In probably the most important search ranking news in 2010, Ben Hendrickson of SEOmoz announced his findings yesterday at the SEOmoz PRO conference in Seattle. Continue reading LDA – More Important than Inbound Links →

BACKGROUND: Google Mini is essentially an appliance, a mini version of Google that they ship preconfigured on a cheap rackmount webserver, with a light version of Google installed. You can configure it a little to look like your site, and get it to catalog just your site’s pages, and then integrate a search box into your website to implement site search. At TheBigDay, we bought a Google Mini box. It lasted a little less than a year before biting the biscuit. So, Google shipped us a new box as it was under warranty. I sort of expect that a webserver would last more like 3-5 years at least, but whatever…they replaced it, so let’s move on, right? Not real happy about all the extra time I had to put in, but at this point I was OK with the support. Continue reading The Disposable Search Engine →

We got a little traffic from RingEnvy.com at TheBigDay, and for various reasons I decided to poke my nose in a little deeper…and was quite entertained by the spammy trick I discovered. It seems RingEnvy.com is (well, WAS…the site’s dead now!) scraping content from Yahoo Answers in order to generate lots of pages of juicy content for the search engines to digest and index, in the hopes of driving more traffic. Continue reading Double-translation spam →