The Battle over 'GIF' Pronunciation Erupts

The greatest debate of the 21st century - is it a 'GIF' as pronunced G-if or 'GIF' pronounced Gj-if (like jiff peanut butter) - the New York Times Reports: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/

Google Penguin Top Losers via @Searchmetrics

While everyone is busy checking stats and making theories today..

Penguin 2.0 is here

So Matt has announced Penguin 2.0 (4) http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/ and Barry has r

How Google created zero-sum marketing

Ok, I won't steal Ian's title that is supposed to drive many people to his article :)

WSJ: Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift

The Wall Street Journal has an intersting take on The Yahoo buy out of Tumblr http://online.wsj.com/art

How Widespread is Corruption at Wikipedia?

Salon has an article, Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia, about a rogue making edits.

10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve SEO & Usability

An excellent post describing WordPress plugins for enhancing usability & impro

Reclaiming your Google Referral Data

Tim Resnik shares his (SEOmoz)

Conspiracy Behind the Closing of the Google Affiliate Network

Jonathan Goodman started up a new podcast recently, and one of his first shows was The Google Affiliate Network Consp

UK payday loans search results to be hit

Here is Matt Cutts latest webmaster video on youtube regarding the up and coming update at google including the penguin 2.0 or #4 updates: 

Google SMS search discontinued without warning

Google's SMS search feature, where you could text a question to google and get a response, has been discontinued without warning.

Penguin 2.0 or 4? is weeks away according to Matt Cutts

Danny and Matt having a minor spat over naming convention for the next iteration of Penguin. However one thing seems to have been established.

SER reporting an update for May Barry trying to confirm.

There has been lots of chatter about an update in the last few days and Mozcast has been showing positive signs and now Barry believes there is definitely an large

DOJ says it doesn't need warrants to grab email and chat content

I think it's safe to say this topic will have some folks up in arms.

Strategies for Backlinks Through Guest Blogging

I've never been fond of guest blogging, when it comes to people asking to write on my blog. My cynical side says they're all just looking to spread some keyword rich junk around.

Ryan takes a swipe at Press Release experiment posted on SearchEngineLand

I am in complete agreement with RYan on this one. Such a contrived keyword could have been ranked with any method.

Adobe move to Subscription Model

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22432171

The Science of Retweets

Dan Zarrella loves to dissect vast numbers of social media posts to determine which language seems to be the most effective. His latest effort is summarized here:

Getting A Non-Paid Link

A new one for me this morning, re getting non-paid links.  They'll send you a gift if you publish a link.

The anatomy of *resource-based* Google suggestions

We are all aware of the powerful Google Suggest tool that shows your query suggestions while you are typing. Suggestions are based on most popular search queries ("query-based")