As I mentioned a while back, if you hang with Gypsies, something is bound to happen; and sure enough David Harry AKA “TheGypsy” is at it again. Just the other day David finally let the cat out of the bag on a little project he’s been working on called The HuoMah SEO Dojo. What is The HuoMah SEO Dojo? The Dojo is a new online community dedicated to those of us obsessed with all things search. I was fortunate enough…
So over the last couple of months people have been noticing some strange behavior in regards to sitelinks. In December Search Engine Roundtable made note of sitelinks being cut off possibly due to the use of periods in the text. Then today, exactly a month after the last sitelinks post, Search Engine Roundtable reported that many sites are seeing their sitelinks disappear and reappear. However, I don’t find any of these things as confusing as the results I discovered last…
As we kick off 2009 it seems we are already in the midst of some serious noise in the search industry. At the end of 08 we were hit pretty hard with talk of drastic changes to search in 09, and sadly a lot of this talk has carried over into the New Year. A few of the popular opinions that seem to still have quite a bit of steam as we move into 2009 are “rankings are dead”, if…
My blog posts are pretty quickly indexed, usually I’ll see posts indexed within a day or so of being posted, but rarely do they tackle any kind of placement early on without any kind of link love. Tonight Google turned that around by indexing my Twilight Soundtrack Review in just over an hour. Not only that, but the post was indexed within the top 10 in the Twilight Soundtrack Review SERP holding the #8 position. I’ll be totally honest here,…
Having not participated in the first Google Webmaster group chat I really didn’t know what to expect when I signed up for today’s session. A few of my colleagues at the office had participated in the first chat earlier this year, and felt it was quite beneficial so I decided this time to give it a try. The sign up and sign in process were painless, but unfortunately Google had some troubles starting the session. After about ten or fifteen…