It is not very often that you come across a situation like this. The domain name JeffBezos.com has been sold at a domain name auction and then promptly returned to its rightful owner: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. I recently interviewed Bob Olea, the guy who bought the JeffBezos.com domain name and returned it to Mr. [...]

From what I can tell based on a large purchase of domain names today by Google, the online search giant is planning some sort of campaign to encourage us to “get online”. Google has purchased a large number of State-related domain names including Get Online America, including the “get online” phrase along with a State [...]

It looks like we are just about to get a new AOL Tech Guru. Based on a few new domain names that AOL has purchased today, including AOL Tech Guru.com, it appears that AOL is going to either rebrand their currently-owned tech guru (perhaps Engadget is a likely target), or start a completely new site [...]

Schema.org is a new collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to start standardizing website code. They are trying to help you code your website in a better way so that they can understand your site better and its contents. But did you know that by using code on their site you may be infringing upon [...]

Are you living in a social media bubble? Have you had to explain, multiple times, what the word Twitter or Facebook means, or even what social media means? Well, on the Standing Dog blog today, Josh has written a great blog post about his experiences living in the social media bubble. Read his recent blog [...]

According to a new tool by Google called Google Correlate, you can look back at a lot of data. So, I decided to search Google Correlate for Search Engine Optimization. Apparently on June 12, 2005, it was a historic day of epic proportions: more people searched for search engine optimization on that day than on [...]

In April 2011 I first reported that Microsoft had acquired 47 domain names related to something (a brand or a company) named Synsup Labs. Those domain names had previously been pointed to the Bing.com search results. Now, the total number of domain names related to Synsup Labs that Microsoft owns is an even 50 domain [...]

A few friend that is not very internet savvy asked me recently about what I do for a living. I told them about search engine optimization, and then thought that I would explain the history behind it. The history of search engine optimization, though, is interesting. For such a new industry, we have seen quite [...]

Google is not following their own webmaster guidelines on their own web site. We all have issues with our web sites at one time or another. When we optimize our web sites we try to make sure that we follow the industry’s best practices. But that doesn’t always happen, even if you are Google. I [...]

If you search at Google for a keyword phrase that includes a city name, most likely Google will show Google Places listings as part of the Google search results. But optimizing for this has become increasingly difficult, since what Google shows and when they show it is so inconsistent. Here is how Google Places is [...]

Finally, there is a better WordPress search that actually helps you search web sites that are powered by WordPress. There have been only a few acceptable options in the past to add a search engine/search utility to search your web site, including Google Custom Search, but there have been issues, it sometimes is difficult for [...]

What is the current status of search engine optimization here in April 2011? We have just gone through yet another highly publicized Google update called the Google Panda update. Do you need to spend a lot time making all sorts of changes to your web site? Or do you just need an SEO Audit in [...]

Three high profile Poker domain names were seized today. The FBI has charged the founders of the three largest Internet poker companies doing business in the United States with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses. Others were charged, as well. The PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker domain names were seized as [...]

Wow, I have to admit that this is something that I did not expect to see. But, I am very glad that my buddy Tony Wright has finally made the decision to start writing again on his blog, over at WrightIMC. Tony always has a lot of great insights and I always learn quite a [...]

We are suffering through a terrible addiction epidemic right now, and it is called the smartphone. I would like to call it the smartphone epidemic. Everywhere you look, especially at Trade Shows, everyone has their eyes looking at their smartphone. New Lifestyles has a great blog post today about smartphones at Trade Shows and details [...]

Can QR codes help your blog posts and unique content appear in Facebook’s Top News feeds? Yes, a QR code can really get you into the Top News on Facebook. Here is how to use a QR code to help your blog post or your unique content to appear in Facebook’s Top News.

I wrote a blog post about how to make a QR code for your web site that you might be interested in reading. I have seen QR codes all over the place, especially in the ads in the Wall Street Journal. And I have scanned them with my smart phone. But, I did not know [...]

What really is the difference between search engine optimization and search engine marketing? I know it can be confusing, but since the internet marketing has matured lately so much, there really is a big difference between SEO and SEM.

One of the biggest mistakes that I see bloggers make is not fixing duplicate content. Here is how to find and fix duplicate content issues on your blog.

Is the next Google product going to be called Google Anymote? It appears that Google is working on a new product or service called Google Anymote, which I could see being related to or perhaps even the next generation of Google Android. It looks, though, that it will include some sort of relation to Google [...]