There was big news Wednesday morning that sent ripples throughout the SEO world. If you haven’t heard yet, on July 29, the Associated Press reported that Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc. finally merged. Now, there are a lot of details and some obstacles facing this Microsoft-Yahoo deal. But if and/or when it happens, will it [...]
Removing a Ban from Google
June 29, 2009 by 5 Comments
Banned from Google? Ouch. Anyone who’s been banned from Google before knows that it’s not a fun ordeal. As of June 22, 2009, a report shows that google.com is used for around 90% of all searches done on the internet (worldwide). And with the next closest search engines in the running being 85 points away [...]
Get Down & Dirty With Your Website Code
June 12, 2009 by 2 Comments
According to Google their mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. I might add that they are also striving to provide the best user experience possible. One aspect of SEO that is either looked over or forgotten is the technical side. I am not referring to the optimization of website [...]
New Sitemap Generator Tool from Google
January 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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 Generator takes a [...]
Death Knell of Google: Could it be SEO?
August 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment
A few days ago an article by Chris Williams was published in the Guardian UK about the death knell of Google—and that the perpetrator of this death would not come by competitors like small-time Cuil or Yahoo!, but by SEO. Am I biased? Well a little (this is a blog at “SEO”.com). However, I believe, [...]
Google Gets Flash-y
July 1, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Until now, creating a site in Flash was a sure fire way to guarantee zero search engine visibility. Sure, there were things you could do like sIFR and SWFObject, but these and other work-arounds required some extra work and a level of expertise. Adobe just announced that they are working with Google and Yahoo to [...]
Matt Cutts Does Domain Roundtable
April 20, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Matt Cutts made an appearance today at the Domain Roundtable conference. Matt started things off with a few introductory comments, then spent most of the time answering questions from the audience and from questions that people sent in ahead of time. Here are the highlights of what he discussed: The primary litmus test for whether [...]
Search Marketing Tops $12 Billion in 2007
March 18, 2008 by Leave a Comment
According to the SEMPO report released yesterday, search marketing spending ended up being even higher than expected last year. Good news for people like us in the SEM space. Most of the money is going to paid search (87%) with organic SEO picking up about 10%. Some of the key findings from the report: The [...]
Top Searches on Google for 2007
December 15, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Every year Google puts out a year-end Zeitgeist report highlighting the top searches and rising searches for the year. They just released the data for 2007. It’s interesting to see what people are searching for and how it changes from year to year. Here’s the top 10 rising searches on Google for the year: Global [...]
