A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone complaining that his site’s rankings dropped and the one thing he noticed was that his home page and 56 other pages are indexed in Google with the https version…

By now, we’ve all set up professional Facebook and Twitter accounts, separate from our personal ones. It’s commonplace to find a company sharing, tweeting, and pinning about what’s happening.

Google’s John Muller said in a webmaster hangout on Friday that GoogleBot will follow up to five redirects at the same time, past that, you are probably out of luck. I don’t believe we had a number, a solid number, on how many redirects Google will follow…

On Wednesday/Thursday of last week, Google added a new guideline to their Webmaster Guidelines to “not block a destination URL for a Google Ad product” via your robots.txt file. 24-hours later, Google reversed that guideline and put the webmaster guidelines back to exactly how they were… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Duane Forrester, Bing’s Senior Product Manager, posted on the Bing Webmaster Blog that you should not be too crazed over picking an expensive domain name for your new web site. He said, even when you buy old domain names that are pricy, those domain names may have some bad history.

Dan Cobley, Google UK’s Managing Director, recently revealed that Google’s infamous 2007 “50 Shades of Blue” experiment involving ad links in Gmail increased revenue by $200 million a year. These results switched the balance of power from design-driven to engineering…

Friday we covered an SEO computer game named Donkey Cutts, a play off Donkey Kong. Today, I was informed of another SEO computer game launched about a month ago named Madoogle

Link building isn’t dead.

I had the opportunity to interview a few speakers on the MarketingLand track at SMX West this coming March as part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media. Be sure to attend Ric’s sessions on Tuesday (Day 1) and Wednesday (Day 2) and visit the SEJ booth in the exhibit hall! SMX West Bio: Ric Dragon is […] Author information Kelsey Jones Search & Social Consultant at MoxieDot

Last week I attended and presented at the SES conference in London where online marketers from all over Europe and as far away as Australia converged to learn about integrated marketing and paid, earned, and owned media. With it’s history in search marketing, the conference complemented presentations on digital marketing with sessions on SEO. Making sure content is easy to find by the right audience in search is an important part of our consulting at TopRank Marketing, so I am acutely away of the changes in the search optimization world from Panda to Penguin to Hummingbird