Category Archives: SEO

Web site optimisation v SEO

March 10, 2008 – 8:52 pm

There seems to be a lot of confusion in the minds of many webmasters, both new and experienced, about what SEO actually is and what tasks it is useful to spend time on. You see forum questions asking ‘should I worry about code validity’ (I’ll return to that one in another posting soon), ‘should I [...]

By bill | Also posted in Useability, Web Design | Comments (0)

The New BBC homepage

March 2, 2008 – 10:51 pm

Some of you will by now have seen the new BBC home page with its movable and customisable sections which can be tailored to your preferences. Fiddleability rules! When I first looked at the beta version I wasn’t convinced; it looked a bit “play-school” and some of the option weren’t too well thought out. But [...]

By bill | Also posted in Google, Yahoo | Comments (0)

When getting hacked hits your rankings

February 24, 2008 – 2:54 pm

Earlier this year I wrote about the rankings that this blog had enjoyed dropping substantially despite the main site holding on to its positions. Yesterday I discovered a possible cause. A correspondent on one of my other blogs notified me that his anti-virus program had alerted him to an attempted trojan link when he visited [...]

By bill | Also posted in Google, Wordpress | Comments (1)

What does the world do when Google goes down?

February 9, 2008 – 1:33 pm

Interesting; midday on Saturday (UK time) and Google is down. A tracert command runs fine on both the .co.uk and .com addresses but the wewbsite doesn’t respond. Not only that but sites that I know run Google Analytics are slow to load, presumably because the analytics calls aren’t responding. My first thought was to look [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo – the implications

February 4, 2008 – 11:49 pm

So the much speculated bid has finally happened. Will they say yes? If they do what will the search industry look like in a years time. Recent figures on search market share in the USA suggest that Yahoo may be losing ground and MSN/Live gaining, though there seems little suggestion of it in the UK. [...]

By bill | Also posted in Google, Microsoft, Yahoo | Comments (0)

Just how temporary are blog rankings?

January 30, 2008 – 2:15 pm

I noticed a curious phenomena in my Google rankings this week. While my general rankings based on the main site are doing well and mostly improving, all the terms that were ranking via this blog have dropped out of sight. Now I haven’t been blogging as much recently due to other committments so now I’m [...]

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