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These are the top 10 search engines driving traffic to this blog since January 2008 until today. Hey! Maybe I had better submit my site to more search engines LOL? (more…)

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....

The internationals may be behind us, but we have now embarked on a brand new club team version of Our XBox Friday League. And, if that were not earth shattering enough, your humble blogger has other big news to report. 08 is history!. We are now playing on Fifa 09 for the X Box. Although it has to be said, some have found the adjustment a little easier than others. (more…)

After creating a very basic guide to SEO, Google has also provided more assistance to bloggers this time in the shape of a best practice / guidelines for bloggers – a sort of blogger’s beginner guide to SEO/Google. (more…)

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100% SEO Geek Stuff – Google Pagerank

This is one of my ‘thought experiments’, but one I’ve been testing for ages LOL, and on a number of sites and it does seem to work, for me. I’d like feedback on from seo geeks – you know who you are

How do you identify the strongest pages on your site, in terms of real Google PR as measured by Google, or link equity (do they differ?), using no tools or API, and only Google? Can you observe and measure real pr as it happens?

Surely you would need to leave Google to rank pages with nothing more than Pagerank to observe such a ‘force’? So, can you do such thing? Perhaps. (more…)

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Is Google Toolbar gone? (UPDATE – Well, no, not at the moment). Recently, Google removed the Pagerank toolbar data from their toolbar promotion…..leaving many to think perhaps the end was afoot for visible toolbar Pagerank. Not Green, Not Grey. Not white. Gone. (more…)

Search Engine Optimisation – What Not To Do

So Google has now released a search engine optimisation starter guide for webmasters, which they use internally:

Although this guide won’t tell you any secrets that’ll automatically rank your site first for queries in Google (sorry!), following the best practices outlined below will make it easier for search engines to both crawl and index your content. Google

Still worth a read even if it is fairly basic, generally accepted (in the industry) best practice search engine optimisation for your site.

Here’s a list of what Google tells you to avoid in the document; (more…)

Another test ‘result’ – Do links high in code matter more than links at the bottom of a page (as Google reads it)?

Background

There’s been a lot of complaining from webmasters about Google’s recent SERPS update, which saw a lot of webmasters flock to forums to complain about ‘poor quality’ sites ranking after the bug ridden update (confirmed by Google). (more…)

I thought I would share the results of another simple test I did to see how Google treats internal links.

What does Google count, when it finds two links on the same page going to the same internal destination page.

I surmised:

1. Google might count one link, the first it finds as it indexes a page
2. Google might count them all (I think unlikely)
3. Google might count perhaps 55 characters of ALL of the available links (could be useful)

OK – From this test, and the results on this site anyways, testing links internal to this site, it seems Google only counted the first link when it came to ranking the target page. (more…)

* Update by Shaun; So, FIFA 09 is out and its on the office xbox. With that, and the fact I’m romping the current Pro Evolution soccer league for my second title, Martin and the boys thinks its time for a change to another game I am not the dominant force in.

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Here we have the overview of this Fridays matches played on  the X Box Friday Football League. However, it has to be said, it was a pretty slow  week. Although it did still throw up one or two surprises. (more…)

Google recently gave more assistance to webmasters, if you can call it that, concerning url rewriting, or changing dynamic variable filled URL to more search engine friendly, more human readable static looking URLS (OK, URI). (more…)