It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to build a strong group blog. You need to establish a brand, build a team of knowledgeable bloggers, create quality content, and basically work your ass off for very little reward. In the end, if you do t......

As Google is coming under ever increasing scrutiny and pressure (such as the ruling against it in Italy, and the inquiry the European Commission has allegedly started), it goes ever more on the defensive....

Back in December of last year Google announced it would be rolling out its Personalized Search feature to all its users. Searchcowboys has written before about the pro's and cons of Personalized Search, but what has the true impact been so far?...

About nine months ago I was facing a sizeable site migration project at my employer at the time, and I was tasked with mapping out the best way of handling this migration to minimise the impact on our search engine rankings.I wrote a post on Searc......

A couple of months ago Google launched its Social Search feature in an opt-in beta. This new search feature was intended to enrich SERPs with results from your social media contacts. Surviving a mixed reception for this new search feature, Go......

To say that search engine optimizers work in a turbulent industry is a bit of an understatement. Regarded as thieves and scammers by some, a necessary evil by others, SEO is seen as a serious discipline by few outside of the industry. Part of ......

It's one thing that goes wrong more than often, a site gets renewed or migrated and when they're done they forgot that they had to do SEO. Barry Adams adressed this problem in his post "SEO Concerns When Migrating Your Site". A must read and well ......

In light of recent concerns about Google's (lack of) regard for privacy sparked by the global roll-out of personalized search, the open letter from Jonathan Rosenberg (Google's senior VP of Product Management) published yesterday is meaningful.......

Last Friday Google almost carelessly mentioned in a blog post that "20% of Google search queries are ones we haven't seen in the past 90 days". This is an interesting statistic and can be interpreted in a number of ways....

Last week Google announced it would roll out Personalized Search worldwide, and turn it on by default for all users who don't explicitly opt-out. As most users won't understand nor care to opt-out, this means the vast majority of users will start ......

With a website's load speed likely to become a ranking factor for Google in 2010, webmasters will have to find ways to speed up their website so as to ensure they won't drop in SERP rankings....

Google has published a proposal to make AJAX crawlable by search engine spiders. Up to now AJAX code, by virtue of being based on JavaScript, is not crawled by search engine spiders as these crawlers don't execute the JavaScript....

The international copyright lobby, financed by media conglomerates, is gaining traction among European governments. The French have already succumbed to pressure from these lobbyists and have finally managed to adopt, after several aborted attempt......

For quite a while the automatically generated links below every Twitter post ("about 5 hours ago from twitterfeed" for example) were normal, followed links. This gave clever SEO's a loophole to quickly generate tons of followed links by building a......

I'm one of those people that has to look at the keyboard while typing. As a result when using Google I barely notice the search terms suggested to me. However, apparently many users do notice and follow Google's suggestions....

A while ago we reported on the pagerank sculpting bombshell that Matt Cutts dropped at SMX Advanced. Some time has passed and the SEO world has been brewing solutions for this change in pagerank flow. One idea put forward by Rand Fishkin from SEOm......

Some news from across the pond: a group of American advertisement associations has published a set of self-regulation principles to "protect consumer privacy in ad-supported interactive media". These principles boil down to seven guidelines....

Yesterday at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, Matt Cutts from Google revealed that PageRank sculpting - using the nofollow tag to take PR away from some links and give it to other links - apparently no longer works....

Microsoft's new search engine Bing (previously known as Kumo) has unexpectedly gone live yesterday, June 1st. While initially it seemed like a partial go-live, as only a few locales were supported, today Bing seems to support a wider array of coun......

The new issue of Wired magazine boasts an excellent article on the economics that made Google great: Googlenomics, the auction-based system that drives not only Adwords but many of Google's internal operations as well....