How can you become an authority?
In my last post, I pointed to a WMW thread that discusses SEO terminology. One of the defined terms was: Authority Site - A site that may or may not have Google's trust but does have respect and trust from [...]
Googlebot crawling CSS files now?
eKstreme posted about seeing Googlebot fetching a CSS file (via his logfile). He's only seen it the one time, however, and is asking others to check their logfiles as well. I vaguely remember someone at Pubcon Vegas (I think it [...]
Default search engine quest ends
Back on 12/11, I mentioned that I was on a quest to find a new default search engine. For one week each, I was going to try Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. This past week was Ask's turn. All in all, [...]
Z-List Meme
Eric Enge told me about the latest meme that is spreading which is geared towards highlighting blogs that deserve more attention than they may be getting. Started by Mack Collier, it gives link love to blogs that deserve it. To [...]
Next on the using a new search engine series
Following up on my test of using other search engines series (started here and continuing here), last week was MSN's turn (or, Live). MSN didn't fare as well for me as Yahoo! did. I didn't have a horrible experience when [...]
SEM for emerging markets
Over the years, I've occasionally wondered what it would be like to do search marketing in other countries - especially those that aren't on the cutting edge. Today, I got that question answered by an SEM firm based out of [...]
Avatar advertising gone wild
Have you looked at DP (Digitalpoint) threads lately? If so, you may have gotten confused about why so many avatars all look the same. Why are there nearly 250,000 posts showing SiteSift avatars? Well, that's because Stuart McHenry had the [...]
Trickle down effect of a dying DMOZ?
A friend pointed out a scenario that could be coincidental or not, so let's discuss. DMOZ, as you all know, has been having its share of problems for a while now. At times, hitting the site causes it to be [...]
Google Webmaster Tools Sitemap Verification Troubles
Suddenly, all my verification statuses have reverted to Pending and attempting to reverify just results in a message that "We are experiencing a large number of requests for verification. We'll process your verification request as soon as possible. Check back [...]
Rant: Google data refreshes suck
I just had to say it. Time after time, with each data refresh that Google pushes out, I see old data being pushed through. Once in a while, they seem to get it right, but more often than not, the [...]
