by Scott | Aug 7, 2006 | Google, Search Engines
If you’ve searched for anything over the weekend, you may have noticed some new formatting on Google for the number one result, where they’re showing (after the ad of course) the top ranked site, then 5 more one line listings right below it for that same...
by Scott | Aug 4, 2006 | Google, SEO, SEO-101
Today Google has unveiled a new interface / site / screen or whatever they’re calling it that is designed to give webmasters some resources all in one place. It’s called Webmaster Central. I didn’t see anything brand new there at first, except a...
by Scott | Aug 3, 2006 | Google, SEO
Matt Cutts’s lightning round today dispelled two popular SEO myths… 1. The myth that .gov or .edu links are more valuable for your PR than others. That’s not the case, and Google has no more weight given to one than the other. 2. The myth that you...
by Scott | Aug 2, 2006 | Technology News
If you have a spare 4 minutes and 57 seconds, you have to listen to this recoding of someone trying to cancel their AOL accopunt. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. When I cancelled my own AOL account nearly 8 years ago, I went through much the same...
by Scott | Jul 31, 2006 | General interest, Kids issues, SEO, Technology News
I was watching Matt Cutts’ video responses to the deluge of SEO questions he got over the weekend, and I noticed an integrated button saying “Email – Blog – Post to Myspace”, so I hit it. Then I could instantly post to: MySpace –...
by Scott | Jul 28, 2006 | SEO
I had a relative recently ask me what a search engine consultant is. I explained that there are “things that need to be done to your website, to insure that the search engines could properly find it”, and that it’s really become quite a big industry...
by Scott | Jul 28, 2006 | Google, SEO
Matt Cutts is having another Grab Bag day going at his blog. I actually posted a question about Google recently removing all references to the supplemental index from it’s help files. There are some other great questions there too, and it will be interesting to...
by Scott | Jul 26, 2006 | Google, SEO
Nothing, now! I just tried to send someone to Google’s own definition of Supplemental Results, and find that all references to them have been removed from Google’s help files. Why would that be? Looking at Google’s cache of their own site, I see that...
by Scott | Jul 25, 2006 | Google, Search Engines
Probably not, but that headline peaked your interest, right? Still, the reason I’m wildly speculating is that there’s an article on SEO Speedwagon, along with a screen shot of a google search where they talk about something odd. It seems that in a google...
by Scott | Jul 24, 2006 | Local news, SEO
Arguably one of the most well known search engine placement firms in the country, SEOMOZ is based in Seattle, but serves clients all over the world. Using Portland’s Pearl District website as an example, Rand Fishkin has posted an excellent article about what...
by Scott | Jul 23, 2006 | Search Engines, SEO
It looks like there’s a better place to submit a reinclusion request than the one put forth by Matt Cutts in his blog. Do it from your Google Sitemaps account. Everything Matt says to do, from admission of guilt, to an apology and the assurance it won’t...
by Scott | Jul 23, 2006 | Microsoft
From the days when I owned a computer store in Portland Oregon, I’m still a Microsoft partner, and it was past my renewal. While logged in to the Microsoft partner site, I attempt a renewal, and here’s the message I get… You are using an unsupported...