Dave Bascom

In Matt Cutts’ keynote at PubCon in Austin, he announced the Friend Connect API. This means is that we will now able to integrate Friend Connect within blogs, forums, content management systems, essentially any site. This change will allow you to add a plugin to WordPress or whatever platform you are using … Read more

Just like the lamb lying down with lion, but the big three search engines came together for a rare joint effort to announce the launch of a new feature that will help ease the world’s duplicate content problems. The new feature, called the <link> tag tells the search engines what version of … Read more

From Speaking on Business Listen here (mp3): SEO.com KSL Speaking on Business Transcript: February 2, 2009 This is Fred Ball for Zions Bank, speaking on business. The Internet has become the marketplace of choice for many business owners. According to statistics from eMarketer.com, a company that provides research and analysis on digital … Read more

Yes, I live in Utah. Yes, I love SEO, and yes, I’m a geek. All three things are evident if you see my new custom Utah license plate featuring my favorite three-letter acronym: SEO. So what kind of car would you expect to be sporting these sweet tags? A Hummer? A BMW? … Read more

Google announced the release of their own open source XML sitemap generator tool. There are several third-party sitemap tools around that do a great job, but Google decided that they could add some value with their own tool. As they describe it: Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap … Read more

It’s been a little over a month since I got my G1 phone from T-Mobile. So far, I’m really enjoying it. My old phone was a Blackberry Pearl, which was a great phone, but this G1 lets me do so much more. Even though T-Mobile doesn’t have the 3G network here in … Read more

Do you search Google for your trophy keyword every morning to see if you’re still on the first page? Do you check more than once a day? If so, you are a rankings junkie and it’s time to shake the habit. Things have changed with the search engines to the point where … Read more

Getting ready for the second day of PubCon in Las Vegas. So far it’s been great. We’ve got a crew of six people from SEO.com here at the conference. I’ve met some great people and look forward to meeting many more over the next couple days. The sessions yesterday were very good, … Read more

I keep hearing about how tough the economy is and I know people who have been hit hard by the housing market, credit crisis, and all that junk. However, for our company, business is booming. We have been growing like crazy and it shows no signs of slowing down (we are hiring). … Read more