Category: Search Engine Industry News

Over the weekend Reuters reported that Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their ten year search alliance deal for just another 30-days while the two continue to negotiate…

Last night on episode 274 on This Week In Google, Matt Cutts was a guest. And he was able to talk about his announcement about extending his already long leave with Google.

Here is the video:

At around 9 minutes and 50 seconds into the video, they…

Matt Cutts, Google’s currently on leave head of search spam, announced on Twitter that he is extending his leave into 2015.

In July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO space by announcing he would be taking a few months off to spend time with his wife…
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The SEO community is currently talking about the latest news in the industry of a well-known black hat SEO, who is only 18 years old, named Charles Floate…

In June we ran a poll asking you if you think SEO writing should die.

Now with well over 300 responses and a lot of fun comments…

If you are anything like me, you get several sales pitches a day, including one or two requests from companies to outsource your SEO or web development to them. My company on average gets three phone calls a day with SEO and web development outsourcin…

Virtually everyone I know is doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and more importantly, donating to ALS.

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts did his and then challenges members of the search quality team. He challenged Brian White…

Marcia, a personality many of you may remember from the various forums, including WebmasterWorld and many other SEO forums, has passed away earlier this week…

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced on his blog that he is taking “a leave” through October of this year. In short, he is going completely off the grid and not dealing with anything Google related, i.e. his work…

A couple weeks ago, Bill Slawski posted on Twitter asking if SEO writing is dead.

Bill Slawski has been in the SEO industry since the 90s, before even me. :) He writes some of the most detailed and technical SEO posts out there, more than almost anyon…

Shawn Hogan, back in the early 2000’s was known by his company, like I was/am, named DigitalPoint. He and I joined the same circles in the SEO community back in the very early 2000s…

I’ve been writing about search for over 10 years now but Danny Sullivan yesterday celebrated his 18th year anniversary of covering search.

Danny posted the accomplishment on Google+ saying…

I really dislike April Fools, yea, I am not fun. But anyway, you’ve probably seen most of the April Fools pranks from Google by now but let me share some you may not have seen yet.

(1) Google Webmaster Blogs have a reward hiding…

A Dilbert cartoon from last week talks about the process of doing and delivering keyword research to your client or boss. It is kind of funny…

This must be a new trend, SEOs making SEO games for the SEO community. Good link bait…

I don’t often cover these reports but I figured it would be nice to compare year end search ranking market share from December 2013…

There are few people in the SEO industry who have been as consistent and giving as much and for as long as Jill Whalen.

To many, Jill is the Queen of SEO. She has been working in SEO for almost 20 years, even before the term SEO was around…

It has been a while since there have been a reputable place offering “Awards” in the search community. Now, we have the US Search Awards backed by PubCon, Majestic SEO, SEMPO, and some other companies…

Ever wonder what SEO companies are likely to do when they don’t get paid by their clients?

Well, we wondered and decided to ask the question a few months ago. Now with 350 responses in…

New York State Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman, announced that 19 companies have agreed to pay out a total of $350…