It's been about two years now that I have wanted to write this article. Why haven't I until now? Conflict of interest. Until recently I'd have been motivated by that necessary evil … getting business. Each time I started writing this article I subconsciously asked myself, "How can I spin this towards Beanstalk?" You can't really...

A major Microsoft AdCenter bug costs advertisers to shell out huge amounts. This bug makes the advertisers may a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for. A Webmasterworld thread addressing the same issue has tremendous amount of posts where affected advertisers have addressed the situation.  My daily spend increased almost...

A WebmasterWorld thread inquires how the sites are ranked within the Yahoo! Directory. Search Engine Roundtable  explains in a post that the sites are ranked in Yahoo! Directory on the basis of popularity. Search Engine Roundtable says: Yahoo! has a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Resources section, where they list out sites included in the...

Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually...

Everybody stay calm. Go on with your usual SEO business. What looked like a President's Day weekend Google algorithm update was most like a tiny ripple in cyberspace. A handful of bloggers were asking "did you see that?" referring to a sudden, and brief, fluctuation in keyword positioning in the Google search results. SEObook's Aaron...

I can't help but think this is a silly discussion, like an argument about whether or not Lois Lane could really have Superman's baby, but I'm diving in anyway to wrap my head around it and, in the process, take you with me. Links And Content Need Each Other, For Now Over at Media Post, David Berkowitz (of 360i, not Attica prison) writes about a...

Search Engine Roundtable has reported the fixing of Google AdWords CPC Price Gouge Bug. The bug pushed up minimum bids to unnatural highs for some keywords. Webmasterworld members have reported relative normalcy over the weekend. my accout is 75% or more back to normal. The problem with singular/plural keywords has been resolved for me. In my...

If you're site goes down for whatever reason, get it back up quickly or risk being de-listed from Google's index. Though it has been thought there may be somewhat of a grace period, it now seems robots only notice what's there when they arrive. SEORoundtable points us to a webmaster struggling with a hosting company's reliability raised the...

One of Google's official blogs, and one of the most useful to site publishers anywhere, has taken down the wall between posters and visitors to allow comments. Google's Vanessa Fox had a couple of heart-shaped boxes for Webmaster Central visitors on Valentine's Day. First, the home of Google's suite of webmaster tools has dropped the beta...

Reports are surfacing throughout the blogosphere concerning the ever-growing recesses of Google’s supplemental results. Now more than ever, sites that were once highly ranked in the main index are beginning to find themselves in the confines of the supplemental index. Some have likened Google’s supplemental index to a virtual refuse...