Okay the most widely anticipated event in search is now upon us, we have waited months for it… No, not the PageRank update, I am talking about… The SEOmoz Comic Strip Rebecca Kelley of SEOmoz does comics good and her newest comic strip does not disappoint. I have made my comic strip debut in them! [...]

Google provided the most specific and actionable guidance on purchasing paid links to date during the “Are Paid Links Evil?” session of SES. I think this fact has been overlooked. I have often been critical of the way that Matt Cutts has distributed information on “nofollow” and paid links in the past. It is hard [...]

After her SES keynote conversation, I asked Marissa Myers about iGoogle usage. She let me know that “15 to 20 percent” of all Google homepage visits go to iGoogle instead of the traditional homepage, she also said that the amount of iGoogle users in the “tens of millions”. This is a telling number, as many [...]

During the CSS / Ajax / Web 2.0 session Vanessa Fox of Zillow highlighted poorly constructed web 2.0 websites which were not following some of the simplest foundations of SEO. To illustrate her point she used Sphinn… Danny will be so proud. It turns out that all the comments on Sphinn are in Ajax, rendering [...]

The big event starts Monday, and I know people who are coming from as far away as Australia to attend it (what up Shor) and of course the host of regulars will be there too. I, on the other hand, wasn’t going to go because of some serious lack of planning (with just a dash [...]