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Angus Norton is the Senior Director, Live Search, at Microsoft Corporation. Angus previously has had several other roles at Microsoft, including Senior Director, Developer Platform Evangelism, Director, Windows Mobile, and Group Product Manager, Enterprise Servers & Tools. Angus was one of the few that have won the Microsoft Circle of Excellence award. This is an […]

This week I am publishing a recent interview with Microsoft’s Angus Norton. We start by exploring the recent Silk Road initiative announced by Microsoft at Pubcon 2008. After that, we spend some time speaking about Microsoft’s initiatives in search moving forward, and their plans to improve their market share in the future. Check it out!

One of the things that is critical in doing link building work is developing tricks for finding the right contact info. Here is the scenario: You have backlinked your competitor You have identified the high-value pages that link to them You now need to figure out how to contact that site and get a link […]

Alex Chudnovsky is the founder and managing director of Majestic-12, a UK based firm that specializes in cross-platform .NET/C# development of scalable high-performance data analysis applications with a primary focus on the creation of the World Wide Web search engine. Majestic also uses the trade name Majestic SEO which publishes a backlinking tool that is […]

I recently did an interview with Alex Chudnovsky of Majestic SEO. After my recent interview with Rand Fishkin about Linkscape Alex contacted me to discuss his backlinking tool. Majestic SEO offers a competing tool to Linkscape, and therefore it made for an interesting discussion. It looks like this market is heating up!

Eric Ward founded the Web’s first link building and web promotion services, called NetPOST and URLwire, in 1994. Today Eric offers those services as well as training and private consulting to help companies learn how to generate links, publicity, and online buzz for their Web content. Eric has developed content linking strategies for PBS.org, WarnerBros, […]

This week’s interview is with Eric Ward, aka Link Moses, the person with arguably the longest running history of link building of anyone in the business. Eric and I focused the conversation on the process of reaching major influencers. If you are shooting for the big time with your web site, then reaching the major […]

Dr. Larry Cornett is VP of the Yahoo Search consumer products division. In this capacity, he is primarily responsible for the Yahoo web search experience and heads up a multinational team of product managers, designers, and developers focused on creating a world-class search experience. Prior to this role, Dr. Cornett was a director at eBay, […]

This week’s interview is with Dr. Larry Cornett, the VP of the Yahoo Search consumer products division. Our discussion focused on SearchMonkey, Yahoo’s new effort to remap the user experience in search. We talked in particular about Yahoo’s recent announcement that certain SearchMonkey applications have been defaulted to on for all search users. Personally, I […]

Talk about bad metrics, cost per link is one of the worst. Let’s talk about why, but first, I am going to outline how it comes up. Typically what happens is that an SEO is performing work on behalf of a client, or the company they work for. They are diligently adding the links. Then […]

The following is the transcript of an interview of Brett Crosby, Senior Manager of Google Analytics, conducted in several sessions in January 2007. He has been shaping the Web Analytics industry for ten years as the co-founder of Urchin Software Corporation and more recently as a senior product leader at Google. He is currently responsible […]

The Google Analytics team recently announced a whole series of updates that focused on new enterprise-class features. This included some great stuff, such as segmentation, custom reporting, integrated AdSense reporting, motion charts, and a new API that provides access to almost anything inside GA. I decided to dig a little deeper and interview Brett Crosby […]