This Day in SEO

1997 October, 15th
Excite Launches Business & Investing Channel - Through a partnership with Intuit, Excite announced the release of its Business & Investing channel on this day. The site called "Excite Business & Investing by Quicken.com" was released soon after Excite and Intuit entered a 7-year agreement. The goal of the channel was to deliver "broad-based services to everyone from the common working person who wonders how she'll afford car payments to the multi-millionaire with a large portfolio to invest".
This Day in SEO

SEO moves so incredibly fast; it’s easy to forget just how young it is. I’m not even thirty 1 and I’m older than the oldest website. Think about that for a second.

I set out to research the history, evolution and critical milestones of SEO in part just to see what I’ve missed. Although it’s been my job to know SEO from front-to-back over the past seven years, it’s impossible to catch it all. Suffice it to say, from over 150 hours of research and more than 500 events cataloged across 366 days 2, I’ve learned A LOT. Hopefully you can take something away from this research as well. Every day a new event will be posted with a link to more information about it.

The types of historical SEO events include:

  • Search engine launches and key events
  • Important SEO acquisitions
  • SEO patents
  • Famous Google Bombs
  • Major events in internet history
  • Standard-setting legal cases in SEO
  • Search engine algorithm updates
  • High-profile search engine penalties

There are too many websites I used for this research to mention them all, but here are the ones I certainly couldn’t have pulled this off without:

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  1. Ugh. I’m really freaking close though.↩

  2. can’t forget leap year↩