I have been telling people to stay away from using sub-domains for well over a year now. The frequency of search spammers using sub-domains to attempt to manipulate search results is growing by leaps and bounds. I have been saying the search engines are going to make adjustments to their algorithms to combat this problem [...]

With all the fuss about duplicate content penalties and filters, I thought it quite interesting that BestBuy.com has found a way to get in legal trouble due to it. Yes, you read right the State Attorney General of Connecticut has initiated an investigation into BestBuy.com’s use of duplicate content.
Apparently what has been happening is employee’s [...]

A North Carolina firm named Fortune Interactive is seeking a US Patent that they claim will have a “Radical Impact” on SEO. Lead by Mike Marshal and Andy Beal, the company claims their SEMLogic technology studies and evaluates over 100,000 data points of on- and off-page ranking factors of more than 100 competitors in any [...]

A few days ago, I wrote about a new Google search query which would show you only results from a site that were listed in Google’s supplemental index. Google has now disabled this search query. The query result seems to now show the standard results for a “site:” query.
I am not surprised they did this [...]

Recently, a blogger named “2K” posted a search query format over at SEOmoz which returns only pages which are in Google’s supplemental index. The query is not completely accurate as you will see below, but I was interested in giving it a little test.
If you want to try it, just use the following query format [...]