SEO & GEO27 Oct 2011
Looking for an investment? Yahoo is on sale
Yahoo is on the block again, with Google rumoured among the buyers. With Microsoft already running search and ads, it's hard to see what Google would actually be buying.
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Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
SEO & GEO21 Oct 2011
Google sticks hands on real time search (again)?
Google picked up the Wowd patents — a crowdsourced, plugin-based take on realtime search. A bit of speculation on what they might actually do with it.
SEO & GEO20 Oct 2011
Google changes the rules and breaks the web
Signed-in searchers now arrive with their query stripped out — in the name of privacy. PPC keeps all the data, so where exactly has the privacy gone?
SEO & GEO17 Oct 2011
Infographics team up with linkbaiting
Images transcend linguistic barriers — which is exactly why a well-made infographic, paired with a linkbait instinct, can earn the kind of links a press release never will.
SEO & GEO13 Oct 2011
Page quality, the content is not all you need
Page quality isn't only what you write — it's everything a page is made of, down to the last tag. A small rant on rel=canonical used as a useless placeholder.
SEO & GEO3 Oct 2011
Blekko pumped in with funds
Blekko rings no bells outside the industry, but a fresh cash injection and a vertical-search idea built on slashtags may finally let it carve out a niche of its own.
SEO & GEO30 Sep 2011
The importance of a unified dashboard. How would you present data to your customer?
Search, social, display, video — every discipline wants its own report. Some thoughts on silos, stakeholder dashboards, and how to present data without scaring the customer.
SEO & GEO22 Sep 2011
Google Top Contributor Summit: my experience
Back from the Googleplex: notes from the first global Top Contributor Summit — a big thank you, a few new circles, and a short detour through Carmel and San Francisco.
SEO & GEO12 Sep 2011
Google Top Contributor Summit
After a couple of years of hard work on the Google Webmaster forums, the nomination as a Top Contributor and an invitation to California to meet the product teams in person.