I was actually surprised that I was invited to the Searchification event MSN is throwing tomorrow because I haven’t been much of a Live Search supporter over the last year or so.  As someone who was involved in the early stages of the MSN project (even before the original Search Champs) I ended up being [...]

  Todd and I just finished recording today’s SEO Rockstar show.  (We had planned on doing a live show, but we are both heading out today to attend MSN’s Searchifcation event).  The show will be broadcast today at 4:00 pm PST. At the end of the show, we spent some time giving out some good [...]

We’ve been doing a ton of custom WordPress development lately. Right now, I have 5 or 6 projects sitting on my desk that need custom themes, and several more coming up next month. If you are a CSS/XHTML Guru who can handle cranking out 10-15 custom designs for us on a monthly basis, give me [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the SEO challenges Bodog faced when they woke up one morning and discovered all their domains have been seized.  Since that post, Bodog managed to not only reclaim most of their brand specific SERPS, they also have been able to maintain and overall traffic level to the [...]

I’m not sure how it is in other states, but in California vanity license plates are huge. Just spend one afternoon driving through SoCal and you’ll know what I mean. You almost always end up spending the time you are stuck in traffic trying to decipher the clever custom license plate on the car in [...]

The cool thing about a specialized vertical social site like Sphinn is you tend to get a better concentration of smart people contributing  stories to the community. But that’s not always the case. Rose Desrochers posted a link to a story claiming BlogCatalog doesn’t pass PageRank because their links contain OnClick. Her evidence was a [...]

The most common question I got throughout the summer was “What happened to the Rockstar show?” The answer is that it went on hiatus for awhile do to scheduling conflicts. No matter how hard we tried, Todd and I couldn’t seem to come up with even a two week chunk of time where we would [...]

Things have heated up a bit in the Bodog domain dispute case. Since I posted about it last week, Calvin Ayre entered into a North American licensing agreement with the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group. The agreement turns over control of the Bodog trademark as well as all Bodog domain names to MMGG. That means any [...]

Early last week, Bodog Entertainment lost control of over 3000 domain names, including bodog.com due to a default judgment in a patent infringement case. I’m not going to delve into the specifics involving the suit, or the potential ramifications to the web as whole, because that has already been covered in great detail in other [...]

Monday marked the official end of summer, which means my self-imposed blogging hiatus is now complete.  Going over 4 months without regularly reading any blogs or blogging myself was quite enlightening. The biggest thing I learned was how much time I actually wasted drifting around in the blogosphere every day.  Not starting the day firing [...]