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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Google Trends for Websites not so scary…
Everyone is talking about the new Google Trends for websites - Graywolf has a piece on it, as does Aaron (where this post started as a comment. Hi Aaron! Look! Blogging!). But I think its important to note that, while people are complaining that this is giving away the farm, its not as bad […]
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Nofollow Followon
I read Andy Beal’s Lowering The Google Red Flag article this morning, and it contains what I expected to see soon - skilled internet publishers challenging Google’s “ownership” of the web by blocking them…
Andy has been badly hit by page rank reductions because he writes paid reviews with followed links. We aren’t talking 5 minute crappy reviews here, Andy tells us he puts hours of work into each review and is very discriminating in what reviews he takes on. One would have thought he would be the ideal subject for
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
This is the way the Internet died
I remember the internet. It was really cool - so many resources, all in front of you on your computer, and things called ’search engines’ that had big lists of *everything* on the ‘net (because we affectionately called it “the ‘net”) and you could go to a search engine website and type in something you […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Using Linkedin to keep up with people
I don’t know about you, but I am a slacker about keeping up with people. I regularly get phone calls from people who have gotten my name as a contact and want to know if I know anyone with X skills who is available.
Generally, I have no idea, sadly, because I have spent the last […]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
Nerdier than Thou
It happened again! I was reading Kim Krause Berg’s latest blog entry on Cre8pc “Celebrating Sexy Women Nerds” and saw the results of her Nerd Test.
Last time I did one of these I out-geeked a whole bunch of guys who are really, really geeky (It was being able to quote Heinlein! I swear!) but I […]
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Make a Link
Its nice to rank well in all the engines, but Ask is one of the engines that matters least to me, as it seems to push very little traffic. (Poor Ask )
Lets see if we can help - click here to see lots of results about ME!
OK, there’s an ulterior motive.
Cristian Mezei tells us […]
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Another way out of supplemental hell?
Most of the forums have some discussion of supplemental issues going on at any given time. Lots of people seem confused by what it means and what they can do about it.
Here’s my take on it:
A page in the supplemental index hasn’t got a penalty, it hasn’t been ‘filtered’, its just that Google doesn’t think […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Mapping the Mal Web
McAfee SiteAdvisor recently published a study into malware production by tld. Its an interesting little artifact - it shows a pretty strong correlation between a tld that can be registered by anyone and the production of malware (for broad definitions of “malware”).
.info comes in at a staggering 73% of user registrations result in some form […]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Blanks in Google searches
I just spotted an interesting Google search.
Google searches full of spaces are interpreted as packed together.
For instance running a search for
laundrette c h a t s w o o d
returns exactly the same result as
laundrette chatswood
but, pulling the spaces out entirely changes it entirely -
laundrettechatswood
returns no results at all (unsurprisingly)
Google’s algorithm is able to account […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
About PageRank
The common claim by the advanced SEO is that the average webmaster pays too much attention to PageRank.
PageRank is the ’score’ used by Google as one of its measures of the importance of a page, and plays a role in determining the ranking of a page in every SERP. However, its a tiny role - […]