Q: What is a canonical url? Do you have to use such a weird word, anyway?
A: Sorry that it’s a strange word; that’s what we call it around Google. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would […]

o Directory submissions.
These sites offer lists of niche directories to submit your link to:
http://www.directoryarchives.com
http://www.isedb.com
o News feeds.
PR Web and others offer free and paid services to give you a chance to secure links in news articles about your company.
http://www.urlwire.com/
http://www.prweb.com/
o Become an authority site and get sites to link for you for free. […]

A new patent application from Microsoft describes some ways to identify some of the spam pages that show up in search engine results. The research that led to the application started off by looking at something else completely, but a chance discovery turned up some interesting results.
The initial research began with something Microsoft calls Pageturner. […]

Browsing forums you will find this question asked many times by newbies. Most old timers and some people that just like to repeat the answer they where told will tell you 20 or so a month, after letting your site simmer for 6 months.
So at what point do you blow off all the bullshit that […]

Importance of varying your link text
Some webmasters learn how powerful link anchor text is and quickly rush off to build thousands of links using the exact same link text. This can raise a flag in search engines because the link pattern will appear unnatural. This is because naturally occurring link patterns include phrases such as […]

The Hilltop algorithm was proposed by two researchers working under the auspices of the University of Toronto. One of those researchers is now at Google and Google also acquired the patent early in 2003. The algorithm overcomes problems with broad search terms which return large sets of documents that have to be ranked. It is […]

Mission: Impossible III is cut for violent scenes and cultural references before its release in China, reports say.

The creators of South Park are among the stars headlining at this year’s Edinburgh TV festival.

AP - Off-key pop idol William Hung has something new to crow about: he's being crowned "Artichoke King" in the small city that calls itself "artichoke capital of the world."

Reuters - CBS Radio on Thursday said it
reached a seven-year deal to use Arbitron Inc’s portable people
meter rating method, becoming the first major radio company to
sign on to the new technology.