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 [...]

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?