Category: Misc

Just had an email from a client asking if google shopping is down? And yes it’s currently down in the uk showing: Some of the search options are temporarily unavailable. You can repeat the search with standard options, or try again later with all options. Here is a screen shots when searching for books.. Interesting google…

Wow.. digg has 404’d the old site for the new design.. Wow.. who has done that? Digg ranks (ranked) for so many search terms which it no longer will.. All of those outbound links are gone now too.. Here is an example: http://digg.com/news/story/Colourful_Adsense_hack_How_cool According to google digg has 14million pages (of course it has far more…

I’ve been running and playing with google’s adwords product listings for a while now and forever and a day I’ve been working on the google merchant shopping feed (froogle/base). Back in 2006 I got invited into to google to work with them on google base as I was emailing google base support at least 5 times a…

Link bait and money 2 of the dirtiest words for an seo heehehe .. Well virgin headed up by no other than Sir Richard Branson has began his assault on the UK banking sector taking over North Rock (bits of it) to become a “high street bank” A few weeks ago I got the invite to a “Mystery Event”…

Today google are celebrating the birthday of one of the most famous authors in the world. Roger Hargreaves is the creator, author and illustrator of children’s books Mr Men and Little miss. Like me you probably grow up with the Mr Men book.. I have a lot of respect for Roger Hargreaves for such a simple…

Seo blogs today and over the weekend have gone crazy with the NYT outting of J C Penny as google slapped on a penaly to their rankings.. Your be able to read it here if you haven’t already http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all I’m sat on the fence with this one as I could reports 1,000’s of sites per…

The power is facebook is shown in this example of why a man killed his partner after she changed her Facebook status from “married” to “single”. The story goes along the lines of the lady was an avid facebook user. A complete addict to conectting with people online and one can assume her local friends…

In the UK twitter is all over the news.. So i’m guessing I should post about it agian… See google uk trends here: Click here  Well yesterday I opened my 3rd twitter account for a new site launched 2 days… Add twitterfeed and we are away!!.. Great.. 5 mins ago or so a new…

Over the last 2 weeks i’ve been working a lot on paging in php. so… Pretty simple to get first last next and previous to work in php. Looking at resources on the web I haven’t seen many paging php example including rewriting url for the search enignes so thought i’d put some code up…