Recently W3PR traveled up to Mountain View, CA to Google's beautiful campus to attend their first Conversion University. W3PR was one of only about 150 people invited to attend. While a variety of Google's product offerings were discussed, emphasis was…
The biggest gripe that I heard over and over again at the SES conference last September was that Google lacked transparency. Especially in it's reporting on clicks from content sites in the AdSense network.In the next two weeks, Google will…
Shari Thurow, an SEO writer and web developer that i've know for years and respect highly has written an excellent article about common misconceptions about SEO. These are the same issues and questions that I confront regularly.The truth about SEO…
Earlier this month, Sitemaps.org announced a change in robots.txt usage. The organization which is a collaboration of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, made the change to allow sites to tell search engines where to find their sitemap. For directions on how…
Today, Google launched its new universal search. Now, when you do a search, Google will give you a combined results page that will include websites, books, archived news, and video. Try a search for Star Trek, you'll see links to…
Yes, like a much of America, I watched the Super Bowl. I Tivo'd it and later skimmed through to watch ... the commercials! Yes, I like football and yes, I was sad to see the Bears lose, but like any…
I recently received a forwarded email from a client asking about the validity of the claims in the email. It was from a spammer saying that they could guarantee 1st place in Google. My client was asking if that was…
We got the announcement today that Yahoo's New Ranking Model goes live February 5. This is the change to the PPC ranking algorithim that was announced at the SES show back in August '06. According to the article, Yahoo will…
The October U.S. Search Share rankings are out and to no one's surprise, Google is still King with almost half of all U.S. searchers using Google as their search engine of choice. That's up 23% over the prior year. Yahoo…
The top three major search engines have agreed on a sitemap protocal to make it easier for their spiders to index content. This article does a good job of laying out the basics. But, if you'd really like to dive…