Claiming your articles using Google Plus and rel=author is fairly clear: It's old news and many authors are doing that already.

Michael Turner, one of the first generation of SEO pioneers in this industry, was shot and killed on a beach in the Phillipines.

In a recent article, regular trouble maker, Ben Cook, points out several changes t

Hannah Smith writes about the need to talk about the lack of female speakers at search conferences.

Ok this took me a little by surprise. I would have thought the figure would have been much lower.

There's an absolutely hilarious discussion going on at WebmasterWorld forums (which is probably taken too seriously by some of the par

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/02/11/eric-schmidt-confirms-google-content-given-search-priority

Forum sitelinks have been introduced by Google in 2009, but not even the 

Aaron says sharing and caring and it's so true, especially when you share such a killer stuff:

Sitelinks have been there for ages and I can't believe Google hasn't still created a solid algorithm of defining the worthy pages to show there.

Microsoft has hired a former political pollister for Hillary Clinton to wage a smear campaign against Gmail.

Harvard University computer scientist LaTanya Sweeney was upset to see a Goo

Matt, explaining why they don't do away with the TBPR indicator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbK6hlQlmUc

An interesting Scribd paper just surfaced by Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Nicolás Robinson-García, and Daniel Torres-Salinas, from

Here's another great idea from Google:

1. Create a slew of broken results through a cocked-up algo update,

So we like assuming Google is super smart: It knows what synonyms are, it can detect unnatural language, it can understand the page markup and identify which part of it is more important (content-h

Remember the good old days of SEO, when everyone would wait with baited breath for the monthly Google Dance?

As a user I've been finding Google's search results to be increasingly irrelevant, but I've never really been able to put my finger on it.

Excellent post by Kev Strong about an employee at HMV who tweeted live as her and 60 other employees got fired.

The thing is... she did it on the @HMV Twitter handle!

Xanga are having problems with spam overloading their servers:

http://thexangateam.xanga.com/771268436/fighting-splogs-and-some-proposed-tweaks-to-the-r%e2%80%a6/