Google can’t buy enough brain power to ignore text ads

October 9, 2007

The SEO community’s buzzing over official word from Google that selling text links can hurt your PR and rankings. It’s truly sad that $600-a-share Google is willing to ruin its own search results because they can’t figure out how to differentiate paid ads from useful links. They’re not always different things, either, one of [...]

5 Things You Don’t Know About Me

January 29, 2007

I’ve been tagged, which means I have to share 5 things most people don’t know about me. Since I’ve only resumed blogging about a month and a half ago, that’s pretty much everything, so here goes:

Link Building the Right Way

January 1, 2007

It began with Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders, decided to build a search engine which didn’t rank pages primarily by keyword density like their competition. Early search engines were easy to fool — fill your page with the same phrase over and over and you’d appear near the top of [...]