It appears that SearchDex removed their client list from their website. Me thinks they didn’t want Google investigating any of their other clients after the JCPenney paid links drama that went down this week. As it turns out, there are ways of finding information that has been removed from sites.
JCPenney & The NYTimes: A Story About Google, Paid Links & SEO
Did you hear the news?!?!?! The NYTimes told on JCPenney for buying links. Then Matt Cutts went into the secret room at the Googleplex, unchecked a few boxes, and effectively banished jcpenney.com to the depths of SERPs page 5 and beyond. This has got to be the biggest story since 2006, when Google gave ‘the death penalty’ to BMW.de for about 3 days.
February 12, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 6 Comments
User Experience Fail: The Super Bowl 45 Ticket Fiasco
Did you watch Super Bowl 45? If so, you were one of the record 111 million people who watched it on TV. If you were actually at the game, you were one of the 103,219 people in attendance. Amazing numbers, right?
February 8, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 0 Comments
WTF, Gawker? You Redesigned All Your Sites?
Gawker launched a site redesign today. And it’s not very good. At all. Also, the right-side navigation doesn’t ever seem to load completely. But wait! Doesn’t Gawker own several *really* popular websites? Why yes, yes they do. And as it turns out, they launched this new design across *ALL* of their websites: Gawker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, [...]
February 7, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 16 Comments
Some Big Websites Suck at Non-WWW to WWW Redirects
Alright, folks. Today we’re going to talk about PageRank. Oh, I know. It’s dying and/or dead. Ok. Awesome. But it’s still a metric that we can use… at least a little. Like in this post, which happens to be about people not correctly redirecting their homepage URL from the non-www to www version.
February 5, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 4 Comments
The Day the Internet Saved 52 Horses in Barnesville, Ohio
It’s true! It’s true! Earlier today, I noticed a few Facebook status updates that read: 52 thoroughbred horses need homes. Then I saw some posts about how all 52 horses had been rescued. Awesome, right?
February 2, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 41 Comments
New Google Robots.txt File Disallows Eric Schmidt from CEO Directory
My buddy Mike Smith made a funny joke about a new robots.txt file for Google in the post-Eric Schmidt CEO era. I went ahead and made it. Funny?
January 20, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 3 Comments
Monitoring Historical PageRank Trends & Changes
With today’s Google PageRank update, I had to dust off a few old Excel docs. Actually, I pretty much check the PageRank for all of my sites every couple of months, so there was no ‘dusting off’ involved.
January 20, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 3 Comments
PageRank Update January 2011
Well, it looks like Google updated the toolbar PageRank today. And now everyone is going to be checking their sites for PageRank changes. It seems like the last PageRank update was back in early 2010 (April, right?).
January 20, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 0 Comments
SEO Vets Take All Comers (SMX Advanced 2010)
On this panel: Alex Bennert, In House SEO, Wall Street Journal Greg Boser, President and CEO, 3 Dog Media Bruce Clay, President, Bruce Clay, Inc. Vanessa Fox, Contributing Editor, Search Engine Land Todd Friesen, VP of Search, Position Technologies Rae Hoffman, Owner, Sugarrae Internet Consulting Stephan Spencer, VP of SEO Strategies, Covario I’m glad that [...]
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February 13, 2011 by Your SEO Sucks! | 1 Comment