If you want to get a Matt/Google/SEO video fix, you’re in luck. Interviews from PubCon are streaming in. Here are a few I’ve seen:Audio InterviewsStephan Spencer and I sat down and talked for about 30 minutes. You can read the interview transcript. That link also includes the MP3 if you’d prefer to listen.I think Jay [...]

  In case you missed it, a short while ago we posted a video about how to use ALT attributes for images. I’ll include the video here, but I’ll also use this opportunity to remind everyone that you really should subscribe to the Official Google Webmaster Blog (Atom link for feedreaders). Here’s the video:In the comments, [...]

  Lauren Weinstein alerted readers that Canadian ISP Rogers was modifying the Google home page for some of its users:Go over to Lauren’s blog and click on the thumbnail to see the full-size image; it may be your only chance to see the word “Yahoo!” on Google’s home page in three different places. Wired managed [...]

  Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear.Historically, it’s been kind of a wash about when to use subdomains vs. subdirectories. Just as a reminder, in a URL such as [...]

  Wow, PubCon was a blast. I can’t even begin to go into a full recap, so I’ll mention a few of my favorite things:- talking to a ton of people. I saw lots of familiar faces, but I was (happily) surprised at how many people came up just to introduce themselves and chat for a [...]

  Tomorrow I’m off to PubCon, so I won’t be posting on this blog for a few days. As long as I won’t be on the blog, I might as well leave up a cat post for people to check out.This weekend we put our (artificial) Christmas tree up. Ozzie decided to investigate:He spent a little [...]

  Next week, I’ll be at PubCon in Vegas. Here’s how to find me.- I get into town Tuesday afternoon. I’ll be on a 7 p.m. panel Tuesday night with other search engine reps from Yahoo!, Live, and Ask. Guy Kawasaki will be moderating.- On Wednesday, I’ll be sitting in on sessions during the day. Google [...]

  It’s been a busy week. Some of the stuff I didn’t get a chance to talk about this week:- It sounds like Google will participate in the 700 Mhz wireless auction. It also sounds like there are anti-collusion rules that mean that participating companies aren’t supposed discuss the auction, so I don’t expect to talk [...]

  I’ve talked quite a lot before about buying or selling links that pass PageRank. Today I wanted to walk through a concrete example of paid posts and show why the major search engines don’t want to be affected by links within paid posts. The problem is best illustrated by a serious example: suppose you just [...]

  I still hear from people who get confused by solicitations in the mail. Here’s an example one:At first glance, this semi-official looking letter seems to require bill payment for some sort of “annual website search engine listing.” But if you read the fine print at the bottom, you’ll see:This is not a bill. This is [...]