As of March 14, 2017, Dmoz.org, the Open Directory Project, will no longer be available. The word on the street is: DMOZ shutting down. If you go to the site's home page, you'll see the message from the editors: … [Continue reading]
I've written several times about various domain name email spam (scams) out there. There is one in particular, now, that seems to be very persistent with their sending of emails. The Subject of the email that you receive is usually "DomainName.com … [Continue reading]
Ever since Google started introducing Featured Snippets into their search results, I always thought of Google Featured Snippets as being informational and helpful. And, non-commercial. Well, today my opinion of featured snippets quickly changed when … [Continue reading]
According to Gary Illyes, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, the Google search engine has no duplicate content penalty. In a Tweet on February 13, 2017, Gary said the following: … [Continue reading]
Matt Cutts, former head of the web spam team at Google, has officially resigned from Google. His last official day at Google was December 31, 2016, he announced on his blog. … [Continue reading]
Google apparently can't publicly make up their mind as to whether or not the link search operator works or not. About a year ago I noticed that the link search operator (e.g., link:billhartzer.com) wasn't working reliably for any website. At that … [Continue reading]