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Google’s 950 Penalty

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New Semantic Elements Being Considered for HTML 5

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GOV & EDU Links Are Dead! Long Live GOV & EDU Links!

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Google’s Binary Search May Propel New Security, Copyright & SEO Initiatives

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Create a Modal Dialog Using CSS and Javascript

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Posts written by Jon Henshaw

Google’s 950 Penalty
By Jon Henshaw

January, 2007

Google’s 950 Penalty

There’s a lot of buzz going on about Google’s 950 Penalty. The problem webmasters are having has been called the 950 penalty, because pages that have traditionally performed well in the SERPs are being shifted from the top-ten position to the nine-hundredth position. The key thing with this so called penalty is that it’s only […]


New Semantic Elements Being Considered for HTML 5
By Jon Henshaw

January, 2007

New Semantic Elements Being Considered for HTML 5

Roger Johansson posted an interesting entry on his site entitled, “Elements and Attributes in HTML 5.” In his entry he lists some new elements that are being considered for inclusion in HTML 5 (the next major version of HTML). article A section of a page that consists of a composition that forms an independent part […]


GOV & EDU Links Are Dead! Long Live GOV & EDU Links!
By Jon Henshaw

September, 2006

GOV & EDU Links Are Dead! Long Live GOV & EDU Links!

For a long time, many search engine optimizers (SEOs) believed that links from government and education websites would help commercial sites perform better in search engine results pages (SERPs). However, that started to become a myth as many SEOs began to debunk it on their blogs and popular forums like WebmasterWorld.com and Search Engine Watch. […]


Google’s Binary Search May Propel New Security, Copyright & SEO Initiatives
By Jon Henshaw

July, 2006

Google’s Binary Search May Propel New Security, Copyright & SEO Initiatives

A recent PC World article, “Google’s Binary Search Helps Identify Malware“, shed light on a little known feature of Google’s search engine the ability to search binary files. Google is enabling security vendors like Forcepoint to detect websites that deliver malware to Internet users. In particular, they’re looking for websites that are hosting malware in […]


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By Jon Henshaw

March, 2006

Create a Modal Dialog Using CSS and Javascript

Back in my early programming days, before I switched over to web development, I spent most of my time writing software for Windows. I look back on that time with fond memories. 8-bit icons, OLE2, and no silly Start menus. With the recent Web 2.0 boom, many web developers have returned to their roots and […]