The much hyped Dave Pasternack SEO contest has come to a close and the winner is

As reported over at the SEroundtable and discussed on both WMW and Digital Point Forums, there seems to be a big problem w

Is my advice if you’d like to keep from getting hacked.

A paradox to SEO and Internet marketing is that the less your sites need to rely on search engines the more search engines need to rely on your site, and the more reliable your rankings will be.

There has been a lot of chatter on various blogs and forums lately about Digg banning domains (a lifetime ban it seems). Some sites have received this response from Digg:

Not sure if this is something new or not, but I just saw a CNN Money article which linked at a Wikipedia article about Joe Kraus as background on him.

In an attempt to be innovative on the mapping front Microsoft has created bird’s eye view 3D images of numerous cities.

Quintura updated their website to allow you to use their keyword research tool right from there home page, without needing to download any software.

Nick and company at Performancing are gearing up their ad network according to a blog post today. Via Threadwatch.

What do you get when you put the advertising industry, NSA security technology, and Google together? Dave.tv, which promises to extend advertising beyond just before and after online video clips.

These days Google offers up a customized logo for just about any event, so it’s no longer news.

In yesterday’s show #120 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about the teenager who gamed Google News with a fake press release.

This week’s The Economist magazine includes a feature called Technology Quarterly in which an article titled “Dancing with Google’s spiders” describes various aspects (good/bad) of search engine optimization including a few quotes from Matt Cutts of Google. (quotes at Threadwatch)

Another instance of the green phone icon appearing for some AdWords listings in Google search results has been reported online.

Hey, this is interesting. Google is testing some pay per call ads with a program called Click to Call.

The Google AdWords Professionals program is now available for non-U.S. companies.

This website, as a protest, is running a Google Cache. That is, not a cache like Google’s cache of other websites, but a cache of Google, page by page. Basically, its a protest against Google’s cache. Confused?

One of the most visible SEO pundits on the web is unquestionably, Aaron Wall.