Friday Tea Time - 8/31/07

It’s Friday before a three day weekend! Wait, I’ll probably work the whole weekend anyway…it’s a good think I like this stuff. Since it’s a holiday weekend we’re staying away from any Humankind vs Matt Cutts posts, let’s give him a break for at least 6 minutes :)…Okay, break over. Anyhoo, here are this week’s […]

Friday Tea Time - 8/24/07 (Belated Sunday Edition)

So Friday Tea Time is on Sunday this week. No complaining. You’ll drink it and you’ll like it. End of story.
* I’m sharing some new blogs I discovered this week that are worth a read. Stuff by Sarah includes all kinds of subjects including PHP, blogging, affiliate stuff and more (also lots of flower pictures […]

Google Is Losing Its Grip On Relevance

Google is beginning to lose its firm lead in search relevance category and they don’t know what to do about it. They’re in a state of panic. The first sign was the release of the Nofollow tag. Originally created to allow publishers to battle spam on sites with user created content, it was quickly twisted […]

Personalized Anchor Text Score

Bill pointed out a patent recently awarded to Google I thought I would try and decipher. Based on the summary they could assign a separate personalized anchor text score based on a “set of user-specific parameters” and combine this with the regular score to reorder your results. Here is the summary from the patent:
A search […]

No More Nofollow - U Comment and I Follow!

Screw you Google. I believe if you have something to say you should be recognized for your contribution. Nofollow is a great idea in theory but I think it’s the wrong way to battle spam. It doesn’t work for one thing, and for another it goes against the whole idea of the web. So […]

Friday Tea Time - 8/17/07

I think I read every post this week from every SEO blogger I could find. My eyeballs hurt…there are a lot of good blogs out there putting out some good ideas and theories. If you’re one of those bloggers then congratulations! If you’re one of those bloggers that regurgitate SEO news every day of the […]