One thing that irritates me more than anything is stupid commercials.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Danny Sullivan published a new story yesterday named Two Weeks In, Google Talks Penguin Update, Ways To Recover & Negative SEO. In that article, he interviews Google’s spam lead..

On the back of Panda, Penguin and any other updates Google has stored in the Zoo, writing SEO content has become more and more about delivering a better user experience. Gone are the days of keyword laden text that reads poorly and lacks substance.

In the mid 1990’s, New York city Mayor Rudolph Giuliani introduced a technology-based crime measurement system called CompStat. The system enabled Police leadership, for the first time, to discern crime trends and respond to crime fluctuations on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis rather than the…

An open letter to Joe Flatley and management at technology publication The Verge, who painted all internet marketers as snake oil salesmen in a misguided piece entitled “Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster.”

The case could easily be made that keyword list construction is the most vital part of the paid search marketing process. Yes, optimization is clearly a crucial component to profitable SEM, yet without the right keywords (and campaign/ad group structure), the chance for success drops dramatically…

Joffrey Baratheon vs. Stark / Iron Man Source: a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net via Melissa on Pinterest

Google came out with their monthly search updates posts and I decided to guess at which were Penguin related. Bing announced a huge redesign and functionality change to Bing Search…