Interview with Ask Jeeves
Mike Grehan, one of the most diligent and intuitive people in the search marketing industry, has conducted a fantastic interview with some of the top technology & business people at the Ask Jeeves engin...
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Yellow Shoes @ NYC SES
It may seem unconventional to wear yellow sneakers with a suit, but that's what I'll be in on Monday the 28th - the first day of the Search Engine Strategies Conference. Look for a touch of yellow on the floor if you'd like to chat and feel free to criticize my Seattle fashion ...
Keyword Phrases that Bring Conversions
A report from emarketer today - Search Query Keyword Insight - details the results of some research over the pas...
The Keyword Research Guru
Rarely do I give a colleague praise so publicly, yet Dan Thies deserves it. His efforts are unmatched in the area of keyword research and targeting, an often under-appreciated specialty in the SEO business. Recently, Dan has started a ...
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Disambiguation & Homographs in Search
For many designers & graphic artists, a first experience with disambiguation will be during an image search at a site like Getty One or Corbis. We'll conduct a search for "marine" and a pag...
The Semantic Web
An article from the Scientific American, The Semantic Web, describes several examples of how semantic understanding by computers will help to revolutionize the utility of technology in...
Web Standards & W3C Guidelines
Web standards and code validation can often be a boring subject in the SEO and web development world. It's not fun to hack through the W3C's validation complaints about missing alt tags, improperly entered text symbols and incomplete div tags, but it is neccessary....
New Search Technology Forum @ SEOChat
The nice folks at SEOChat have made yours truly the moderator for a new section - the Search Technologies Forum. The description for this new area is: ...
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Approaching the End of the PageRank Era
Even a great technological innovation like PageRank will eventually be supplanted. For a web information retreival model, PR has already had a remarkable long life, yet its downfall has been predicted across the web by some of the very best in the industry. Here'...
The Speed of Link Growth
Many have surmised that un-natural link building is reponsible for ranking issues. This may very well be true, as much of the evidence I've been able to review on the issue of sites in Google's sandbox have displayed similiar features. Links have typically come in fast and furious at...
A Glossary of Information Retrieval Terminology
Many times when reading through complex threads, research papers or even blogs by some of the more advanced SEOs in the industry, I get lost in the meaning of terms and an entire paragraph or document can be lost to my ignorance. Luckily, great resources like the...
What can WordNet be used for?
WordNet is a lexical database (a collection of words) that has been used by major search engines and IR research projects for many years. The database can be accessed through Princeton University's website and even ...
Child Inheritance at Google
An incredibly revealing post on some theories about Google's changes over the past 12 months was first noted by TW. However, the quantity and quality of information p...
SEO Links from Del.icio.us
I've blogged previously on the subject of Del.icio.us, but this time I want to examine our own, specific field and the links that spring up from the tagging community. Del.icio.us has a large base of users, yet few of these issue SEO tags...