What started out as a friendly rivalry between Bing's Duane Forester and Google's Matt Cutts  resulted in $17,000 for the Movember, a moustache campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, specifically prostate cancer. Mike Halvorsen set up the competition while at SMX Advanced. There were 83 participants in the Search For The Cure team, many familiar faces from the search community. Duane Forester, the team captain, raised $3,667. Matt Cutts raised $3,721. SEOs were exchanging photos as well as quite a few digs at each other all month via Twitter using the #seostache hashtag [...]

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Mike Halvorsen has set up a special competition this November to help raise money for Prostate Cancer Foundation and Livestrong. The competition is on growing a mustache and both Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Duane Forrester are participating. Duane blogged about it on the Bing Search Blog saying, "Schema, Sitemaps and ‘staches: What do they have in common?" Nothing really, except that those involved in schema and sitemaps are participating in this competition, known as Movember. Here are the rules: On Movember 1st, guys register at Movember.com with a clean-shaven face. For the rest of [...]

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Google's Matt Cutts has just issued a "weather report" about upcoming changes to be expected from Google's Panda algorithm. If you're not familiar with algorithmic weather reports, sit back and learn. Because they're back, and that's a good thing. Before There Was Panda, There Was Florida At the end of 2003, Google released what became known as its Florida Update. Now kids, if you think Panda was bad, Florida was a storm that seemingly blew the roofs off SEO homes everywhere. It hit during the holiday shopping period. It caused confusion and havoc among many SEOs. Search engine optimizati [...]

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Yesterday we had a Dilbert cartoon telling us to say no to black hat SEO and today we have a Dilbert cartoon telling us to say no to paid links: The comic reads: Employee: "Google found out that we use fake links to boost our search rank." Employee: "Now our website only shows up when someone enters the search string "dung for brains."" Boss: "They won't get away with this!" Computer [aka Google]: "Shut your pie hole." That is two in a row from the Dilbert cartoons on the topic of SEO. Related Articles Dilbert Cartoon Says “No” To Black Hat SEO Those Specia [...]

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This morning's Dilbert comic is on the topic of black hat SEO. Dilbert wisely decides to avoid those tactics: The comic reads: "I want you to use "black hat" methods to raise our website's ranking on search engines." "What do you like best about that ideas - the fact that it's unethical or the near certainty of getting caught?" "That's sort of a loserish thing to say." "Talking doesn't work for people like me." Scott Adams: No Stranger To Google It's probably best that Dilbert decided to stay with acceptable practices. After all, creator Scott Adams depended on Google for go [...]

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