Eric Enge

A little while back I did a post titled: SEOs Must Work Closely with Development. The basic thesis of the post was that neither of these parties can work without close communication with each other. Ultimately, this is critical to the success of the site. One reader (named “Alla”) wrote in suggesting that this is […]

Recently I had the chance to interview Steven Marder of Eurekster. Eurekster is a true pioneer in the field of social search. The interview provides some great insights into the lessons that they have learned so far, and how this space is likely to evolve over time. Check the interview out to learn more. You […]

Aaron Wall put up a post about a new Google filter that causes people with high ranking terms to be bumped down to position #6. There is also a thread at Webmaster World about this phenomenon. This is still reasonably speculative in nature, but there are a lot of people who have seen this. Aaron […]

The interview of the week is a podcast with Jonathan Mendez. You can read a transcript of the podcast here.

For the longest time, I let my blog remain on the 2.02 version of WordPress. One of the reasons that this was the case is that upgrading WordPress used to feel like a potential nightmare. While I am moderately technical, I am no web server geek by any means, and in the past, there were […]

This week’s interview is with Mike Nichols of Microsoft. It was an intriguing discussion about image search, Microsoft’s new video search, and celebrity search. Read the interview to see what I learned in the discussion, and if you would like to comment on the interview you can do that below.

Have you ever written up a beautiful technical SEO plan for a site and then have it come back from development all messed up? There truly is no win in making a set of SEO recommendations and throwing it over the wall to the development team. The results come back wrong a stunningly high percentage […]

Sep Kamvar is the engineering lead for personalization at Google, and a consulting professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University. Prior to joining Google, Sep was the Founder of Kaltix, a personalized search engine company that was acquired by Google in 2003. Interview Transcript Eric Enge: You and I spoke previously about Google Gadgets, and […]

Our interview of this week is with Google’s Sep Kamvar. It provided a lot of insight into Google’s views on personalization. Check it out by reading the article. If you want to comment on it, please go ahead and do so below.

Just a quick note to point you to my interview on Webmaster Radio. In the interview, Dave Davies asks me about my thoughts on the SES Chicago event, and where it’s going. Nothing earth-shaking here, but hey, you get to hear my silky smooth voice!

Here is a great post from SEO Blackhat titled Don’t Buy Links – Buy the Whole Site. It offers some good and practical advice about paid links. Here is a great summary quote from the post: Generally, the sites you can still buy links from that can pass link juice (help you site rank in […]

This week’s interview is with Grad Conn of Microsoft. We spoke about Microsoft’s unique new health search product, and how they have integrated that into the core experience of Live Search. Read the interview for the details of how and why Microsoft put it together, and comment below if you want to discuss it.