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Matt Cutts joined Google as a Software Engineer in January 2000. Before Google, he was working on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky. Matt wrote SafeSearch, […]

During my recent trip to SMX Advanced, I sat down with Google’s Matt Cutts to discuss link building. In the discussion, we covered a wide variety of white hat link building techniques. What makes this interesting is the insight it provides on what Matt considers to be White Hat. Check it out, and then comment […]

Lisa Barone wrote an awesome post titled: SMX Advanced Goes to the Dark Side. With 60 comments (and counting), including several by Danny Sullivan, the discussion thread is fascinating as well. At the end of it all, it looks like the consensus is that the event was a bit more black hat than many people, […]

I just finished reading a post from Half’s SEO Notebook titled Your Obsession to Rank Higher is the Final Nail in Your Coffin. The whole post is a rant against those who don’t see that they need to do something special with their web sites, and who are, well, obsessed only with ranking higher. As […]

I am on the plane out to SMX Advanced in Seattle. This is Danny Sullivan’s second take at this show, which is targeted at more advanced SEOs and web marketers. As we all head out to Seattle, we all have the same thing in our mind – will the food be as good as it […]

This week’s interview is with Marc Johnson. Marc joined Hitwise as its Chief Marketing Officer in March 2008. It’s an engaging discussion about the kinds of things you can do with competitive intelligence tools.

Bob Massa has been involved in the search business since 1997. Bob is known for his direct and honest approach, along with his sense of humor. He operates a directory of niche Internet communities and a web marketing services firm know as Techndu. Interview Transcript Eric Enge: You have been doing online traffic development and […]

Our latest interview is with Bob Massa. What’s interesting about this one is that Bob has been involved in SEO and online marketing since 1997. That makes him a certified old timer, and it’s worth seeing what he things about the was search has changed and his ideas on link building.

One of the things I enjoy about following Seth Godin’s blog is that he is always looking at the bigger picture of the world’s of marketing and business. It just helps you step back from the day to day detail that tends to make up one’s business life. One of his recent posts was titled: […]

Recently I had the privilege to speak with Yahoo Chief Scientist Andrew Tomkins. This interview was a follow up to his keynote presentation at SES NY, where he spoke about the future of search, and Yahoo’s major initiative in that area. Check the interview out, and add any comments you may have below.

It startles me sometimes how many people out there are publishing very significant web sites, but don’t really understand what is going on with SEO. Worse, many major CMS systems make it impossible to build a search engine friendly web site. The types of issues that people run into with these systems is always pretty […]

Once you learn a little bit about how search engines work, moving a website from one location to another begins to sound like a frightening thing. The basic solutions that people talk about in the market are pretty straightforward. However, a recent post by Riona MacNamara on the Google Webmaster Central blog, titled: Best practices […]