Google, SEO

Google guidelines against modern web development?

Any web developer knows it: Create websites according the Google’s Webmaster Guidelines! If you read the current blog post from Google Webmaster Central these Guidelines are not changed. Only the help pages are extended and give more information about each rule. About the rule “Hidden text and links” there is the following information available: Hiding [...]

The PR factor and ranking websites

Is Google PR getting more importance than is due to it? It would seem so considering the barrage of threads on different webmaster forums with respect to the impending PR update. DP, Sitepoint, Namepros all have various threads where one of the members seems to have noticed a PR change to one of his sites [...]

MSN rank higher than Google?

On the blogger site for Alexa I found today this interesting statement: Google and MSN have been going back and forth for the #2 spot in the Alexa Rankings for the last 8 months or so. Google had been on track to displace MSN as the second most popular site on the Web (behind Yahoo) [...]