Mike McDonald of WebProNews chats with Brett Tabke, CEO of Webmasterworld, about all things PubCon. read more

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There's no need to introduce Brett Tabke's '26 Steps To 15k a Day'. The page, that was posted almost seven years ago, has had nearly 29 million page views and 15 million unique visitors. It has also been used as a training manual by numerous Fortune 100 companies.read more

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Now, more than ever, marketing companies and consultants need to get competitive for client dollars and what better way than advancing your knowledge and your network?read more

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The moderator at WebmasterWorld, Receptional has said in a WebmasterWorld thread that he got an invitation from Microsoft, asking him for participate in the adExcellence accreditation program in the United Kingdom. read more

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Last week I spoke on two (yes, two) panels (at the same time) at the Pubcon conference held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. I would to thank Brett Tabke and Webmasterworld for putting on yet another great conference. read more

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The last day of WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon is literally a gathering in a pub. This is the genesis of how Pubcon was started, an informal gathering of members from WebmasterWorld.read more

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Both Google and Yahoo! have decided to provide website owners with a "holiday season treat" by updating their respective search results (SERPs) - simultaneously! Both the major search engines have been executing some algorithm changes causing the usual ranking turmoil for webmasters and site owners over the last week. read more

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Microsoft seems to be regionalizing searches observes Woz on a thread on Webmasterworld. read more

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Subdomains may no longer result in several individual listings on Google's search engine results pages (SERPs). Word from Matt Cutts at PubCon Las Vegas says that soon subdomains will be treated like folders, limiting results to 2 URLs per domain. read more

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In a thread titled, "Qualified professionals blocked on Google" at WebmasterWorld, a new face of Google came into limelight.read more

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Just ahead of the big event scheduled to take place next week in Silicon Valley, Microsoft landed up in a big problem. read more

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In a recent thread at WebmasterWorld, some members have reported that Google is asking searchers to suggest some URLs for specific searches. "Help improve search for everyone" is how Google is asking for suggestions. Google asks the users to Click a link to submit a link. The link open a form where you need to login. read more

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Google appears to be testing categories in its search results, according to reports in a webmaster forum, dividing results under headings like "comparison shopping" and "reviews." read more

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Evidence is mounting that Google is disabling or has disabled the query command that allows webmasters to show pages included in the supplemental results. read more

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Google’s crackin’ down - some AdWords users have received an email stating that the company will soon forbid any advertisements related to the drug ephedra. read more

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SERoundtable looks at a WebmasterWorld thread to find out What Type of Traffic Can You Expect from Yahoo Ads Compared to Google Ads.read more

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Ad Relevancy & Quality Scores Google has again and again touted the value of their targeted marketing, but most of the fortune 500 ad dollars are not spent on targeted marketing. A couple weeks ago in a WebmasterWorld thread many advertisers complained about getting killed by another quality score update. read more

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Google's search for utmost relevancy is hitting affiliate marketers hard, who are noticing their best converters diminishing as keyword prices raise. Relevancy has been the company's buzzword, but critics say it's more about the Almighty Coin (pr. Kwan). read more

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Steve Lobo, Senior Manager Search Marketing at eBay gave an informative talk on paid search at the eBay Live conference in Boston. read more

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The migration of the Slurp is complete, says Yahoo. Over the past few weeks, the search engine has been transitioning its crawler, dubbed (disgustingly) "Slurp," to a new address at crawl.yahoo.net. Adjust your server logs as necessary and join the curmudgeons who are unimpressed. read more

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The automotive world can get pretty shady, but it still came as a surprise when Yahoo was recently caught “serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users.”  This is known as “cloaking,” and it took place on the Yahoo Autos site. read more

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A statement made by Google recently bagged lots of critical feedbacks on a WebmasterWorld thread. In a Google update on spam reporting Google claimed that they will investigate all bad SERP reports. read more

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Yahoo! is trying to get its act together with regard to click fraud. The first fall out of Yahoo!'s efforts is banning of foreign site visitors from YPN ads. Yahoo! is intent on restricting internal ad frauds by barring visitors from certain countries from viewing the ads. read more

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A WebmasterWorld thread informs about Microsoft's claims to take over the Internet search. An article on NYTimes reports about Microsoft's future plans.read more

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A couple of weeks back a major Microsoft AdCenter bug costed advertisers huge amounts. This bug made the advertisers pay a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for. However, this bug was soon fixed and before the advertisers could even raise their brows they were paid back. read more

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Brett Tabke recently opened up a forum thread on WebmasterWorld titled: Yahoo SERPS vs Google SERPS - If you can’t beat em - join em?. Brett also provides a screen shot comparing the results screens of the two engines.read more

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The issue of website cloaking bubbled to the surface of the search engine optimization world again, as a handful of noteworthy names debated the tactic and WebmasterWorld's alleged use of it over time. read more

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A major Microsoft AdCenter bug costs advertisers to shell out huge amounts. This bug makes the advertisers may a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for. A Webmasterworld thread addressing the same issue has tremendous amount of posts where affected advertisers have addressed the situation.  My daily spend increased almost 10-fold from $140 to over $1350 yesterday! read more

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A WebmasterWorld thread inquires how the sites are ranked within the Yahoo! Directory. Search Engine Roundtable  explains in a post that the sites are ranked in Yahoo! Directory on the basis of popularity. Search Engine Roundtable says:read more

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Search Engine Roundtable has reported the fixing of Google AdWords CPC Price Gouge Bug. The bug pushed up minimum bids to unnatural highs for some keywords. Webmasterworld members have reported relative normalcy over the weekend. my accout is 75% or more back to normal. read more

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