Steve Irwin was v. popular in the UK and will be greatly missed – unfortunately I don’t think we in the UK will get a holiday out of it.

You will surely own a HUGE section of the search market with that outstanding buzzword Matt.

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Their content is not US-centric.

As a writer, as much as possible, I try to write for an international audience. I wish more people did the same.

Just back from two nights backpacking in your fine state’s Trinity Alps Wilderness – a fantastic place. Fires in the canyon over from us but our hike was splendid.

Am I stupid to almost have posted “5 and 9″ in your captcha box? Have you seen the hotcaptcha.com mashup? Clever…

Okay, Matt this is on and off topic. It’s on topic as why on earth would I be working on a holiday. The answer is the same reason I was up until 3am the other night. So you can nuke this post if you like but when Google is silent in response to questions and requests for information, where else do we turn? Honestly, there has to be better communication between Google and webmasters.

As I mentioned, last year our SERP’s when from page 1 to 700, 900, etc. for about a month. My best guess was it was a duplicate content filter as we had two domains with the same info for copyright purposes. As per your suggestions, we switched everything over to 301’s and the problem went away. We have no idea if that was the problem but it went away. Now the problem is back as of August 17th and the ONLY information we have is a warning from you in a video that sites which were penalized “might” be over-optimized. That’s pretty vague and pretty impossible to fix when you don’t know the real problem.

Today I found that our second domain with the 301’s is in the Supplemental Results. Could this be the problem? Frankly, it’s the only thing I can point to. I’ve done a reinclusion request but the silence from Google, as usual, is deafening!

We need some guidance out here Matt and while you’re up to your earlobes, it would be nice if somebody at Google should be communicating with webmasters.

KJ

Dean, it was sad to hear about Steve Irwin. Talk about a scary job.

Labor Day is an old fashion thing, as far as Googleplex is concerned. Guess you don’t have “real” workers there

Maybe we should consider a more modern approach to holidays. Something like: SEO Day!

Hapy SEO Day, Matt

Happy Labor day Matt! I was disappointed to see your Heels lose to the Scarlet Knights bud. Phones still exist? Unfortunately for me some of my clients still don’t get this email thing.

Enjoy your HPO!