SEO & GEO26 Aug 2011
Google spam report page updates
Google's spam report page has a new look and better granularity. Hunting down paid linkers is thankless work — but every report feeds a pattern, and patterns become rules.
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Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
SEO & GEO23 Aug 2011
Arghhh!! My site has disappeared from search engines
Before shouting that Panda has de-indexed your site, check the basics. A short list of the quality factors most people forget to look at first.
SEO & GEO19 Aug 2011
Google Page Speed Service. The velocity has its own price
Google's Page Speed Service promises up to 60% faster sites by routing DNS through their data centres. Tempting — but pointing the domain at Google gives them a lot of power.
Digital Marketing17 Aug 2011
Google Extended Sitelinks: the above the fold battle has just begun
Extended sitelinks push the rest of the SERP well below the fold. A few thoughts on what that means for organic traffic and for the PPC bidding scramble that follows.
Tips15 Aug 2011
ColdFusion: enable the robust debug info
Shared ColdFusion hosting often locks down robust debug info, which is exactly what you need to find the bug. An old trick to get it back — via email.
Digital Marketing13 Aug 2011
LinkedIn changed its privacy rules
Under the guise of giving more control, LinkedIn quietly opted everyone into social advertising. If you're not happy to endorse brands unwittingly, here's how to opt out.
SEO & GEO10 Aug 2011
Google realtime search currently on hold
Google Realtime Search quietly disappeared the moment Google+ arrived. With the Twitter deal expired, the story is likely over — at least for now.
SEO & GEO8 Aug 2011
Bing improves its quality guidelines?
Everyone talks about Google's quality, nobody talks about Bing's — and yet Microsoft has just published a rather sensible vademecum on what makes a quality page.
SEO & GEO5 Aug 2011
Combining forces to accelerate innovation: Bing and Yahoo work as a single entity
Yahoo's search back-end has been switched over to Bing across twelve European countries. From an SEO standpoint, there's now one less algorithm to worry about.