Google Testing Penalization Notices

Long known for its external secrecy, Google has been opening up lines of communications over the past year to the delight of SEOs and webmasters. About eighteen months ago, an anonymous character known as Google Guy began appearing at certain search-related discussion...

The First SEO Republic Forumed

To phrase it in as juvenile a way as I possibly can, I think search engine spam sucks. I think the use of, and subsequent macho bragging about, spammy SEO techniques is detrimental to the SEO/SEM industry as a whole. I have a number of reasons for staking this...

Ethics and Advertising – A Debate in SEO/SEM Circles

In nearly every technical trade from auto mechanics to refrigerator repair, a series of four letter words are used to express frustration or to project one’s vexation on an inanimate object. Frequently these words, regardless of the shop in which they’re...

SEOinc. vanishes from Google SERPS

SEOinc seems to have vanished from the Top30 search engine results at Google. Until earlier today, SEOinc had consistently ranked in second place under the keyword phrases, “search engine optimization”, “search engine placement”, and...

Can-Spam Act seems to mean I CAN SPAM

Six months after coming into effect, the US Can-SPAM act is being called a failure. Montreal based Email security firm Vircom says that of the 547,685 email messages it has examined since January 2004 when the law went into effect, only 71 or 0.013% of them conformed...