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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 [...]

The Originators and Pioneers

The Originators and Pioneers

I was asked to Google the phrase “The Originators and Pioneers” this morning by Roll Deep’s Twitter. So I did. And I thought “this isn’t really the Search Engine Results Page that I thought it would be,” so I decided to change that. Because I can. I reckon I will now be the originator and [...]

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 [...]

Twitter is Over Capacity

After a few months of experimentation with Micro-Blogging – specifically the microblogging website, Twitter, I still havne’t reached any definitive conclusions regarding the usefulness of the medium. I have, however, reached one very important conclusion: Twitter is Over Capacity. It seems as though Twitter has become something of a victim of it’s own success: so [...]

BBC Spends Our Money Advertising Glastonbury on Google Adwords

BBC Spends Our Money Advertising Glastonbury on Google Adwords

I know what you’re going to think “Rob, you’re always hammering the BBC, I actually quite like them! Their coverage of Glastonbury is boss, for a start (sic)!” – so before we get in to this, I will come out and say that I enjoy much of the BBC’s coverage, to the point where I [...]

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 [...]

More Problems for Google with Feedburner - Stats Tanking for a Day Inexplicably?

More Problems for Google with Feedburner – Stats Tanking for a Day Inexplicably?

The transition of Feedburner into Google’s team of web services has not been without its hiccups – particularly if the frequent “this might not work” and “that might not work” announcements which have populated the My Feeds pages in recent months are anything to go by. There are also growing levels of discontent at the [...]

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! [...]

Underground Tunnels near Arthur's Seat

Underground Tunnels near Arthur’s Seat

Edinburgh is full of secrets – underground streets, vaults, Freemason’s headquarters and tunnels everywhere. You would think that Arthur’s Seat, being a big lump of solid rock, would be immune to the scheming architecture of old developments, but you’d be wrong. In addition to a tunnel clearly visible from Holyrood Park, there is also an [...]