In September we predicted Google would launch a new white navigation bar and they indeed announced they would a week or so later. Very few have seen it since..

As part of the US government shut down, many .gov sites have also shut down, replaced by messages like this: “Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available. We sincerely regret this inconvenience.” But one day, the government will start up again and government… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Link building with content is more than “create good content and they will come.”  It rarely works without a bit of human promotion.  A common rule of thumb for link building: “the harder a link is to obtain, the more valuable it will be.” If you have created great content and published it only to […] Author information Bill Sebald Owner at Greenlane Search Marketing, LLC Bill has specialized in SEO for over a decade. He owns a Philadelphia SEO company focusing on small and medium sized businesses, and blogs at www.greenlaneseo.com/blog. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post Link Building Through Outreach and Content Refreshing by @billsebald appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A recent Google webmaster help video from Google’s Matt Cutts brings up an interesting question: should a webmaster nofollow internal links within their site or does it not make any difference because they are simply internal links?

A little over a year ago, Microsoft launched this campaign named the Bing It On Challenge, which was basically a blind-search taste test pinning Bing against Google…

In May, there was an excellent post featured at moz entitled, “How Guest Bloggers are Sleepwalking Their Way into Penalties.” The premise of the article was that exclusively using guest posting as a link building method is dangerous and may lead to search engine penalties. The post warned that the danger is heightened when implementing […] Author information Matthew Schmoldt Matthew is an Internet entrepreneur. In 2010, he became a SEO expert in order to promote a personal web project

Is Google taking a less tolerant stance on “spam”? Which link types are most often classified as “unnatural”?

A new study appearing on the”Freakonomics” blog aggressively disputes the claim that people prefer Bing to Google and especially the statistical contention that they prefer the search engine over Google 2:1. In an article explaining the study, law and economics professor Ian…

A WebmasterWorld thread has Google AdSense publishers complaining about a decline in AdSense income starting yesterday. Some are blaming the decline in the government shutdown happening right now in the United States…

As fall sets in and the holiday season starts, SEJ and Advice Interactive Group bring you a Halloween contest to kickstart the ghoulish fun. Submit your best Halloween “recipe” for SEO success, and win $500! See our Festive Fall SEO Recipe For Success below as an example. Our judges will select the best 5 submissions which […] Author information Bernadette Coleman Bernadette Coleman is CEO & Executive Director of Advice Interactive Group, an award winning digital agency focused on improving visibility for clients across the digital universe