Lies, Lies and More Lies – SEO and Life

Lately I have had the subject of lying on my mind and not only for the fact that I have five kids ages 7, 9, 10, 11 and 13 at home and lying seems to have become one of their favorite pastimes.  In the world of SEO (like many industries) there are a slew of Read more about Lies, Lies and More Lies – SEO and Life[…]

The Truth About In-House SEO – It is a ‘Secret Weapon’

Search engine optimization (SEO) has really taken corporate Canada by surprise or a better way of putting it would be bewilderment.   Most decision makers in this country know that SEO is important but are not sure exactly what it is and how it can ultimately effect the bottom line of their companies.  Because of this Read more about The Truth About In-House SEO – It is a ‘Secret Weapon’[…]

Google to Offer Free SEO?

There is a long standing rumor that Google wishes to ‘take over the world’ – now that might not be exactly true but they sure as heck got their fingers in a lot of different pies!  While the title is a bit ‘tongue-in-cheek’ at the moment, it might just be the future? While this post Read more about Google to Offer Free SEO?[…]

Google Finally Comments on Comment Spam

So Google finally stepped up to the plate with a post over at GoogleWebmasterCenteral on blog comment spam but the real question is did they give us good, useful information or just open up a Pandoras box of ways to ‘kill’ your competitors in the search rankings? FACT: Abusing comment fields of innocent sites is Read more about Google Finally Comments on Comment Spam[…]

Google Page Rank to go Poof!?

Many SEO’s and Google themselves have been preaching the relative un-importance of visual page rank for ages….now it appears Google is finally ready to put its words into action – they have removed Google page rank from being reported in Google Webmaster Tools and here is the official explanation: Susan Moskwa from the Google Webmaster Read more about Google Page Rank to go Poof!?[…]

SEO’s that break ToS will not be getting 10 to 20 years…

The LA Times is reporting that the judge in the MySpace Mom’s suicide killing case has overturned his decision about the ‘criminality’ of breaking the Terms of Service of a website. And that is really good news for all those SEO’s out there that have ever purchased a link. I know a few SEO’s that Read more about SEO’s that break ToS will not be getting 10 to 20 years…[…]

Article Spinning at its Worst

Spinning articles has become a favorite pass-time of overseas link sellers and I find it very annoying, here is a little excerpt from a blog post titled: The best with. Real estate of loan of financing of UNO to find comment conditions By against the, strong one of agreement of like and well the loan Read more about Article Spinning at its Worst[…]

SEO is Almost Dead…Just Barely Surviving…(cue the death rattle)!

For those of you new to the SEO world you can rest assured that if the sky has not fallen yet – it soon will, any second, maybe…this same drum has been beating for the past 5 years and every few months a new SEO Prophet has some newfangled reason for it to be the Read more about SEO is Almost Dead…Just Barely Surviving…(cue the death rattle)![…]