A minor yet useful footnote from a Vanessa Fox (current but soon to be x-Google Webmaster Central) post about buffy: http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/2007/06/06/buffy-in-duplicate/ The question I got most often after the session was about the supplemental index. Does having duplicate content cause...
Checking the UK indexing of a website on Tuesday 6th June I discovered the site, to my shock, had no pages indexed in: pages from the UK. So a little investigating was called for, and woe and behold my site...
You'd have had to have your head truly stuck in the sand not to notice the news about Google Universal Search, the new multiple content search engine results page from Google, where news, video and just about anything get factored...
New search technologies could see common problems consigned to the past, according to Business Standard. Synonymy - using different words for the same object, in addition to Polysemy - when a word has multiple meanings, cause many problems for search...
We just won "Best Search Engine Optimisation" at the Travolution Awards 2007, the UK travel industry’s most prestigious award for top innovators in online travel.
As a Valentines treat Google Webmaster Central is now out of Beta. I got the announcement live at SES London. Recently they added the 'links' feature which is really cool, it crashes on big sites though, so maybe some sort...
Yesss....Thankyou....Google have released an awesome new link reporting tool, for ages webmasters and fellow link specialists have requested more data than we get back when using the Google link: command, and finally we can do it for sites we can...
What do DirectGov and Wikipedia have in common? Outbound Links - each website is an authorative hub and represents different sides of the same coin in regards to the theory of how outbound links from authorative hubs should be handled....
Thanks to Ian Dunmore and Dan Champion for inviting me to speak at their Public Sector Forums event in Birmingham. I was given the task of explaining how the Internet really works, and what the public sector could be doing...
Firstly there's the issue of semantics - accessibility vs accessibility, I think if you leave basic optimisation out of your strategy you shouldn't be able say your websites accessible, becuase most people wont know it is there. Next while there...
