The Search Engine Blog

A must read interview regarding search rankings and how links impact you. If you can only read one online marketing article today, this is the one. Read it, think about it, put it into action.
Yahoo’s Priyank Garg Chats with Eric Enge

Yes, if your robots.txt file is unreachable, you may not be in Google. I have seen it happen and here’s a discussion on Google Groups about that very topic. Make certain you have a robots.txt file and that it’s reachable by the outside world.
Site Disappeared from Google & Reconsideration.Request - Crawling, indexing, and ranking | […]

Searchviews has an article that reinforces warning signs from SEO hustlers. While the weekly meetings recommendation is overkill for small and even most medium size customers, the warning signs portion of the article is good old news worth repeating.
In general, if they offer guarantees, run. Silly to be in a business where the only guarantee […]

Occasionally Google emails me a message stating that certain customer accounts need attention. I appreciate being kept informed of changes that I should make to customers for whom I manage PPC campaigns for, but I’ve always been suspicious of the ones that want me to increase the daily budget. Here’s one that really got my […]

YouTube adds video annotations so you can add speech bubbles to your video. If you aren’t doing videos to help market your site, you could be missing out on a large potential audience. Now with the ability to annotate your video, you can add that comic book flair to your presentation.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Microsoft can occasionally do things correctly including help you blog better. The Windows Live Writer is an excellent tool for adding entries to your blog (or blogs) that many are raving about. It allows creation of blog entries even while you are offline and makes integrating photos easier than most built in blog editors. It’s […]

A good article on why big brands aren’t search friendly. Review the reasons and make certain you aren’t guilty as well. Do you have a big brand “competitor”? Take advantage if they are asleep at the wheel. It’s going to take them longer to turn the wheel than a smaller company.
SEM Insights » 4 Reasons […]

We love Wordpress here and are pleased when someone can come up with great methods of using it for more than just a blog. (I wish I had time to tweak this installation more and get more out of the available features and plugins.)
Take a look at this site for more ideas on using Wordpress […]

You may not be interested in the competition, but the Google Online Marketing Challenge pages contain some good information on setting up Google AdWords accounts and campaigns. Although geared towards students, the information remains valid for business.
The Google Online Marketing Challenge

A terrific new tool is available to obtain some interesting link data from the Yahoo! API. While there are still bugs in this new tool, it does provide a new look at data and even allows you to download the information in CSV format.
Link Diagnosis - examine your link competition