I’m really looking forward to giving this year’s Pubcon presentations, not only because I’m heading to Las Vegas, November 8-12 for the longest running internet marketing conference, but because in both sessions, I get to speak about things that I have a strong passion for.
Serious “localization” of the search engine results has been going on for a couple of years now, but this week Google morphed the results again entirely.
A lot has changed since I began learning about local search in 2007, and as you likely know by now, Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. have all been aggressively separating their local listings from the organic search results for some time now.
Friday morning here in Portland, a web hosting customer could not check their email without an error saying that their mail server wasn’t found, and they couldn’t see their own website either.
Initial attempts to help her proved fruitless, and after trying everything, she was sadly told that it appeared to be a Frontier DNS problem.
How do you politely explain years and years of progress in SEO to someone that you know is either reading very old information, or is just completely misinformed?
If you read the email I got below, that’s what I was faced with, and I answered for the benefit of a current client (potentially getting him a backlink or three? 
I’m proud to announce that we are one of the sponsors for Portland WordCamp 2010 that is taking place this weekend, although I’m very disappointed that I can’t go.
When I was first approached about sponsorship, I wasn’t really sure that it would be a huge value for me, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I just had to support the event and the community.
With 100% certainty, I can say that Google Webmaster Tools Malware warnings are not arriving consistently, and there’s a breakdown in their system.
In the last two months, there have been three instances where although malware has been found, no malware notification message ever arrived in the message center at all, despite the fact that they ARE identifying malware.
Google Instant was rolled out to the world yesterday, which changes the way search results appear.
Rather than waiting for you to push a button that says “search”, as you type, search results will simply appear, based on whatever you’re typing.
If you leave your mail on the server, then it will eventually fill up, and when people try to e-mail or reply, they’ll get “the mailbox is over quota” or something similar as a bounce-back message.
The SEO Automatic URL Review for Android is finally available, and it covers all the same ranking factors that the web version does.
Just like the iPhone app, the only difference between the free version and the paid version is that you can e-mail reports from the paid version.
Last week users began reporting that Google’s search results (and the PPC ads) began changing right before their eyes. I just saw it for the first time, but then it stopped immediately and hasn’t done it again.
As users type, Google and Binghoo both offer “suggestions” based on what others are searching for with some personalization thrown in, but now they’re changing the results on the page dynamically.
I just found out that a YouTube Strike is is on my video channel, and that certainly can’t be good!
Over the past few months I’ve been using a simple embed code from YouTube to share the videos over at SEO Automatic, and it’s been easy enough.
Inside of Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option called “Fetch As Googlebot” that is supposed to go crawl that page and return what it sees.
Until this moment, I’ve never had much use for this, but that’s not the case now!
I discovered a problem when a website which had been hacked and then fixed was still showing the polluted snippet in the description on the results page.
