The interview of the week is a podcast with Jonathan Mendez. You can a transcript of the podcast here. ... Read More >
Archives for 2007
Upgrading to WordPress 2.3.1
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 ... Read More >
Latest Interview: Microsoft’s Mike Nichols
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 ... Read More >
SEOs Must Work Closely With Development
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 ... Read More >
Sep Kamvar and Eric Enge Talk About Personalization
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 ... Read More >
Latest Interview: Google’s Sep Kamvar
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. ... Read More >
Webmaster Radio Interview
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 there, but hey, you get to hear my silky smooth voice! ... Read More >
More on the Topic of Paid Links
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 ... Read More >
Latest Interview: Microsoft’s Grad Conn
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 ... Read More >
Eric Enge interviews Live Search’s Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols is Group Program Manager for Live Search. He is responsible for the planning and design of verticals such as Image search, Video search and News search, as well as Query Suggestions to help people get to exactly what they're looking for. Nichols joined Microsoft in 1996. Prior ... Read More >
Eric Enge interviews Live Search’s Grad Conn
As senior director, product marketing, Grad Conn is responsible for both the enterprise and consumer sides of the Health Solutions Group (HSG) at Microsoft Corp., including market mapping and segmentation, brand and communication strategy, and all marketing communication and sales ... Read More >
Foosball at SES Chicago!
SES Chicago will begin tomorrow, and STC will be there. We are holding a special event on behalf of Search Engine Watch, an open foosball challenge. This takes place on Wednesday at lunch (12:30 to 2:00) at booth #100 in the Exhibition Hall. The first doubles team to beat the team of ... Read More >
