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Posts on search engine optimization (SEO) from the Search Engine Panel blog in Toronto, Canada. Information on search engine optimization, keyword research, link building, website development, programming code optimization, and web analytics.

SEOs, web publishers, and basically anyone with a website: brace yourselves for more Google algorithm updates coming this year. Even if you’re not primarily a content hub, if you get a large amount of traffic organically through search engines, now is the time to beef up your content and clean up any links coming from [...]

Interflora, which is a large flower delivery service based in the United Kingdom, had their organic search ranking penalized approximately 11 days ago. Many people, especially the folks at Interflora, are relieved that such a penalty came after Valentine’s Day instead of before. The financial and business impact had this penalty occur prior to the [...]

After many months of finger-crossing, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the E.U.’s legislative European Commission have given the green light to the proposed search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo. It’s been a rough ride between the second and third-place search engines, which even includes some tough words being thrown at each other in [...]

For the second year in a row now, Google has updated the publicly-visible Toolbar PageRank with the change of calendar years. The last update was approximately three months ago in October, so it’s been looking pretty steady with updates in January, April, July, and October. I find that having PageRank updates at regular intervals is [...]

At SMX East on Wednesday, Google set forth a proposal for crawling and indexing content that is dynamically created using AJAX. According to their research, as much as 70% of content on the web today is dynamically-generated (mostly through JavaScript), and this trend is only going to continue. So in an attempt to keep up [...]