This landed in my inbox, thought it was interesting - Googlebot Just Got The Boot:
Having been defamed by Google, along with many other bloggers, gave me an opportunity to reevaluate my relationship with big G. I have decided to see how will this blog survive on its own- without Google. So I have instructed Googlebot [...]

Can you imagine for a moment the earthquake that would result around the web and Wall Street if, in an organized and concerted effort:
a) Webmasters removed adsense ads from their websites for one week
b) Webmasters stopped paying for adwords for one week
c) Everyone stopped clicking adsense for one week
Reading things like:

Google’s Evil
Google’s FUD
Google’s World Domination

…sounds [...]

I’m seeing something moving and fluxing in Google’s SERPs right now (past two days), and it’s so rocking my world. I don’t know if this is permanent, but past experience tells me that things will kick butt for a few days then settle back down. I can’t help but wish it would stay like this [...]

Another thing I’ve caught up with (haven’t done much reading lately), John Scott has launched a new service for bloggers to make money (see Contextual Links) and he has (once again) stirred up chatter.
One thing John Scott does very, very well is stir up & create chatter ;). Kudos to him!
Although it isn’t my [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been noticing more and more bloggers lately aren’t linking to the actual source of information they’re discussing.
I was reading a post over at Matt Cutts’ blog regarding the new paid link service John Scott is offering (more on that later), and it struck me as odd [...]

I stole the title from Peter Da Vanzo’s post The Google Minus 30 Penalty
But if I had to summarise all the SEO data I’ve seen, and the discussions I’ve had with people over the past year, it is this:
In 2007, domain authority is almost everything. Great content on untrusted domains goes nowhere.

Peter’s post touches on [...]

Over two months ago I had a tinfoil hat Creepy-Google moment, there’s news now filtering out about that–updates in the comment section: Personal Name Reputation & Authority.

I have a few web directories that are getting stinkier and stinkier to work with over time. Ninety percent of the submissions are the usual MFA, Amazon knock-off, auto-gen mass reprint article content, and every type of splog imaginable. And so on. But the site quality for submissions is getting WORSE as time goes on.
Where [...]

I’m not afraid of tinfoil hats. Sometimes I go there. Here’s a thought, something to chew on.
I’ve been reading Graywolf’s post Does Google use Whois Information and he’s got some great ideas to vary up your whois data. I don’t want to start some crazy discussion about web mafia tactics, dark gangstah arts and all [...]

First I’ll say I have a smidgen of affiliate sites still doing ok in both Yahoo! and MSN (for the time being). Never have I done well in Google. With the latest Yahoo! update knocking out some of the power keyphrases I used to rank well in, I’ve been doing some investigating.
Going through some old [...]