Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google Realtime Search quietly disappeared the moment Google+ arrived. With the Twitter deal expired, the story is likely over — at least for now.
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.
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.
Facebook's much-hyped announcement turned out to be something Google did three years earlier with Google Talk. If the idea was distracting from Google+, it didn't quite land.