ComScore has released their US Search Rankings for September this morning. Google.com remains the market leader, with it’s properties dominating with a 57% market share. This equates to 5.7 Billion Core Searches for the month. The 57% for Google is a half percentage point up from last month. Yahoo! and Ask properties also saw an increase in market share, while Microsoft lost some ground. Yahoo! came in at 23.7% of total searches,...

And they will always matter. You see, for every person that says tool bar pagerank or alexa ranking doesn’t matter, there is somebody who says it does. And those people tell other people it matters and there are always new breeds of people coming in obsessed with pagerank or alexa. Many of us agree that it in fact pagerank and alexa doesn’t matter when trying to rank our websites. Much more important is the perceived authority...

About 3 months back, Myspace.com started to put their own version of link condoms on all external links using a redirect method. All links left in a comment would go through msplinks.com before hitting the destination site. A month ago, all profiles on Myspace.com were also converted to using the redirect method. Shortly after, bulletins were included too. This meant that not only was most of the SEO value gone from any Myspace link but...

(archived) MSN used to rank new pages very quickly, however, lately this is not the case. I know backlinks rule in MSN and it is filled with spam, yet one of my sites that has done 100k uniques organic visits this month from Google alone, has seen only 3 MSN hits. I suspect there is some type of problem going on indexing new sites, or their algorithm simply does not index new sites quickly anymore, which many people have suspected for some...