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Last year on Christmas Day, Barry reported over at Search Engine Roundtable how Adam Lasnik and I spent a bit of time answering questions on the Google Webmaster Central forums. This year, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller keeps up the tradition. In the spirit of the season, I thought it might be … Continue reading »

Google actually tailors results for individuals to deliver the most relevant, useful results possible, which may sound like a good thing overall. Google personalizes search in the following ways. These are: 1. dealing with search history, 2. Web history, 3. use of other Google services, 4. previous search and click behavior, 5. location, … Continue reading »

Catching up with Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. Listen to the podcast

If you’re around in about an hour (1pm pacific), check out me and Rand on Webmaster Radio. You never know what we might talk about. Head on into the chat room and mock us ask us questions. Or just send a twitter to @vanessafox and hear my phone buzz throughout the show. I’ll … Continue reading »

I completely understand that consumers should read their warranties and that businesses are not charities and that sometimes Wired magazine makes mistakes. And I have been involved with technology long enough to know that it’s all shiny and sparkly to distract us from the fact that it doesn’t work, often breaks, and to … Continue reading »

Earlier today, we reported that over 4 million Google AdSense ads were being indexed by Microsoft Live Search. Tonight, the Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center blog has posted that they’ve identified and fixed the issue and that search results should return to normal within the next few days. What happened? Google AdWords URLs … Continue reading »