In some Microsoft office somewhere, exact location unknown, a grown man is undoubtedly stroking his beard deviously and mumbling, “Lok’tar! As of Friday, a WoW-inspired translation of Google’s honeypot word appeared when Google’s own Andy Arnt...
Site Structure - SEOs Going Fishing Without Any Bait, AndyBeard Online Reputation Management: Living Radically Transparent with Andy Beal & Dr. From the SEW Blog: Google Defends Security PolicyDouglas Merrill, Google's VP Engineering, published an...
Site Structure - SEOs Going Fishing Without Any Bait, AndyBeard Online Reputation Management: Living Radically Transparent with Andy Beal & Dr. Organic Search Google Serves Up Search Within Search ResultsYesterday, Google announced that it is...
Lowering The Google Red Flag - Sidestep The Cash Hungry Bull, AndyBeard Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines...
PageRank Is The Primary Google Search Ranking Factor, AndyBeard Here we are again, after a wonderful (in my mind) victory by the Giants over the Patriots in Super Bowl 42. For anyone that did not catch the Super Bowl advertisements, Fox has...
PageRank Is The Primary Google Search Ranking Factor, AndyBeard Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from...
Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago, AndyBeard From the SEW blog: Organic Search Super Bowl Advertisers Mostly Unprepared, Search-wiseAdvertisers pony up big bucks to create and air an ad during the Super Bowl, then fail to prepare...
Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago, AndyBeard Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make, AndyBeard Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make, AndyBeard I am looking for a good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) book to give to those decision-makers who will never actually do SEO, but who cut the check or approve the time spent for SEO.
Page Rank Drops For Popular Digg SitesAndy Beard reports that following the recent paid link hunt, Google seems to be cleansing their database of sites popular in Digg. Judy's Book to be Sold or ShutteredLocal search pioneer Judy's Book is folding...
According to AndyBeard (whose site was also affected), another PageRank update is in progress. With all the guessing and theorizing about Google's recent PageRank update, there's now at least confirmation that the update happened, and why.
AndyBeard reports that following the recent paid link hunt, Google seems to be cleansing their database of sites popular in Digg. While these sites seemed to have just had a significant amount of their PR dropped, the impact on SERP positions for...
As a side note, the “beard comb-over” commercial was in my opinion one of the funnier ads aired. It may be nice to have an HTML page which leads to videos of the ads, should I search “Sierra Mist beard comb over.
It may be nice to have an HTML page which leads to videos of the ads, should I search “Sierra Mist beard comb over. As a side note, the “beard comb-over” commercial was in my opinion one of the funnier ads aired.
As observed and commented on by AndyBeard, the "nofollow" is not universally observed by search engines. Per a directive from Jimbo Wales reported in Wikipedia Talk, all external links in Wikipedia are now "nofollow.