Some mornings I wake up and find nothing but good email in my mailbox. Some mornings like today I wake up and find my inbox full of blog comment alerts which I have to moderate.
To all the blog spammers out there who think they are being really clever. You’re thick as planks.
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PageRank is Googles ranking system and one of the means Google has to rate pages is by the number & type of inbound links. Links to your site will increase your rank, however the amount it will increase it by depends on several factors: how highly rated the site is that is linking to you […]
Since its creation in 1994 the internet has expanded into a vast network of information. Over the years search engines have developed ways to organise this content bringing the user the web page that best fits their search.
Over the past few years a large percentage of businesses have developed some sort of online presence. […]
The Google rumours I posted about last time turned out to be nothing to do with RSS, but instead were referring to a new service called Google Base which apparently contains some kind of classifieds service that some people claimed was getting ebay a little jumpy. To be honest though, ebay is so big that […]
Google are drip-feeding us another way for site owners to get their content into Google, designed to complement site crawl and Google Sitemaps. My guess is an RSS submission service. Google are tinkering more and more with RSS - yesterday I saw syndicated news showing up on the right hand side of my Gmail account […]
In a further affirmation of how much interest the corporate world is paying to the subject of blogging, Google have launched Google Reader. It works much like My Yahoo! or Newsgator etc. It’s very easy to use and after having set it up I’m seriously considering moving completely over to it rather than filling my […]
Jim Boykin over at Jim’s Blog has a really good post on how SEO has changed over the years. In reality it exposes just how naive search engines were only a few years ago, and how algorithms have changed to work towards higher quality search results that are harder to manipulate with dodgy techniques. It […]
Talks are going on between the government and the BBC to determine just how much extra they can charge us for a TV license over the next few years. It’s all pretty standard stuff, improving digital services, more new programming etc. Standard until you find out that one of their plans is to build a […]
Every now and again someone contacts us with a single online page that they want some number one listings for. If we can’t do it we’ll say so, and in a case like this one on Jim Boykin’s blog I’d struggle not to snigger if I was replying to that request.
Wordtracker have put together a pdf on how the world’s top SEO’s would market vegetarian dog food. Ultimately it’s just a big pitch for Wordtracker services, but I don’t mind that because it’s one of the best tools on the market. Well worth a read.
http://www.wordtracker.com/keyword-research-guide.pdf