Fair Isaac? Who is that? Well, let’s try it this way. Do you know what a FICO score is? FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation. They are the people behind the biggest scam in the US economy today. I call it a scam because nobody outside of the company knows exactly how the scores […]

In case you live in a hole in the wall or just don’t care, Yahoo! has apparently made some kind of index update or algo change that has caused a reshuffling of the SERPs. Since I really don’t pay much attention to my traffic on a daily basis anymore, I was not aware of […]

Pretty funny post over on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog about Google copying Yahoo. I can understand it if some 13 year old kid copy’s some website’s design, but a company with a $147 billion market cap is copying a one pager ad for IE7 from their competition? What stoner web dev guy/girl at Google thought […]

Well, I am not much of a hacker or for the super l33ty folks, h4×0r. But, I was thinking about hitting up the upcoming Yahoo! Hack Day which is coming up at the end of the month. I am just starting to get into putting some decent little applications together using the Yahoo […]

Well, it was a fun ride, but I think it is time that everyone is going to have to come back to the basics here pretty soon. I have been running the Coop on a bunch of sites since its inception and I think those days are coming to an end. I suspect […]

Ok, I am definitely late in the game on this one, but I have to throw out some serious props to Aaron Wall for putting together the mother of all Firefox Extensions…SEO for Firefox. This little bad boy makes your Google and Yahoo searches more robust than Pamela Anderson after her latest surgery. […]

I have just been forwarded an email that helps me to get behind giving ~11 million illegal immigrants blanket amnesty. Finally, a compelling reason why I think this whole amnesty thing is a good idea. Check it out on Yahoo.

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Yahoo! is reporting a new Yahoo! index update this morning. According to the blurb on their blog, they are and will be coming more frequently due to improvements Yahoo has made in their indexing system. I guess I need to do some more work on the sites ’cause I didn’t see more thant one […]

Well, just in case you thought that the Google + Yahoo! and MSN Search Department of Justice Subpoenas were isolated cases…Informationweek apparently found out they weren’t. Looks like they were not just going after search logs, but potentially attempting to correlate that information from ISPs and internet access providers. Sweet.
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Looks like Yahoo! has just announced that they updated their index this past weekend. Changes in SERPs as well as increased crawler activity by that crazy bot, Slurp, are to be expected.

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I am sure a few of you got this email this morning from NextStudent, a CJ affiliate for Student Consolidation Loans. I am not sure how the hell they propose to track this “new program” that they are “offering”but, it sounds like one hell of a deal for affiliates:
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I have been losing respect for the reporter on the street more and more these days. I am not sure if it is me getting older and actually listening to the things that they say and the “facts” that they report, but I find that they mis-report (read: make stuff up) facts and news […]

If you are serious about rankings and you don’t like to waste your own time, then you are going to want to forget everything your mother told you about link building and read Stuntdubl’s link building “how-to” ASAP. It is not only a great lesson in link building, it is a great road map […]

So, I decided that I would take up learning Python while I was down in Mexico. I plowed through 150 pages or so while down there and thought that when I got back, I would try and get to working on a search tool for a project I am working on. Searching around […]

Keeping with the tradition of highlighting the best of “x” for 2005, the world of SEO has been producing their own lists of the “best of 2005.” So, Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch has put together the list of SEW’s best of 2005. Probably the best list of good SEO information I […]

Yahoo announced some more cool shortcuts to their search engine this morning. I have to say, it is nice to see Yahoo’s committment to making their search engine better each day. I wish they had done it earlier, but then we might be talking about Yahoo! like we talk about Google today. More competition […]

Most of us have heard of Google Answers before. Google Answers has a group of 500 or so researchers who will answer your question for as little as $2.50. The idea is simple, pay someone else to find the answer to your question. It is like having your own research department or analyst on your […]

Yahoo! just announced that you can now submit Site Explorer feeds directly to Yahoo! just like you can with Google Sitemaps. Yahoo! supports just about anything you want to throw at them inclucing RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, a text file with a list of URLs, each URL at the start […]

I think Jagger has reminded many people that taking shortcuts and using unnatural linking schemes can mean a short lifetime for their website in Google. Oilman put out a nice little natural link building tutorial or tip sheet this morning. A few good tips that I think many people ignore or forget about when […]

Yahoo announced some cool Yahoo! Search shortcuts for all of the little search add-ons they have (ie: finding movie trailers). Pretty cool stuff actually, they have search shortcuts for things like finding the best gasoline prices in your zip code, traffic reports, movie showtimes, etc, etc, etc. Check it out if you ever […]