Preserving Bill Slawski's work
SEO by the Sea
Bill helped generations of SEOs, researchers, marketers, and search practitioners understand search patents, information retrieval, entities, PageRank, local search, and how search engines think.
This archive exists so that work remains discoverable even if the original website becomes unavailable.
Archive at a glance
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The archive keeps Bill's posts in Markdown with source URLs, dates, authorship, local media where available, and an audit trail for review.
1,290archived posts
1,525downloaded media files
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