Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
A user on the Webmaster forum swore his 301s weren't working. Turned out to be a silent redirect loop with a named anchor — a good reminder to watch internal links too.
A German group has released a DDoS tool exploiting a weakness in SSL — the same SSL Google has just hidden behind to justify stripping referrer keywords. Convenient timing.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.