The legacy of Vince and Caffeine

A lot of column inches have been written about Caffeine and Vince. In particular the Vince update has accumulated a lot of interest particularly from people attempting to explain a number of phenomena which have happened since Vince occured.

I won’t go through the history of the Vince update, as Jonathan Stewart has written a fantastic [...]

Matt Cutts confirms Page Rank update via Twitter

There is no doubt Twitter has been one of the success stories of 2008 – and I have to admire the way many organisations are embracing it. In the latest example, Matt Cutts the Head of WebSpam at Google confirmed the news regarding a Google Page Rank update this morning (Dec 31st UK, Dec 30th [...]

The big Google Don starts his own blog

Its official – well at least according to Matt Cutts. Sergey Brin now has his own blog -  which can be found at:
http://too.blogspot.com/
The name “too” reflects Sergey’s additional life outside work. One of his first posts is about the fact that he might be more likely to develop Parkinson’s Disease when he’s older. That’s based [...]

Legitimate SEO increasing says Matt Cutts

According to Google’s Matt Cutts, an increasing number of people are shunning black hat search engine optimisation (SEO) in favour of more legitimate (white-hat) SEO techniques. Matt, talking to he CNET News.com, said they have seen the number of websites utilising highly aggressive SEO campaigns such as automated link generators, link networks and link farms [...]

Search Engine supernova – the evolution of nofollow?

The recent Google/Twitter spat that has got much coverage in the SEO community over the last couple week or so, particulary from search marketeers such Sugarrae (otherwise known as Rae Hoffman) and Michael Gray (Graywolf)
Following on from this was a post from Quadzilla over at BlackHatSEO.com examined the possibly of black hole SEO (A phrase [...]