SEO’s working away with unknowing, uneducated clients – and suddenly there’s an uproar due to the great (link bait) title for her Boondoggle SEO post at SearchEngineLand. Not surprisingly others interviewed Jill because she stated the [...]

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Wolfram Alpha, it’s Knowledge Engine Not Search Engine

May 16, 2009

New technology term to add to the lexicon: “Knowledge Engine”
Very distinctly different from a search engine in that you are not intended to “Find” anything at all, then leave to go look at one of the results you found. The intent here is to learn something and gain knowledge by providing queries to the Wolfram [...]

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