RSS

JCPenney & The NYTimes: A Story About Google, Paid Links & SEO

Paid Links, JCPenney, New York Times & 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 | 6 Comments

User Experience Fail: The Super Bowl 45 Ticket Fiasco

Worst seat at Super Bowl 45? I mean, I can see some of the field.

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 | 0 Comments

WTF, Gawker? You Redesigned All Your Sites?

Hey Gizmodo. Disable Javascript and this is what you see: Nothing.

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 | 16 Comments

Some Big Websites Suck at Non-WWW to WWW Redirects

The unforgivable sin of usability: homepage URL unreachable

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 | 4 Comments

The Day the Internet Saved 52 Horses in Barnesville, Ohio

Original Facebook Status Thread by Lynn Boggs regarding the 52 horses in Barnesville, OH

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 | 41 Comments

New Google Robots.txt File Disallows Eric Schmidt from CEO Directory

New Google Robots.txt file disallows EricSchmidtBot 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 | 3 Comments

Monitoring Historical PageRank Trends & Changes

Monitoring Historical PageRank Changes & Trends

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 | 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 | 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 [...]

June 9, 2010 by | 0 Comments

Location Services: The New Local Search? (SMX Advanced 2010)

Up First: Michael Martin, Owner, Mobile Martin Gowalla Foursquare MyTown Where brightkite geodelic Google Latitude Loopt Whrrl Layar: augmented reality information service (hold your phone up and get data) Buzzd Check.in Nearly 50% of online search has a location intent, especially on mobile devices Potentially a $20B market SEO options: microformats (more and more of [...]

June 9, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Page 3 of 1012345...10...Last »