I’m heading out in the morning to attend PubCon in Vegas. It should be an exciting couple of days. It will be the first time in a very long time that I’ve attended a search conference without being a speaker. That means I can go out and party without having the thought of my unfinished [...]

Both Aaron and Danny have posted great follow-up pieces about the WordPress spamming case. For those of you who don’t know about it, here’s a quick recap: Last February, WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg signed a deal with a notorious search engine spammer named Chad Jones. (aka HotNacho). In exchange for cash, Matt agreed to host [...]

I’m pleased to announce that it is finally safe for women and children to once again return to their computers and resume their normal web searching activities. Thanks to Gordon Hotchkiss, and his fellow righteous SEO brethren, we can all navigate the web without ever having to encounter the life-threatening debris known as search engine [...]

Matt Cutts recently posted a comment about how disrespectful it was to auto-generate doorway domains named after fatal hurricanes. his specific comments: If you’re going to autogenerate spammy doorway domains, here’s a tip: don’t name them after fatal hurricanes like Katrina: It’s not only a bad idea, it’s disrespectful. So my question for Matt is [...]

To be honest, I didn’t even realize that Yahoo had a minimum spend. Turns out, the reason I was unaware is because it was only $20.00! The most amazing thing about the announcement is the fact that so many people seem thrilled that they will finally have the opportunity to test out Yahoo’s paid search. [...]

So how is it that someone who has gone on record dozens of times as absolutely despising everything involved with blogging end up sitting in front of a computer monitor hacking away on a stock copy of WordPress?