Merry Christmas . If you don't celebrate Christmas, then I wish you a very happy holiday season. I'll be blogging about the Top 5 intersections of SEO and Usability after Christmas. But today I am staring at 200 pages of my client's site that need work. So, I am gonna go do that today instead of blog.. lol . Be safe today and tomorrow! Tonight, I recommend staying inside, getting some hot chocolate and watching my San Diego Chargers DESTROY the Broncos on national TV!

It never ceases to amaze me as I read forums and listen to "experts" in SEO talk about how Page Rank isn't important anymore. Yeah I know the standard line about "there are 100 different elements to the algo and PR is just one of em". It makes me laugh a little I have to admit. And the reason is that Page Rank is still an important concept for any SEO to understand. And not because you should only chase links from high Page Rank sites.

Google Webmaster Blog announced yesterday that Google will soon eliminate the differences between how they search the main index and the supplemental index )results( for queries . Google maintains two separate indexes, the main index and the supplemental index. Until now, pages in the supplemental index had less opportunity to rank well for competitive phrases and usually only ranked well for long tail keyword searches. Thanks to new Google technology innovations,

I haven't had a chance to read it today, but Google has a new patent about links, specifically anchor text . Guess I know what I am doing for the next couple days.. lol . I lost my flag football playoff game 7 - 6. That's a tough one to lose. Especially when I had receivers drop 7 of my passes. You can't drop 7 passes in a playoff game and expect to win. However, my Chargers look pretty good in completely destroying the Lions 51 - 14. If we win the next two games,

Yesterday Benj wrote a great article about making AJAX SEO friendly. One of the recommendations he made was to "Solution 1: Serve Alternative Content" and he suggested that providing an alternative navigation to "actual pages on their own URLs that would load the same content as what would load in the AJAX links." This SEO solution will work fine for some folks,

Today on Google Blogoscoped , Philipp Lenssen illustrates a new Google experiment in which Google takes some of the universal search results that would normally be displayed in the main serps column and instead displays them on the right where you might normally see PPC ads. He makes a couple of interesting observations concerning the reasons that Google might have for doing this,

Signed up for www.Feedburner.com for the SEO blog today, so it should be available there now. For those that don't know about Feedburner, it allows you to get a much better idea of how many people are using your feed and where they are finding it. I highly recommend it. The hard part is getting it so that your brand URL redirects through Feedburner so that you can promote your brand URL in the event that someday you ever leave Feedburner.

4:45am... baby crying 5:00am... wife's alarm goes off 6:30am... scrapping ice off my window in San Diego, WTF 7:30am... still hanging out in an hour long traffic jam It started out pretty rough today I have to admit...lol. So I thought I would lose myself in the SEO world today to take my mind off how tired I am. Here are some of the things I found along the way: More on sub domains versus folders and how it effects SEO .

Matt Cutts has recently come out with a new video on ALT tags . It's pretty basic but there are some important takeaways. ALT tags help Google understand what your image is. Additionally, file names and titles also convey information to Google. This information is used not only for Google image search, which is very popular, but now with the implementation of universal search, it's possible to capture front page real estate on the SERPs with your images. Therefore,

Well our San Diego Chargers found a way to win in Tennessee this Sunday coming back in classic style that featured a 2:00 minute drill for the tie and an LT run in OT for the win. It doesn't get any better than that, but it sure does frazzle your nerves...lol. I hope we get another shot at the Patriots in the playoffs :( Speaking of frazzled nerves, I was a little nervous Saturday night before singing for the first time ever at a bar with my band.

I was having a conversation with a client yesterday that I think bears repeating. The question my client had was, why was I recommending changing their 302 redirects to 301 redirects? A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect whereas a 302 redirect is a temporary redirect. My client had a number of pages that were being redirected within the site and had used 302 redirects to get the job done. Unfortunately for the client,