Nobody stands up Mike McDonald. Nobody, not even Google's Vanessa Fox. Back on a cold December day amid the howling Chicago winds, poor Mike sat alone, waiting for Google's Webmaster Central product manager. Alas, but all is vanity, and SEOMoz.org's Rand Fishkin stole the show (and the interview). Well this time, it's payback, and it's for...

Blogging was never really a genteel medium. It's raw, uncensored, no posts barred. Until the chaotic nebula condensed and started emitting death threats, nobody, except lawyers, really had a problem with it. The Kathy Sierra saga made its way to CNN and to the New York Times. Celebrity blogger Robert Scoble boycotted blogging for a week. And...

A statement made by Google recently bagged lots of critical feedbacks on a WebmasterWorld thread. In a Google update on spam reporting Google claimed that they will investigate all bad SERP reports. Google said, “Currently, we investigate every spam report from a registered user. Spam reports to the unauthenticated form are assessed in...

Yahoo! is trying to get its act together with regard to click fraud. The first fall out of Yahoo!'s efforts is banning of foreign site visitors from YPN ads. Yahoo! is intent on restricting internal ad frauds by barring visitors from certain countries from viewing the ads. Search Engine Journal has reported that visitors, specifically from India,...