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Despite Google’s claims that as of Penguin 4.0 last fall, they just ignore the bad links, here’s concrete evidence to the contrary. This is the traffic from one of my clients’ sites. On March 2nd, I submitted a pretty major Read more

My friend Aleyda Solis just published this super useful .htaccess tool for generating many of the common .htaccess rules needed for SEO: things like redirecting non-slash-ending URLs to the ones ending in slashes; redirecting from the non-www subdomain to the Read more

On my website, I display a map of where my clients are, all over the world. Mostly because I like messing around with Google Maps via the Maps Javascript API--it's really powerful and you can do some really cool things with it.

All of a sudden, my map went wonky. The markers would all show, but no background map or imagery would show at all!

I spent HOURS today trolling through StackOverflow, forums, etc., and finally discovered the problem.

Google Webmaster Tools newly-announced Search Analytics brings with it a rescue from the dreaded [not provided] debacle of the past 3 1/2 years.

Google's talking about "more precise data" etc. in the new Search Analytics report--referring to the massive data issues in the old Top Queries and Top Pages reports in Webmaster Tools, where often the numbers were totally hallucinogenic, attributing 10s of thousands of clicks at a time to the wrong landing pages and many other errors.