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Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Getting the latest data through Adsense

Its ridiculous how often some of us track our adsense earnings – really, logging in once a day should be enough. But Checking The Stats can become addictive – just one more update, to watch the numbers increase some more… It doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t change the total at the end of the month, [...]

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Dave Pasternack SEO Competition

Finally, a Dave Pasternack entry worth supporting! (Darn, dude – I am annoyed I didn’t think of that myself!)

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Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Google getting cleverer on local search

Google is getting cleverer at picking locations out of queries

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Saturday, February 10th, 2007

The public doesn’t know what SEO is

Danny, in his momentous and excellent decription for Jason Calcanis of why SEO isnot what he thinks it is, mentions that the public still doesn’t understand SEO. He’s right, and I don’t see it changing soon.

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Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Google Local arrives in .au

Google Local is now available in Australia.

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Friday, February 9th, 2007

Accessability, Usability or Aesthetics – Choose?

James Edwards dropped a great quote about how to draw the line between priorities of accessability, usabiltiy and aesthetics.

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Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Page Load Delays Affecting Crawl Rate? (and fake referral)

OK, I’ll play too – Dave asked for links to Matt’s blog, using the .co.uk variant. I thought I would link to a fake of Matt’s discussion of Page Loading delays not affecting rankings. This topic concerns me, in a negative way – I’m of the school that, short of a page failing to load, [...]

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

SEO Blogs Worth Reading

Rand recently ranked 50 SEO Blogs and I thought a nice comparison would be a whys-and-wherefores of the SEO blogs I read. I’m not going to directly ‘rank’ , I don’t think, instead I will group them in order of importance to me The majors, or A-list SEO blogs. These are the guys who are [...]

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Monday, July 31st, 2006

Some pointers on making webpages more accessable

I’ve been noticing some common practices across sites which are reducing the general accessability of the webpages served. Below is a list I have been making that might be useful to you in making your pages more accessable. On Using Forms Required fields are often marked with a little star, or asterisk. JAWS (one of [...]

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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

New MSN meta tag

MSN has graciously given us a new way to stop the ODP messing with out listings. They have supplied to two meta tags to instruct the engine not to use an ODP title for a result listing. The ODP is an open source project to list websites by topic. As it is a volunteer project [...]

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