Archive guide
Notice and Attribution
Rights and attribution guidance for the SEO by the Sea preservation archive.
This repository is a preservation archive of SEO by the Sea.
Bill Slawski’s writing helped many people understand search patents, information retrieval, PageRank, entities, local search, and the history of search engines. This archive exists to keep that work discoverable if the original website becomes unavailable.
Content Ownership
The archived posts, images, and other media remain the work of Bill Slawski and/or the appropriate rightsholders. This repository does not claim ownership of that material.
No new open-source license is granted for the archived writing or media by this repository. Please do not assume that content in this archive is free to reuse, republish, remix, or commercialize.
Source Attribution
The original source is SEO by the Sea.
Each archived post includes a source_url value in its front matter and the
reader-facing site links back to the original source URL when available.
Purpose
The purpose of this repository is preservation, attribution, and access. It is not intended to replace the original site, erase authorship, or create a new licensed edition of Bill’s work.
If you are a rightsholder and would like a correction, attribution update, or removal, please see the takedown request page.