Yesterday, on the Rockstars show, I mentioned that we would soon be starting some new R & D projects. One of those projects involves the Google Litterbox.

Are you interested in being a search chimp? For the first time, MSN is taking open invitations for its Search Champs program. They’ve asked those of us who have participated in the past to pass the invitation along to anyone we might think would be interested. I figured that if you are actually here reading [...]

Site #1 TLB: .info Date Registered: April 2005 PageRank: 4 Number of pages indexed: 114 Number of Backlinks: 112 Types of Backlinks: Small business directories and some industry related sites. Site #2 TLD: Doesn’t have its own domain. It’s a subdirectory of free web hosting .com Domain Registered: June 2000 Number of pages indexed: 23 [...]

Throughout the years, all search engines have taken turns denying that there is ever any hand manipulation involved when it comes to their stellar search results. At the same time, those of us who have been in the business awhile have all managed to witness what we feel are clear cut cases of hand manipulation.

I got to say, I’m quite impressed. I thought Google would ignore Brett’s robot.txt ban long enough for him to come to his senses and figure out a better solution. But that’s not what they did. WebmasterWorld has been completely removed from Google

While I was browsing through today’s posts at SEW, I came across a post on the topic of affiliate networks and SEO. The basic question presented in this thread is this: Is it possible to structure an affiliate tracking system in such a way that the links used by affiliates end up helping the merchant [...]

Well it didn’t take long for some people to realize that BT could use some help getting all of those 2,050,000 pages out of Google. And Danny also brings up a good point about how long it should really take for WebmasterWorld to go missing from SERPS. If search engines are hitting that robots.txt ban [...]

Brett’s decided to finally deal with that nasty ingrown toenail by amputating his entire foot. I’m certainly not going to question the problem of rogue bots crawling WebmasterWorld. I know it’s something he spends alot of time on. (I think he’s even banned me a couple of times). But banning all bots just to get [...]

Shortly after stage 2 of the recent Google algo update began, I received an email from a panic stricken ex-client. He woke up on a Monday morning to find all of the recent gains we had made Google were gone. I was a bit shocked to hear this because this particular project was as "white [...]

OK, I made it back from Vegas in one piece. I’d love to give everyone a rundown of all the great sessions, but I can’t because I only managed to make it to two of them. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any good scoop to report. Some of the highlights: 1. Hearing that Anne [...]