As the title suggests, this is A Really Simple Guide to RSS.

Google launches Patent Search for US patents using the familiar Book Search interface.

When and why do Google de-index pages?

Perhaps it’s just me, but when 2 pages about Thinkhouse PR disappear from Google’s index there’s something fishy going on…

Unofficial MSN Live! page removal tool. What’s the big deal with that?

Well it’s not only your own pages that can be removed. This is a terrible, terrible hole in MSN’s algorithm.

Have you seen any strange results in Google’s search results? Maybe asking if the link you clicked was useful?

Here are some interesting remarks made by Google’s Director of Research, and a few strange cases of Google soliciting feedback from users.

Very interesting find by SEO by the SEA. It appears that your browser is sharing your search history with all and sundry.

Two interesting pieces of news from Google today – universal Sitemaps and Mobile Ads come to Ireland.

Do you use Google Adwords to promote your website? Could you be spending large sums of money with no chance of making a return?

Quite a lot of sites are you know…

We now have over 100m websites hosted on the planet.

Finding what your looking for is getting more important every single day and the growth in content means that our reliance on the search engine is set to increase.

Marketing your on-line property has never been so important. Think about it for a minute – if people cant find your website they cant find you and they cant buy your products.

Politicians are embracing the Internet as a very modern soap box, not only to get their message across, but also to manipulate the message their opponents are able to portray.

Google can now crawl and index URL’s containing an ‘&id’ parameter in their query string.

Unconditional Google love is something we all want. Let’s face it, Google is one of the top referrers in the world so keeping her happy has to be one of the most important jobs of any webmaster.

Here are my 10 top tips to getting and keeping that Google love.

Many of us love Google. Everyday we rely on countless Google services to make our lives a little bit better.

But what happens when Google wont play ball with your website? Here are 13 deadly sins that are sure to see your webmaster advances spurned by Google.

Can your domain name help you get top rankings in the Google?

Well this little experiment might help us find out.

Could Google be able to listen to a politician talking and predict with accuracy whether they are telling porkies?

You better believe it!

Looking for a quick and easy way to combine multiple Google analytics accounts?

Well look no further – here’s a quick 5 step guide.

I opened my RSS reader this morning to find that Google had completely renovated the place. And I’m not talking a lick of paint here.

Discovering Google search volumes for any given phrase is a notoriously difficult task. Google offers a number of tools to help webmasters and site owners to research the keyword phrases people are interested in.

Link count is one of the most valuable currencies in Search Engine Optimisation. Trusted links are the most valuable by far.

Sometimes links can be your friend, but sometimes they can be your enemy…

Well the buzz about Dublin Property Company is certainly taking off. Well done to Funda Ireland and their marketing folk for putting together a great campaign.

If you were to ask 100 people in the street ‘Which Irish companies have benefited the most form the economic boom over the past decade?‘ I’m quite sure what the majority of the responses would be.

It’s unusual to think that probably the richest and most powerful indigenous sector of the Irish economy is so poorly represented on-line.

It’s funny how arch rivals sometimes sweet up to each other. Well OK, it seems a lot more likely that there is a problem with Google’s index, but the current #1 position on Google for ‘seo ireland’ is Yahoo!

Previously invite-only, Google Analytics has now opened to the masses for business.

Well after some gentle persuasion of MySQL the AOL-data.tgz files have surrendered some interesting, if not wholly unexpected, information about the relative strengths and click through rates of SERP positions. The dataset contained 36,389,567 search queries with 19,434,540 clickthroughs. While we all knew the importance of the top 3 positions in the Google SERPs, this […]

A number of tools are appearing allowing the interrogation of the released AOL material: AOL Search Database (currently under heavy load) and (IMO) a more superior site: DontDelete (new domain so you may have to access via 63.212.167.185) I am currently indexing the entire dataset myself (2.1GB of search goodness) and hope to bring you […]

[EDIT] You can find some mined gems from this data over at the plentyoffish blog (and while your there, learn about a guy who makes >$10k PER DAY from Adsense on his free dating site). According to this post AOL released, and very, very promptly removed, the entire search records of 500,000 users collected over […]

Google has updated its Sitemaps application and added a number of new features under the umbrella ‘Google Webmaster Central‘: The Sitemaps UI seems to have been cleaned up quite a bit and my first impressions are that it is somewhat easier to navigate and problems/errors are far better highlighted now. So far I have only […]

Matt Cutts has posted two more videos: 1. Session 9: All about datacenters has some info about variations across datacenters; 2. Session 10: Lightning Round! some other bits ‘n pieces regarding how Google scores HTML tags, in particular bold tag verses strong and i tag versus em.

More Matt Cutts Video Blogs about updates, dupe content and PageRank amongst others.

You can find a very good synopsis of a recent study by Hamburg University into Internet usage habits over at WebSiteOptimization.com. You should check out the clickthrough heatmap for Google (Figure 5: The Golden Triangle – Eye Tracking on Google Results (Hotchkiss 2005)) which shows the importance of the top 3 positions in Google SERPs. […]

Matt Cutts video blogs about Google and SEO.

From the IXQuick press release: As personal privacy concerns create growing alarm about the freedom of the Internet, the Ixquick metasearch engine (www.ixquick.com) has taken a pioneering step: starting today, Ixquick will permanently delete all personal search details gleaned from its users from the log files. This may be a welcome development for searchers but […]

Just noticed that my Google Analytics accounts now have 10 profiles per account. I use Analytics for all my projects and having more profiles per account means less logging in and logging out Now all I have to do is figure out a way to consolidate these accounts without losing historic data Great news all […]

From Hitwise.co.uk: As of June 2006 Google now commands 77% of all search executions in the UK. Both MSN and Yahoo each account for just 7% of that market. I am not aware of similar statistics for the Irish market but would imagine that the UK market could be quite a good proxy for Ireland. […]

I often see questions related to getting your website into country specific SERPs. There have been some urban myths regarding where your IP address resolves to, where you server is located and the TLD used.