Posts Tagged ‘google’

Google Screwed up

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Have just been going about my normal business and decided to do a few Google searches while investigating something. Guess what, Google have screwed up.

Whenever you do a search on Google now every single result has a warning (more…)

Google Sitemaps And Subdomains.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Some time ago I used to run a forum host which allowed people to have their forum hosted on a subdomain.

This of course caused problems with regards to sitemaps as the sitemap had to be placed within the domain/subdomain that it was being used under. And Google treated subdomains as if they were different domain names.

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Google Misleading Adword Customers?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Recently I was playing around in Google Webmaster Tools and found that I was ranking first for a particular term. I decided to see how popular this term is so signed into my Google Adwords account and found something a little surprising. (more…)

Matt Cutts Promoting Security By Obscurity?

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Matt Cutts has recently posted an article about Fuzz Testing.

For those of you that are unaware fuzz testing is the art of testing a piece of software by giving it random input. The reason this can be effective is that it can trigger unforeseen bugs within an application. In fact Matt gives an example of tests carried out on UNIX software which found that a substantial percentage of softwares were vulnerable and the fuzz testing caused the application to crash. (more…)

The Search Engine Marketing Kit Review

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Back in July or so I decided to take the plunge and spend $147 on the 2nd edition of Sitepoint’s Search Engine Marketing Kit 2nd Edition.

After a couple of months wait (the 2nd edition was not scheduled for release until q3 but they did provide a PDF of the 1st edition while we were waiting for the actual 2nd edition) and a couple of delays I finally received the kit. (more…)

A Word Of Warning About Addon Domains

Monday, October 1st, 2007

This is going to be somewhat of a short post.

Recently I added a domain as an addon domain to another related domain in cPanel and came across a slight SEO problem which many will probably already be aware of. (more…)

The Importance Of DMOZ

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Many people question the importance of DMOZ. Lets go back a few years. Google used to hold DMOZ with great esteem, they used to collect the database on a regular basis and sites that were DMOZ listed generally achieved a better SERP’s placement (Search Engine Results Page).

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DMOZ SCAMMED ME

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Ok maybe they did not but I have started seeing posts from people claiming that they have.

The people who claim they have been or are being scammed by DMOZ get a letter claiming if they do not receive $x within a certain time period then their listing will be deleted from the DMOZ open directory. (more…)