A couple of weeks ago at SES London, a very nice interview came out with Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik on several important SEO and webmaster relevant topics. Adam answers some questions about Flash, JavaScript, duplicate content (especially with press releases) and he also suggested uses of internal site nofollow tags and website architecture to [...]

A case study:
You hear it and see it all the time in the domaining industry. A hyphen in a domain will decrease the value of that domain name and search engines often devalue hyphenated domains as these are often ‘copycat domains’ or 2nd grade content domains. Although I agree this is true in some cases, [...]

The Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West conference took place this week. I was reading up on some of the highlights and came across this very nice interview with Matt Cutts (google’s public figure and main google engineer) which is definitely worth the watch. Although the first half of the interview was quite personal (which [...]

Today, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft (MSN/Live)  and Ask are all announcing cross-host submission for easier management of sitemaps. This will make it a lot easier for webmasters to manage multiple sitemaps.
Here is how it works:
For those of you not familiar with sitemaps, a sitemap is a file that contains the URLs for the pages on [...]

Today, Google Adsense updated their terms of service (TOS). The announcement was posted here and you will also see a message when you login to your adsense account with the updated TOS. It has been almost 2 years since the last update. The last significant update was made in November 2005.
So what are the most [...]

This feature is probably unknown by most of you but could become very useful for increasing your users/client Google search experience and relevancy. It is called a Subscribed Link, and it allows you to “create a custom search results that your users, clients or members can add to their Google search pages. Wow!
What is Google [...]

On 29th of Feb (leap day) Google will be holding a hachathon for anyone interested in participating. It will be help at their  Mountain view facility in the ‘The Googleplex building’. If you are in the area and an expert JAVA programmer then it may be a fun day for you to attend. Google says [...]

WELL Well well … What I am about to discuss will make a lot of webmasters very happy and at the same time many ‘Search Engine Ranking Report’ companies are about to go out of business!
It seems that Google never ceases to amaze us and the Google Webmaster team have recently launched a services within [...]

This news came out in December 2007 but I think it is still worthy of a mention and it brings up some very interesting issues. A major Canadian ISP modified the Google.ca homepage to bring member relavent information to their internet users.
In doing this, they in essense are destroying Google’s “Clean” look and feel [...]

This is an area I have been very involved in the past years - Getting images ranked in Google. And I can tell you that this area of SEO can return enormous fruits if done well. It is especially relevant if your site has useful images to offer to it users. Why not SEO those [...]