I see recently that Sphinn has decided to take a stricter line on the use of nofollow. Links to submitted articles will be nofollow until they go hot. Sphinn are the latest, but they’re far from the only site to abuse nofollow. Like many sites they are trying to use nofollow to massage search engine [...]
The internet is where I live, and like any resident I know the odd bus routes, the fact that it’s better to change at Warren Street rather than Goodge Street on the subway, that you can take a shortcut down that side road to save ten minutes on the journey.
If you read this blog you’re [...]
My piece for Search Engine Journal’s guest blogging competition got published today, which was a nice surprise (particularly as I didn’t notice until I saw that it had been submitted to Sphinn!). I’m hoping that it’ll get a good response.
I notice that SEJ is not adding the linkback byline to the competition entries that they’d [...]
If you move a page on a website to a different address it can have an impact both on your search engine ranking and on your site’s overall usability and accessibility. I talked a while ago about the importance of using custom error pages on a site and discussed specifically the custom “404 page not [...]
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a huge business these days, with consultancy firms, websites and software all dedicated to offering advice on how to improve a site’s ranking on Google and other search engines. And certainly it’s important, the most attractive site in the world is largely pointless if nobody can ever find it on [...]
One of the advantages of using ASP.NET for web development and design is its template pages. Basically you use a single template page for a website and then add content pages which first load the overall template and then incorporate their own content to render a single web page. This is a very useful and [...]
