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Improving the way that GoogleBot parses and interprets content on the web has always been integral to the Google mandate. It now seems that GoogleBot has reverently been bestowed the ability to parse JavaScript, AJAX and Cascading Style Sheets. In the past developers avoided the use of JavaScript to deliver content or links to content […]
There were so many interesting technology/internet developments between Friday and now today that I can’t really pick which one to focus on? Sliding FB stock prices, Google finally taking over what was the mobility division of Motorola, SpaceX reaching the ISS, Wiki-leaks’ social media platform, and the Google Knowledge Graph.. and more! If we looked […]
About 10 minutes ago (as I start writing this blog post at least) investors were able to buy into Facebook. At opening the price was estimated at $38/share which gives Facebook an overall value of $107 billion. Wait … let me say that again. That’s one hundred and seven BILLION dollars (insert into your brains […]
You have undoubtedly heard about the Penguin algorithm update from Google and the effects it has already to have on rankings. There is increasing speculation around the Google webmaster forums that another update has just been rolled out. Scattered communications from Google seem to indicate that this is not a new update being rolled out, […]
In the recent wake of the Penguin update from Google and the impact it has had on many sites, Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz, announced on his Google+ page that SEOmoz is currently developing tools to facilitate the "classifying, indentifying and removing/limiting link juice passed from sites/pages." SEOmoz wants to develop software to add to […]
It’s official, if you see a car drive by with nobody inside, the license plate has a red infinity logo, and you’re in Vegas, that really happened, you’re not just in bat country. Google can now legally send it’s self driving cars out solo, with nobody inside. I had to say that to myself […]
If you took a very heavily spam-influenced search engine like Bing for example and removed the first 1 million results for a query, how good would the result be? How about doing the same thing to the best filtered search engines available? Well someone got curious and made the million short search engine. What this […]
Well Google Drive has been making a lot of headlines about ownership of files, depth of file privacy, virus scanning, archive support, etc.. etc.. One item I have not seen anyone mention is the installer/login system that Google Drive is using. As an SEO who has to be able to test a multitude of browser […]
The anticipated over-optimization algorithm that Google’s Matt Cutts announced just a few week ago has now gone live. Nicknamed the "webspam algorithm update" by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land, this latest algorithm update is a further attempt to combat the problem of webspam that permeates websites and search results. A large volume of posts […]