Microsoft and Yahoo! have made a landmark deal today, which will effect the SEO industry in a few key ways. I won’t go into massive amounts of detail as I’m sure you’ve already consumed the facts elsewhere, but there’s a few things that need to be discussed.
Author Archives: Ben
Google Pulling Random Dates Into SERPs
Late last night I tweeted out the following, and I wondered if anyone knows the rules by which Google pulls this info from a page:
Seeing some really weird use of dates in google snippets lately. Anyone have insight into the parsing algo being used?
10 Reasons Nobody Uses Your Web App
So you built and launched your app, but so far you only have a handful of signups. The big problem though is that one of those is your mother and the others are your close friends and colleagues – and not one of them is paying a dime. So where did it all go wrong?
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Google Adding Links Into Suggest?
I’m not sure if this is new or not, but Google have apparently started adding links directly into the Google Suggest drop-down box (right). You won’t see this on a Google UK search, but switch over to google.com and you should get something similar.
As you’d expect, the link is what would appear in position #1 of the query suggestion at the top of the pile but I do wonder how this affects rank tracking tools that rely on Google’s ranking data in referrer strings.
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I’m Back
After a blogging hiatus of well over 2 years, I’ve decided to return to the fold once more.
In my last post, way back in Feb 2007, I basically gave myself 3 options for the stagnant pool of blog filth which resided on this URL:
- Close the site forever
- Create more of a portfolio type site, with a blog at a new URL (possibly a subdir)
- Simply start a new blog here