Archive for August, 2007

Greg Jarboe of SEO PR led this session off, calling Google Universal Search ‘the biggest shift in the SEO industry since the Google Florida update of 2003.’ News stories, videos, local maps, and even blog posts are now appearing inline with everyday ‘Web’ results on a number of Google SERPs. News publishers are particularly affected [...]

Bill Tancer of Hitwise gave perhaps the most applicable analysis of the session, at least as far as small businesses are concerned, on what’s happening in the world of search. 65% of all searches in the United States in July of 2007 were executed on Google. Year-over-year, Google has gained about four percent, taking most [...]

OK, so I won’t exactly be “live blogging,” but stay tuned for updates throughout the week. Looks like there are going to be some great panels at this year’s Search Engine Strategies Conference. Among the ones I’m most looking forward to are: Monday Universal & Blended Search Personalization, User Data, & Search Tuesday Are Paid [...]

It’s been well-chronicled throughout the SEO community — much in the same way that Germans love David Hasselhoff, Google loves Wikipedia. It’s becoming exceedingly rare for ANY search done using Google NOT to return at least one Wikipedia result somewhere in the top three positions. It’s particularly true for searches for famous people, TV personalities [...]

Bill Slawski, who is probably the world’s foremost search engine patent expert, authored a post today that spoke to some of the factors Google looks at when deciding to display local information. Bill’s article isn’t necessarily concerned with advice on how to use Google’s patent to your advantage, but rather a more objective look at [...]

With the ongoing interest in SEOmoz’s Premium Membership Landing Page contest, and this recent post from Sphinn which caught my attention in last night’s feed, I thought I would weigh in with my two cents on the value of this service from the SEO industry’s hottest Emerald City crew. For SEOs – Why YOU should [...]