SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 15, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: PageRank
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 7, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 6, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Latest In Link Development
Rae Hoffman has released her second annual set of interviews with link building experts. This year, she talked to 11 people in the search industry who are well-versed in the art of link development. Link building is a fundamental pillar of search engine optimization. Links from authoritative sources are strong reputation signals for factors such […]
Making a Good Impression With About Us Pages
Sipping on a cup of coffee on a Wednesday morning in the lounge of the local bowling alley last summer, surrounded by shop keepers and insurance salesmen and other small business owners, I hand out my business card. Most of these merchants have actual places I can visit, while all I have are pages they […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search in Pictures: Google Cake, Banana Room, Kate Nash @ Yahoo
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 17, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Directory Update Showing “Real” PR Scores?
Google PageRank Directory Clanger by Andy Beard informs us that Google recently pushed out an update to the Google Directory on the 8th of January. What that means is that Google pulled the most recent ODP RDF dump file and updated the Google Directory with that file. But more importantly, Andy also notes that the […]
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories Of 2007
Below are Search Engine Land’s 25 most popular stories, in terms of pageviews, during the 2007 calendar year.
The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year’s "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engines stand on the subject.
Scoop: Google Responds To Rep. Joe Barton’s 24 Privacy Questions
As we covered earlier, US Representative Joe Barton sent Google a letter with 24 questions relating to privacy — along with a week to answer them. I was annoyed that some seemed basic and already answered in a way that one of his interns could easily uncover. But Google’s now replied to the letter with […]
Vote Now For 2007’s Funniest Search Blog Posts
I’m now taking nominations for the 2007 top 10 list of the funniest/most irreverent blog entries in search. Why? The search industry is important. I mean, what industry (besides the sex industry) can singlehandedly cause Google to change its vaunted PageRank algo? However, on occasion we tend to take ourselves too seriously. I have always […]
Google & Human Quality Reviews: Old News Returns
A quote from Google’s director of research Peter Norvig in an article at Technology Review about how human reviewers assess Google’s search quality is starting to pick up play on the web and will no doubt grow. Problem is, it’s not news. Still, I suppose it’s interesting to those who are new to the space […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 13, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
How Changes To The Way Google Handles Subdomains Impact SEO
At Pubcon last week, Matt Cutts mentioned a change in the way Google handles subdomains. To better understand this change and what this means for search marketers, let’s revisit common site structure choices, how they’re handled by Google, and how that impacts SEO.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google’s Matt Cutts On Video About PageRank & Subdirectories
Michael McDonald of WebProNews conducted a video interview with Matt Cutts of Google and Vanessa Fox, our Features Editor. I highly recommend you watch the 15 minute video, which goes over the recent PageRank reduction for selling links and the subdomains vs. subfolders topic.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Answers More Questions On Paid Links
Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank from the Google Webmaster Central blog answers more questions about the recent paid link regulations Google has set forth for their index. The main reason Google is going after paid links is because of “inaccuracies” in results and “inequities” in ranking those results. Google says that […]
November 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from November 2007:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 29, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
This has been a remarkable year. After years of no real dramatic evolution in search, the third generation finally arrived. Google calls it Universal Search, and I’ve been tending to say “blended search” as a generic name for the change that’s now hit all the major search engines. But in doing the agenda for our upcoming SMX West conference, a […]
Google Adds “Selling Links” For PageRank To Link Schemes Page
Google Blogoscoped reports Google has updated one of their help pages to include the words “selling links” when discussing link schemes. On the Why should I report paid links to Google? page, Google changed the document to add the words “selling links” through the page. One line now reads:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Mysteries of Ad Quality Revealed (Yet Again)
Perhaps it was lucky fate that Anders Hjorth (of Relevant Traffic, a European SEM agency) and I didn’t have too much time to compare notes going into the panel “Tuning Ads for Quality Score” at SMX Stockholm last week. Fortunately, the presentations didn’t overlap too much. The interesting thing is the overlapping conclusions we drew […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Survey Says: No Sites Gained & Many Lost PageRank
SEOmoz reports that after reviewing the PageRank scores of over 30,000 web sites, none of them showed any PR gains and about 4 percent registered a drop after Google’s first big wave of PR changes. In a second wave, there were finally some gains.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Five Ways Link Builders Hurt Themselves
In the wake of the mass hysteria over Google’s recent PageRank decreases, devaluing of certain links, and the resulting rankings drop many people experienced, I’d like to offer some perspective and advice. First, my rankings at EricWard.com didn’t drop one spot. And remember that my site is 100% devoted to link building, so I have […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 1, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
10 Useless SEO Worries (Part 1)
I often feel sorry for small businesses. I do. Too often they don’t have the funds, time, or resources to investigate things as thoroughly as they should. Unlike larger businesses with deep pockets, small business can’t hire first-rate, high-end SEOs to do all the right things for them. All too often they have to rely […]
October 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from October 2007:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 29, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Updates PageRank Again? Adjusts Paid Link Penalty?
Andy Beard reports that Google seems to have made their third PageRank update this month. This one appears to have reversed some of the downgrades in PageRank seen by some sites. We know that some of the PageRank changes were due to paid link selling, as we reported was happening back in early October in […]