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I35W Bridge Updated in Google Maps

Google Maps quickly accomodated changes in transportation infrastructure after a widely-publicized bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

Disasters & Google

How long until Google Maps ceases attempting to route people via the I35-W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis?

Submissions: Snake Oil

People persist in believing submissions are necessary for the top 4 search engines.

Mythology of Sponsored WordPress Templates

I really don’t believe most WordPress sponsored templates are ranking rockets for the sponsors.

New Webmaster Central Feature

Google’s Webmaster Central added a feature allowing secured communication between the search giant and webmasters. Neato.

Every Snowflake is Unique. Are You?

Embrace your unique selling proposition.

Minneapolis Locals: SEO Event 7/11

MIMA’s hosting a search event in Minneapolis. Let’s all go.

Flash: It’s Not Just Search

The Google Webmaster Blog has a post about uses of Flash in Web pages. Naturally, as one might expect from Google, they focus on the ability of Googlebot or other spiders to ’see’ Flash.

Nothing’s wrong with this, mind you. Flash navigation is bad and needs to not exist.

But there are plenty of good reasons to [...]

Helpful Domain Tip

If you’re out registering a dot-com domain, and an available domain seems too good to be true here in 2007, go see if it has any residual inbound links (use Yahoo!) or a history over at archive.org.

If you get a really coherent domain name, chances are it’s been used before. Now, sometimes you’ll be fine. [...]

Directories & The Sniff Test

I think any reasonably competent SEO has the good sense on how to tell if a directory is ‘good’ or ‘eh.’

Unfortunately, many of our clients, let alone non-clients who think they can’t afford SEO advice, don’t have the well-honed sense of smell. Nor should they be expected to — one of the advantages for a [...]