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The Internet’s Biggest Problems Now Content Scraping and Pingback Spam

Its time for me to don my hat as Google’s #1 Lord of the Internet and allow you to know of the biggest threats facing the webmaster of 2010: content scraping, and pingback spam. The first issue, Content scraping, is increasingly frustrating our attempts to provide accurate unique content as, every good website we have [...]

Seriously Stores

Seriously, stores need to think about what they are doing when it comes to the online “space” these days. A lot of stores are seriously wanting when it comes to web promotion, relying on bumpf and huff and puff rather than the three central tenets of e-commerce mastery: a good product, solid website design and [...]

Does Google Notice When I Fix Spelling Errors?

I was just tinkering around with the Remix Submission buttons over at Remix.vg (I made the button massive because people weren’t able to see the small one that was there before!) and noticed a couple of spelling and grammatical errors that were probably floating around at the bottom of that page for a long old [...]

Race Calendar

Another month passed by since the public launch of another website we have made. This time it is running that we are looking to make a finer representation of on the internet, in the form of our glorious new running event listing website Race Calendar. You can find Race Calendar at the rather sensible URL [...]

Google Search Firefox Results Different From Internet Explorer

Google Search Firefox Results Different From Internet Explorer

Well, its been some time since I wrote anything with a webmaster hat on. That’s not because I haven’t been webmastering – far from it – it’s because I’ve been doing so much of it that the last thing I’ve wanted to do it write about it. However, something has cropped up time and again [...]

SEO Case Study: Clean to Go – Carpet, Upholstery and Oven Cleaning around Oxford, UK

As sometimes happens when you work online, particularly when you start letting slip that you spend time optimizing and ranking sites well in organic search engine results, this week a friend of mine asked for my opinion on a website. So here we have the opportunity to provide some good old free advice, promote a [...]

Twenga Expose ‘Black Hat SEO’ Tactics to Competitor, 24 Hour Trading… Oops!

I just filled out my first ever “Report Paid Links in our Index” report through Google’s excellent Webmaster Tools and, while I feel somewhat of a dirty snitch, at the same time, I’m absolutely sick of the amount of people who get in touch trying to buy links from us. When the company doing this [...]

You Can Get Google Ads Free… From Dell SMB (well you still have to spend!)

Remember that crazy old saga about how you can’t get Google ads for free? Well you can now, providing you purchase a piece of equipment from Dell Small and Medium Business (UK). The difference here? You might actually require some computer equipment for your business, and Dell will give you a voucher code for free [...]

Get The 24 Hour Trading News Feed!

Get The 24 Hour Trading News Feed!

Great News this week in terms of our development and ‘future proofing’ techniques has emerged, including the following hot topics that will see people like you enjoying content from people like us all around the world even more quickly, even more easily and, importantly, for years to come: We’ve Gone iPhone and iPod Touch Friendly! [...]

Hilarious - Our Kate Middleton Images Top Google!

Hilarious – Our Kate Middleton Images Top Google!

A few months ago, the reactionary British press (The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph to be precise) got hold of some really inconclusive pictures of Kate Middleton ‘allegedly’ talking on a mobile phone while driving. At some point, we talked here about those pictures, and said that they were, well, inconclusive. In any case, [...]