Every web page you visit returns a status code, to give the browser additional information and instructions. Search bots see these codes, and some of them can impact SEO. Here are a few of the big ones in a handy infographic “cheat sheet”:

[Infographic created by Dr. Pete and originally posted on SEOmoz; click to enlarge.]

Google today released an experimental version of Correlate, a data mining engine that enables people to find correlating search trends.

As the premier video search engine, online community, and powerful marketing tool; YouTube is far more than just a place to upload your videos. Here are some tips to make the most out of your YouTube posts.

An increasing number of savvy web engineers and graphic designers are using quirky custom 404 error pages to reel clients back in. Though users will curse the error page regardless, site owners can still optimize that page to redirect visitors back into relevant content.

Page load time, or the time it takes for all elements of a webpage to fully load in a browser, always seems to surface in discussions about SEO. Namely, there is debate over whether relative page load time matters when it comes to SEO efforts.

An odd line item appeared on Google’s Q-10 form this week. As is turns out, the eyebrow-raising $500 million has been earmarked for a potential impending settlement with the Department of Justice.

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The SEO model has changed with Panda in that, rather than getting as many URLs as you can indexed, you now want only your highest-quality, most important URLs indexed.

Google doesn’t make a dime of profit from you, so you aren’t the customer. In fact, all those cool products are just bait to get your information in the Google ecosystem so your attention and eyeballs can be sold to Google’s advertisers.

Google has always had a work hard/play hard mentality (have you SEEN their offices?!) and on perhaps no other day of the year is this more apparent than April 1st.