Initially I planned to name this post “Google changes in the algorithm to calculate PageRank”. However I decided to give it a more marketable name which will reflect more the “Consequences of the Google changes in the algorithm to calculate PageRank”. When I read in a Matt Cutts’s post blog post how Google changed the [...]

Google Page Speed is a tool used internally by Google to optimize their webpages, which is now made available for the public. The tool is built as a Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. When I discovered it I was a little amused that Google is using Firefox internally instead Chrome for such purposes. Yesterday I [...]

I just read an interesting post about wordpress permalinks: Many SEO Experts Give Wrong Advice Regarding WordPress Permalinks. The post describe in details the speed problems which comes in wordpress when the Permalinks are activated. The main issue is generate by the wordpress architecture. All the maps between the permalink url and the real items [...]

I think everybody knows what Google thinks about paid links(dofollow paid links because the nofollow links are accepted). They hate it for 2 reasons: First of all they can not detect it, control it, measure it. The entire Google castle was built on the “measuring” what other pages “think” about a specific page. In simple [...]

I recently read an interesting post on Tim Ferris Blog: Napolean on News and Information Management. It is a post about some of Napoleon’s quotes about managing information, and prioritizing tasks. It was really interesting because I was starting to ask myself a lot of questions after reading it. Maybe you’ll ask how come it [...]

I created a few months ago a squidoo account to test squidoo and to try to get some strong lenses for a set of keywords I was targeting. For those of you who doesn’t know, Squidoo is a sort of combination between a knowledge base or a non-collaborative Wikipedia and a community site. In a [...]

Google, Yahooo and Microsoft announced support for a new element that can be defined in the html head structure to avoid page duplication problems.  Any page can define an element like the following to indicate which is the real page(canonical page) the search engine should take in consideration: <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://example.com/page.html”/> The above element can [...]

There are many popular Squidoo, Hubpages and “recently” launched Google Knol where everyone can join and publish their own content. Most of them are admirably built from the seo perspective and market themselves as communities of people with different passions, or alternatives to Wikipedia. In my opinion they are built with the intention to make [...]

Google is changing at special events, celebrations, etc. a special image displayed instead of the usual logo. Today it was Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday and the image was pointing to “charles darwin” results page. The fact I found interesting is that not all the google domains were displaying Charles Darwin google logo. Initially, I thought [...]

The end of year came with a google PR update. ImproveSeo.info increased its page rank from PR0 to PR3, and most of the sites I was handling increased their PR. I’ve seen forums discussions where people were mentioned their site PR went down, but my general impression is that most of the websites gained PR. [...]