My friend Aleyda Solis just published this super useful .htaccess tool for generating many of the common .htaccess rules needed for SEO: things like redirecting non-slash-ending URLs to the ones ending in slashes; redirecting from the non-www subdomain to the www one; redirecting http to https; even the code for the custom … Continue Reading ››

In this year's keynote at SMX Advanced, Gary Illyes from Google shed light on a number of topics surrounding Google search.

Panda updates: the updates still happen very slowly, and it takes months to roll out each update. It's not real-time yet, but apparently the update process is continuous.

Penguin updates: no timeline on … Continue Reading ››

On my website, I display a map of where my clients are, all over the world. Mostly because I like messing around with Google Maps via the Maps Javascript API--it's really powerful and you can do some really cool things with it.

All of a sudden, my map went wonky. The markers would all show, … Continue Reading ››

There appears to have been a Penguin data update either yesterday or early today. What makes me so sure? Well, I set up a little Penguin trap. I built a one-page site, tuned for a nonsense term, and built about a dozen links to that page with the nonsense term as anchor text. Then, I waited … Continue Reading ››

Google Webmaster Tools newly-announced Search Analytics brings with it a rescue from the dreaded [not provided] debacle of the past 3 1/2 years.

Google's talking about "more precise data" etc. in the new Search Analytics report--referring to the massive data issues in the old Top Queries and Top Pages reports in Webmaster … Continue Reading ››