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When Google launched the EMD Update in September 2012, I assumed that it only impacted keyword rich domain names. Specifically, sites that target the keyword phrase in their primary domain...

Today Shaun reminded me that the recent SEO is dead news headlines yet again, which in fairness these headlines have been around for the last 10 years. that I should just take a chill pill and pointed me to what he said in may 2012 : STOP THE PRESS...

I often get asked what I think the future of SEO will hold, sometimes I go off on a rant other times I try to let people see what I see. So let’s break down what SEO used to be for a long time : Build a website that was SEO friendly, this meant...

There has always been a lot of discussion around the topic of conversion rates and if that impacts your Google rankings. Of course, the correlation versus causation item is on the top of ones mind when discussing such topics.
But I wanted to share with you a WebmasterWorld thread that tested this...

I’m attending the Breaking Development conference in San Diego this week, and will be posting my notes from a few of the talks here.

Ben Callahan did a great talk on design workflows called Prototyping Style. He discussed the problems with linear workflows before giving some great tips on a new way of collaborative working specifically suited for responsive design. We used to have a very linear workflow, which went something like this: Content UX Design Front-end development Back-end...

I’m attending the Breaking Development conference in San Diego this week, and will be posting my notes from a few of the talks here.

I really enjoyed Cameron Moll‘s talk entitled “Pitfalls and Triumps of the Cross-Screen Experience”. One of the things that I appreciated is that it’s one of the first talks here I’ve seen that looked a bit more critically at Responsive Web Design. Not that Cameron isn’t a fan of responsive design, but he does bring up some interesting questions about its...

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I covered a video answer from Google's Matt Cutts on the topic of duplicate content.

In short, should you worry about having duplicate content on your site or not. The short answer...

UK prime minister David Cameron unveiled a wide-range of efforts today to protect children against pornography on the Internet. A significant part of his speech attacked the search engines of Google, Bing and Yahoo for not doing enough and demanding changes by October.

Below is Cameron’s speech, which I’ve annotated with observations on how difficult the things he demands might or might not be to implement. Search Engine Already “Deter” But How Can’t Be Said

Cameron starts out somewhat...

I’m attending the Breaking Development conference in San Diego this week, and will be posting my notes from a few of the talks here.

Luke Wroblewski kicked off BD Conf 2013 with a talk entitled “One Design to Rule Them All”. It was a bit of a State of the Nation on what’s going on in the device landscape today. Here are my notes from the talk. It’s impossible to determine what kind of experience we should design for by looking at standard device types (phone vs. tablet vs. laptop, etc.)...