Update: Google representatives responded to complaints of the Google News delay with the following explanation:

"The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack. As a result, for about 25 minutes yesterday, when some people searched Google News they saw a "We’re sorry" page before finding the articles they were looking for…

Update: June 23rd 2009 - The comments on this post have been fantastic. Be sure to read them to learn a lot. I also reworded some points to make them more clear. (Damn language is always getting in the way of my words! :-p ) Specifically, the 25 footer links is not a hard limit, it is merely a number for context. You can read more below.

Below are some of the new best practice methods we use at SEOmoz for our consulting work…

Once every 100 years, a technology is developed that changes the way that people view their world. Today, I am fortunate enough to be able to introduce one such technology. internet, please make way for Webfluence, the world’s first and only search engine by SEOs for SEOs.

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Background:
At SEOmoz, we have been trying to reverse engineer the search engines for years…

This is the second post of an ongoing blog series called How to Start an Internet Company That Will Be Noticed: A Framework. The series aims to use an online marketing perspective to create a framework for starting a successful internet company.

Starting a company is a lot like streaking. Coming up with the idea and brainstorming the execution is exciting but performing the action is difficult and rarely done well…

This post is a little different than what you might be used to. Instead of talking at you, I would like to talk with you. I would like to propose a blogging outline, not actually blog on the given subject (yet!).

First, allow me to explain myself. I have been under-utilizing my blogging privileges the last three months and I would like to try to make this up to all of you. I have made the same excuses that everyone makes…

Over the past year, Rand Fishkin has been working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization. Since he has been very busy doing other work lately, I decided to step in and pick up from where he left off. You can read more about this project here.

An Introduction to the Search Engines’ Tools for Webmasters

To encourage webmasters to create sites and content in accessible ways, each of the major search engines have built support and guidance-focused services…