Adwords API Will Now Cost Money

Google has announced that it will be charging a pay per usage fee of $0.25 per thousand queries of its Adwords API. To those business owners that didn’t have a clue what I just said here is the scoop. First of all, this really does not ‘directly’...

Search Engine SPAM Strikes Again

We were recently contacted by a client who had found a number of occurrences of search engine SPAM. What made this SPAM a problem is that they were targeting the clients business name and coming up in some of the top 10 rankings! The pages were littered with the...

Some Buzz on Google’s New Patent

There is a low buzz in the SEO world about a new Google patent titled: “System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results”. You can find the actual Google patent here. As far as patents go this seems to be an odd one;...

Google’s Home Page Functionality Updated

Yesterday the VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer announced a small update to the functionality of the Google home page: www.google.com. When I looked at the page, I didn’t see much of a change… until I clicked on the...

The Ask Search Engine Robot – Is It Depressed?

Have you noticed how infrequently and deeply Ask appears to be indexing websites? I reviewed a number of my client’s websites and discovered that of the big 4 robots (Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK) Ask is dramatically falling behind. Where the other search engines...

A Laugh at Microsoft’s Expense – Hand Crafted Results

I know this was happened while back (2005 in fact) but a friend of mine (thanks Quentin!) showed me this link to Microsoft’s job post board and I couldn’t resist sharing it with you. In 2005 MSN’s search results were infamous for their less than...