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How’s that for some search engine optimisation vanity?

Pure Vanity

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We've recently updated our comments policy and increased the number of comments a visitor has to make to get seo friendly links in comment signatures to reward long term readers and make it a bit harder for dofollow spammers ;) - I told you dofollow spamming wasn't a long term strategy....

We’ve nearly got 2000 subscribers on the blog. I was hoping if you’re recieving this via email, feedburner or just passing, you’d let me know any of the below; (more…)

Google says to do it using Robots txt.

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines. Google Webmaster Help

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I showed recently Google will use the next available Header, be it a H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 if your page title element is screwed. (more…)

Do you know how much time your staff are spending on Twitter? Join in with me as I optimise a member of my web design teams productivity, and even have a say what I greet him with in the morning. (more…)

Mike Massimino recently twittered; (more…)

I like finding Google’s limits. I ran a quick test to see if Google will use any Header Tag as a page title if for some reason it does not like the page title element you give it (as I thought it might). (more…)

We work with a lot of retailers and they might find this interesting. If a bill is approved to the next stage today, many online retailers might have to change the way the sell online in the UK. EEK. (more…)

I *&^%*£% hate Microsoft Internet Explorer. It’s probably the single longest pain in the backside I’ve encountered in nearly ten years making websites. Ask any website designer or developer – and browser compatibility issues are still an issue. I use Firefox and may well consider using Chrome when it arrives for the Apple Mac. (more…)

It’s been a long day writing out reports for clients. Taking a break (!) I opened my feedreader and was was curious to find a rising trend “nikki catsouras decapitated” on Google Trends – no idea who she was so I popped over to Google Trends to see what the fuss was about:

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