What is Google Toolbar PageRank™?

If you use the Google toolbar when surfing the web then you have probably seen the little green colored box that refers to Google’s Toolbar PageRank(PR); their proprietary tool that simplifies which websites are more important than others on a scale of 1-10 (or...

Performance Based SEO vs. Traditional SEO

Traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has long been the practice of many companies.  The client paid the fees proposed by the SEO company, and the SEO company achieved the placement for the desired search terms of the client.  When this worked everyone was...

Cuil’s intentional flop

In an earlier blog post, and like many others, it seems that about 70% of bloggers gave Cuil a serious lashing in post after post.  And that’s ok, I still believe that if you plan to launch a search engine and claim it will be “better” than Google, a...

Cuil: First impressions mean everything

Monday’s buzz about Cuil should ease itself by tomorrow.  Cuil, pronounced “cool,” blasted off its press releases and got an excellent response from the media today.  It was the “top story” on CNN at 7am PST, and most of the Aussie and...

Search Engine Optimization Malpractice

The business of Search Engine Optimization has suffered from many ill-fated companies, and been blessed by those SEO professionals who look forward to the next generation of the web.  Unfortunately, there are still many SEO firms that don’t have the strength or...