On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of Mario Costeja Gonzalez (pictured above) of Spain in his suit against Google, aimed at getting them to remove pages related to Gonzalez’s 1998 debt troubles that he argued are now irrelevant. Europe’s top court ultimately…
If your email address is included in a single mailto: link or on the receiving end of any contact form, there’s a high probability that you’ve received an email like the one shown below. Everyone receives them. I receive them and my site openly says…
Oh, Google. I know you mean well, but sometimes you just try too hard and come across like a real Chatty Cathy. Even worse, a Chatty Cathy Know-It-All. I’ve got your back, though. The semantic web is to blame. In your quest to gain a…
There’s been some excitement in the SEO world in the past few days. It doesn’t take much to get people in our industry all riled up, but this one is spurring some real anger toward Google for assuming the roles of Relevance Police, Judge and…
One of the most annoying things in the digital marketing industry is the constant stream of bloggers declaring that XYZ tactic is dead, or speculating that XYZ tactic will die because of a new Google algorithm update. Now, I’m no fancy-pants doctor, but in every other…
It isn’t coming. It’s here. There is something dangerous amongst us. It isn’t something tangible, and it has slowly been taking over the SEO industry for years in a cold, unforgiving manner. Because of it, our future is determined for us; rather than us being…
One of the biggest announcements during Google I/O 2013 was the announcement of the new Google Maps. The new version was reportedly rebuilt from the ground up, and after receiving my invite and diving in, I can see that they weren’t kidding. The new Google…
For the past few weeks, Google and Matt Cutts (head of the webspam team at Google) have alluded to an upcoming Penguin algorithm update. Well, yesterday, during an episode of This Week in Google, Cutts announced that the update was being rolled out within “the next…
When I was a kid, I was a bit of the daring type. I’ve been told stories of myself, getting caught playing balance beam on a 2nd story deck railing, wandering off and requiring a search party of a dozen people at the campground (they…
One of the biggest challenges in SEO is measuring success in a way that both the client and the marketer agree on. As recently as five years ago, this wasn’t a challenge at all. Back then, we had these wonderfully reliable, ironclad numbers called rankings….