RIP AlltheWeb
I was sad to see that Yahoo have announced that AlltheWeb will cease to exist from April 4th and queries will be redirected to Yahoo. Of course it was inevitable given the fact that Yahoo itself is now...
View ArticleIE9 – are we looking at the new IE6?
This one’s webdev related rather than SEO, but then I’ve always been a web developer as well and I’ve always believed you can’t be a good SEO without being a good developer, and vice-versa. IE6 used to...
View ArticleShould you follow the SEO rockstars?
In the old days if you wanted to learn a subject you read a book on it. That doesn’t work with SEO because it’s a very fast-moving subject and by the time anyone writes a book about it and goes through...
View ArticleClouds, Trust and Security
Recently we’ve had two major issues with online networks. One was the large number of services that depend on Amazon’s cloud facilities, which went down for a number of days. The second was the Sony...
View ArticlePressing the wrong international buttons
A Tale of Edinburgh University Press and search engines This weekend I was doing some research for additional content for my Scottish Books site and had occasion to do a Google search for Edinburgh...
View ArticleLinks – are there any genuine link builders out there?
In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot about links. I’ll say straight away that getting them has never been a particular strength of mine – I’m more of a structural, technical and content SEO – but...
View ArticleSocial Networks and Search – will they just spoil each other?
Social is all over the place these days – even the mainstream media mentions it often, particularly at the moment with Facebook having just announced major changes at F8 and with Google pushing Google+...
View ArticleTechnology ideas in the real world – the human factor
I love gadgets, and I love new technology. You see something on Star Trek or one of the other sci-fi programmes and then a few years later you see it in the real world because the designers watch the...
View ArticleLinkspam – Common forms of link building that have gone toxic
As I’ve been predicting for a long time Google has finally upped the ante on poor quality link building and is starting to actively penalise those who participate in it. This has of course started an...
View ArticleDissecting a Typical Spam Letter
Like, I’m sure, many of you who own or run websites, I get a shedload of spam. Usually I filter it out before ever having to open it but just occasionally I read some to see what inane nonsense is...
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