A fantastical Sigmund Freud story…
Guitar, lead vocals: Craig Hordlow
Drums & vocals: Aaron Xavier
Bass & vocals: Ryan Hailey
Music & lyrics by Craig Hordlow (with assistance by Mike Kopp)
Verse 1
Hookers and cocaine,
Hookers and cocaine,
Hookers …
A Good Poem
A good poemcaptures the essenceof something, or of everything, in the fewest words possible. Truth does not needto sing, campaign,…
Lightning Bugs
You can tell a true lover by the gifts they give. When you only get them on occasions, dutifully,when millions…
The Al Franken Song
Guitar, lead vocals: Craig Hordlow
Drums & vocals: Aaron Xavier
Bass & vocals: Ryan Hailey
Music & lyrics by Craig Hordlow
Verse 1
Now Al Franken is standing next to you at the urinal, what will you do?
You’d like …
A Good Poem
A good poem
captures the essence
of something, or of everything,
in the fewest words possible.
Truth does not need
to sing, campaign, or serenade;
it might take a lifetime to figure out,
but only a sentence to translate.
Craig
The Bottom
The Bottom
I’ve been to the bottom and back.
Sometimes I leave because they kick me out,
other times I get enough sense to leave on my own,
but mostly I can’t remember why or how I left.
Usually I
Lightning Bugs
You can tell a true lover by the gifts they give.
When you only get them on occasions,
dutifully,
when millions of people probably got the same thing,
Love is coerced.
The true lover finds you gifts
randomly, accidentally;
the
Craig’s Ten Motives of Search
I began this list in 2006 (as Chief Search Strategist at Red Bricks Media), and presented it at numerous conferences (such as the 2009 O’Reilly Web 2.0). I also presented this at two Adobe MAX’s, Pubcon, Search Engine …
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 4, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Google Merchant Center Mass Product Page Unavailable Notices Last Night?
Google Merchant Center may have a bug in its automated validation of products and landing pages. Last night, some Google Ads merchants received disapproval notices for “Product page unavailable” even though the product page was indeed available.…
Bing Tests Larger Favicons For Top Sponsored Ads
Microsoft Bing is testing using a larger favicon format for sponsored ads in the top position. The favicon is about 33% bigger in the top sponsored ad position than in an organic or lower sponsored ad position.…
Microsoft: Bing Webmaster Tools AI Reporting To Gain New Features Soon
Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed on LinkedIn last night that more features are coming sooner rather than later around Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance reporting and AI reporting.…
June 2026 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the monthly Google webmaster report – the June 2026 edition – where I cover all the larger SEO and webmaster related Google Search news that you may want to catch up on over the past week. Yes, we …
Merchant Center Expands Attribute Rules To Automatically Found Products
Google has expanded the attribute rules feature in Google Merchant Center to work for automatically found products. Before, attribute rules only worked for products added through your merchant feeds, but not it works for products Google finds by itself and …
Warning: Google Ads Phishing Attack For Google Accounts
It is not that uncommon, unfortunately, to see Google Ads that are designed to steal your login credentials for various platforms, including your Google account. Now, when you search for “my business,” which is how many businesses login to their …
Keyword strategy in SEO: What it is & how to create one
A keyword strategy defines the user queries you want to appear for and how you‘ll target them.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web……
Google Search Console adds AI performance reports and blocking controls
Google is rolling out an AI performance report and a toggle to block content from AI responses in Search Console. Here‘s what it means for your visibility.…
Google adds a dedicated Agentic Browsing category to Lighthouse
Google Lighthouse now audits how ready your site is for AI agents. Here‘s what it means for visibility.…
Only 22% of marketers have fully integrated AI search and SEO. They’re pulling ahead. [Study]
AI search is the new SEO for most marketers. But their workflows haven‘t caught up yet. Survey of 481 marketers.…
Social media SEO: How to show in search, social, and AI
Social media SEO involves improving your social presence to appear across multiple search surfaces.…
Google Hotel Ads Drops Several Bid Adjustments – A Bug?
Google Hotel Ads may have dropped several bid adjustments, or maybe it is a bug. Bid adjustments such as day of the week check-in, advanced purchase, check-in date, length of stay and maybe some others are no longer showing up …
Yahoo Scout Slighted By Microsoft Scout? And More on Microsoft Web IQ.
Microsoft held its Microsoft Build event and announced Web IQ, a search engine platform for AI-agents and so many other AI enhancements. But what gave me a double-take was Microsoft Scout. I mean, didn’t Yahoo just announce Yahoo Scout in …
ChatGPT Multi-Advertiser Placements & Ads Manager Updates
OpenAI sent out an email to advertisers announcing some new ad unit tests, specifically multi-advertiser placements in ChatGPT. OpenAI also announced new updates to the ChatGPT Ads Manager to help advertisers manage their ads and control targeting.…
Google Adding More Link Cards To AI Responses
Google may be adding more link cards to the sidebar of the Google AI responses. Specifically, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews are testing showing more citation/link cards on the side of the AI response.…
