MacRumors.com announced today that Apple will be holding an iPhone event next Tuesday (September 10th) at 10am PT. If past iPhone events are any indication, Apple will likely introduce iOS7 to download on that day, or shortly thereafter. This is a huge boon for Internet marketers. As most SEOs know by now, iOS6 prevents referral …

I had a great time at the Share 13 conference organized by BrightEdge this past week. BrightEdge definitely knows how to treat their customers well, and they put on a great event with some great speakers capped off by a wine tour in Napa Valley. Hard to beat that. I started off the day feeling …

UPDATE: As of November 15, 2013 Pinterest links appear to be nofollow again So I was going through backlinks today using Open Site Explorer’s “Just-Discovered” feature (which is handy for finding newly found links), and I noticed that there were a lot of Pinterest links in there. What’s more, these links were all dofollow. When …

SearchMetrics just released an infographic on search ranking factors, and it’s a bunch of bunk. I won’t dignify them by linking to their site, but here’s an Imgur link if you want to lose some brain cells. Where to begin with this mess? First of all, the title of the infographic is misleading. “Ranking Factors” …

You may have noticed a couple days ago I published a blog post called “Image Post Test” that included nothing but a picture of a dog. That was part of a test I was conducting to determine whether the title attribute of an image has any impact on SEO. It’s always struck me as odd …

The big news today is that the rumors have finally come true, and Yahoo has purchased Tumblr for 1 billion dollars. As I detailed in my presentation about Tumblr, Tumblr is the 3rd largest blog platform next to WordPress and Blogger, and also one of the top social platforms and microblogging platforms out there. They …

If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, then you’re probably very familiar with the “site:” search on Google. If you’re not familiar with the command, if you go to Google (or Bing) and search for “site:domainname.com” it will show you the pages from the site that are indexed. It’s a useful command for getting …

So the other day, I was trying to access some data in Bing Webmaster Tools for one of the sites that I manage, and I noticed that all of the sites had become unverified. I tried to re-verify the sites, but it kept timing out with the following message: “Timed Out If you were adding …

I just noticed that there is now a designator for “current contributor” or “past contributor” in the “Contributor To” section of Google+. Presumably this is for people who might have been contributors to a publication or a blog, but have since moved onto another company. My first thought was that this is related to Google …

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but it looks as though Google is now providing exact numbers in their Crawl Stats report in Google Webmaster Tools: I’m not sure how accurate these numbers are, but since they don’t appear to be rounded, I’m going to assume that they’re fairly accurate. So far Google has …