Matt Cutts says Google is selectively notifying some webmasters of penalties via their Sitemaps accounts - this is huge news, even if it isn't a fully fledged feature yet. We asked for this multiple times in Matts blog and Sitemaps...

Finally the e-consultancy SEO Best Practice Guide is publicly available. I got a copy the other month when I helped Dave Chaffey with proofing and updates, and have to say this is by far the most detailed guide to SEO...

You know something has changed in the perception enterprise search engine optimisation (SEO) when you see three of the very biggest names MSN, Ebay and Yahoo! taking it seriously enough to independently recruit SEO Managers. http://members.microsoft.com/careers/international/default.asp?lang=EN&loc=UKD&job=90295896&jobslist= http://pages.ebay.co.uk/community/aboutebay/jobs/Natural_Search_Manager.html http://gs.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_yahoo01.asp?newms=jj&id=30180 Darn, it...

Google snuck out a nice little tool yesterday called 'Related Links', I think from an SEO perspective it is quite interesting in terms of assessing what else Google thinks is similar to your website. http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/ Here's what they think is...

Brilliant analysis of the automated clickfraud issue created by spyware vendors, in particular their relationship as part of Yahoo!'s partner network. A few recurring offenders on this list I know we had pulled from our Pay Per Click campaigns distribution...

Krugle the code search engine, started initial beta trials last week with a sample of 1,000 from the 35,000 people that signed up to take part. A 'code' search engine like Krugle that allows us to search through actual programming...