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Month: November 2007

  • Google hit by duplicate content penalty.

    I’ve just notice today that google has been hit by a duplicate content penalty and dropped in rankings… I’m lazy and wanted to log into google webmaster tool so I search on google for “sitemaps” (It used to be sitemaps before)… Anyway for the last few years google has been #1 for the search term…

  • Google sitelinks update.

    Noticed this morning that for one site I work on the google sitelinks have updated..  In this update google has picked a really odd page and also has applied text to the new a link to the page and not the link’s alt tag itself.. And yes its a image only link.. One other…

  • The twittering is back..

    Up until last week my twittering was running at about a post a month lol.. The bird was almost DEAD!  BUT Now she’s back.. And fighting FIT!   See widget / badge top right or join me twittering away: http://twitter.com/gabs Â

  • The longest title for a seo blog I’ve ever seen. – 358 words

    A seo blog called blackhatplant has by the look of it pinged technorati with what I assume a load of seo blog links as I can’t find a link (yet) ….. Anyway the title of this blog is massive…  Why do this? Well anyone loading up a blog’s dashboard e.g. on wordpress has a…

  • Amazon e-book – Kindle

    Kindle is a little computer which allows you to download books/blogs/newspaper from amazon at a cost… This could be a big thing and for us seo’s the most interesting thing would be to find out how to get your blog on the list.. The telegraph mentions you can only download book from amazon ONLY soÂ…

  • “Dictionary” returns non relevant?

    I’ve just been playing with good old google suggest to apply the same sort of suggestion box to a site I work on… Anyway i’ve typed a random letter “d” and up came the suggestion “Dictionary”… Clicked it and got taken to the Dictionary serps… Fine.. Serps look good with a ad for ig at…

  • New adsense ads CTR changes.

    On the 15th November 2007 google change the format of the adsense ads.. Loads of reports hit blogs and forum with people worried about the fact that clicks will go down! What changed? Well basically you can now only click on the title of the ad OR the url if its displayed… I think its…

  • UK Doodle4google winner

     So here it is.. Google new hand made logo live on google.co.uk   Pretty cool 🙂  The information on the doodle page hasn’t been updated but i’m sure it will be soon 🙂 Well done to the winning doodle called “This or This?” by Claire Rammelkamp, Doodle 4 Google winner http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/

  • Beer is what you need

    Yep.. Its that time again.. A load of seo’s in a pub… Tomorrow night is londonseo’s pissup meeting in a great little swedish pub in central.. I going to be about from around 6pm so come and say hello! … All the info is here: http://londonseo.org/blog/smx-london-2007-party-venue-confirmed.html

  • Yahoo Pricing Discounts launch in the UK

    Today yahoo is now in the UK using a similar system to google regarding google’s “smart pricing” … From today, 15th November, advertisers in the UK can benefit from discounted clicks for better quality traffic Cool discounted clicks … One big problem with this.. As yahoo hasn’t launched YPN in the uk then this is…