Upon the recently announced Google update I've seen some people Tweet things like if you are afraid of algorithm updates, you must be a crappy SEO if you are technically perfect in your SEO, updates will only help you I read those sorts of lines and cringe. Here's why... Fragility Different businesses, [...] Continue reading →

Our programmer recently updated our SEO toolbar to work with the most recent version of Firefox. You can install it from here. After you install it the toolbar should automatically update on a forward basis. It is easy to toggle on or off simply by clicking on the green or gray O. If [...] Continue reading →

Google Gets Out of China In March of 2010 Google announced they would no longer censor their search results for China: earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically [...] Continue reading →

Changing User Intents Google's search quality rater document highlights how the intent of searches can change over time for a specific keyword. A generic search for [iPhone] is likely to be related to the most recent model. A search for [President Bush] likely was related to the 41st president until his son was elected [...] Continue reading →

The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time. GERMANY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY PRESIDENT SAYS OUR ASSUMPTION IS THAT IT WILL TAKE ABOUT TWO YEARS FOR THIS PANDEMIC TO RUN ITS COURSE— Quantitative Trading (@fiquant) March 17, 2020 Up to 70% of Germany could become infected & some countries like the UK are even [...] Continue reading →

Subscription Management I have active subscriptions with about a half-dozen different news & finance sites along with about a half dozen software tools, but sometimes using a VPN or web proxy across different web browsers makes logging in to all of them & clearing cookies for some paywall sites a real pain. If you don't [...] Continue reading →

Google recently copied their mobile result layout over to desktop search results. The three big pieces which changed as part of that update were URLs: In many cases Google will now show breadcrumbs in the search results rather than showing the full URL. The layout no longer differentiates between HTTP and HTTPS. And the [...] Continue reading →