Category Archives: SEO

PageRank Distribution and Navigation Systems

January 22, 2010 – 2:27 pm

Ok, this post is aimed at SEOs rather than a general audience, and is something I’ve been mulling over for quite some time without getting round to posting about it. I got the nudge to finally do so from a post on Search Engine Land – PageRank Sculpting Leaves NoFollowed Tags Behind . In that [...]

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Google site command oddities

January 2, 2010 – 3:03 pm

For some time I’ve been noticing irregularities in the results of the information that Google provides through the various commands and through the Webmaster Tools facility. Of course we all know the link command has been hopelessly broken for many years and frankly I don’t know why it’s still there, but the site command was [...]

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Constant change needs constant rethinks

December 9, 2009 – 5:36 pm

The last few months have been a whirl of business development, networking, new clients and juggling time constraints – not to mention trying to keep up with Google’s ever-changing activities.  So maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise to read my own main website and find loads of things that I need to rewrite and [...]

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Webmaster Tools drops the pixie dust

October 16, 2009 – 12:41 am

In the last few days there have been some additions and one removal from Webmaster Tools. The removal is in some ways the more interesting for what it might signal for the future – Pagerank is no longer being mentioned. Now it was never much of a feature – they told you if you had [...]

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Greatest wastes of time in SEO #2 – superfluous meta-tags

September 26, 2009 – 1:53 pm

To contnue the theme of the first “wastes of time” post, here’s some more activities that still get thousands of pointless column-inches in SEO forums and people still spend countless hours on. Meta-tags are a prime source of mis-information simply because you can pretty much create anything you like and claim it’s useful. Some of [...]

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Webmaster Tools – new feature lets you exclude parameters

September 17, 2009 – 12:51 pm

Last night while going over some clients’ accounts in Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools I noticed a new feature which hadn’t been there a few days ago. Under Site configuration / Settings there is now a section called Parameter Handling where you can set whether or not Google should ignore any of the parameters that [...]

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