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Category Archives: Search
You Know You’re Popular When
Today my personal site was pinged by Live Business Radio. As I do as a matter of course, I checked out the Live Business Radio web site and was disappointed to find that it’s nothing more than your average run … Continue reading
Google Alerts Getting Smarter
Google Alerts lets the user define keyword lists and phrases, which when found by Google while crawling and indexing web sites – will send a user a notification about that particular occurrence. Historically, it always appeared as though the technology … Continue reading
Changing The HTML Source Order Can Damage Search Engine Referrals
What follows is a quick digest of the impacts a web site owner might expect from reordering the HTML source on a web site, in particular what effects it can have on the search engine performance of a web site. … Continue reading
Posted in Search
Tagged click through rate, ctr, Search, search engine optimisation, seo
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Measuring The Impact Of Page Titles
Following on from my simple experiment regarding the performance of different Adsense themes, it seemed like as good a time as any to start another experiment surrounding the impact of web page titles on search engine performance. Out of the … Continue reading
Stopping Search Engines Indexing Website Maintenance Pages
There is no schedule for when a search engine will or won’t turn up on your web sites door step and starting indexing it; what happens when they turn up unannounced during scheduled maintenance? Under normal conditions, the search engine … Continue reading
WordPress Drop Technorati For Incoming Links
WordPress has a feature in it which shows activity surrounding your particular blog, named “Incoming Links”. For a long time, WordPress has been using the services of blog search engine and aggregator Technorati to deliver this feature. Using Technorati was … Continue reading
Posted in Search, Services
Tagged automattic, google, google blog search, pingomatic, technorati, wordpress
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Internet Scale
After launching ifdebug on the 3rd November, it’s only taken Googlebot and Yahoo! Slurp an amazing four days to crawl and index the site. Many moons ago, people would report having their sites online for literally months before being crawled … Continue reading