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DaveN

 It’s little wonder the BBC keep scooping awards for their new site make over, especially with such catchy headlines:

We can now of course rest easy that the great tits of britain respond well to warming ;)

I just got this emailed to me and shot over to yahoo answers, not sure if the orginal screen is a fake or not as I can’t reproduce it … but the guy say’s it true..

when I went and did the same search i got the Normal Yahoo ads, I did notice thou when I kept refreshing the 1 - 10 of 159,170 kept jumping around … odd

DaveN

It’s not often I get so pissed off that I throw something, but I’m getting close…

I’m helping a very very small company with SEO, and we I ranked them top 10 for most of the keyword set But in the .com, they are an English company on a UK IP, but the Domain is a .com at a recent Search Conference one of the owners asked a Google Rep, about this issue and they said that’s easy sign up or get your SEO to sign up to Webmaster tools in Google and you can tell Google that your a UK based company..

so we did that flicked the flag to UK and it didn’t make a blind bit of difference, know I have the issue that the client beliefs that Google wouldn’t lie to him so it most be something I have done…

what do you do … me I just show the clients what happened when a Google Adwords Rep said they could do a better job than me, Google had the account for 5 months before the client came back due to falling conversions and rising costs.

What do you do when Google’s advice is just doesn’t help ?

DaveN

Wordpress Plugin Comments Referer

Basically this will add a session based Referer to your comments, we try to catch the first entry point, any improvements let me know.

Download the plugin here wp-refer

Unzip the file and upload into your plugins directory, then activate ..

Dave

I had this Plugin written in house because I was getting abuse on some of my early post’s .. it’s truly awesome when some one leaves a comments like “you sick f*ck how you do that to your cat” and “die f*cker” on this post shaven pussy lol..
2’s things

a) it’s not my cat I said that in the post so rtfa
b) wtf ..YOU where searching for shaven pussy what did you expect to see !!!

If you want the plugin leave a comment and I will get it uploaded later today

DaveN

Ok the first thing I always check is server headers, a common mistake is 302ing the home page to an internal page so here is the screen shot of what a server header should look like :

the next thing is Links and ratio of inbound to outbound links something like :

I can see that I have too many internal links, I still like the 100 links on a page rule, so that means I need to do some culling, most probably in my NAV .. any way externals links is next on my list. What is the web master allowing to be followed is normally a good indication if a site is selling links, if a high % of outbounds are a Nofollow and a few and clean links, IMO the clean links are either owned by the web master or are purchased .. Blog’s can be a little different you can see mine here :

that’s my Comments with NoFollow, and my posts Have clean links, I can also see MY V10 tracking script, My Flickr account and my Firewall Script here :

I can also see that I have a few Sphinn links due to the fact that I pull in their RSS, but again I’m happy that Danny and his Mods will keep that feed clean but it’s a good reminder that I’m linking externally !!

btw The Tool is Here

DaveN

Ok hands up all SEO’s who target only Google? Come on,,, Chances are the search marketing world is set to change, evolve if that’s that right terminology. Some believe that Google is likely to become the next “Microsoft.”

Which is your favourite search engine, or does it vary on a monthly basis? Do you have clients who ask for specific targetting in Live or Yahoo ?

Looks like Yahoo is rolling out technology to protect it’s search users if they click on a dubious website that hosts anything like spyware or spam. Past experiences tells us that such “helpful” additions often confuse the searcher and somewhat tarnish overall usability. Let’s just see if Yahoo can do any better than Google who introduced something similar back in 2006.

Browser exploits are of course nothing new and high risk sites will always be present on the net. However, there is nothing more irritating than some over enthusiastic guidance system that you have to by-pass to get to the website you need.

TLD’s and hosting, where would you host if you wanted prominence within serps in a certain geographic area,,,? Does it make a difference. Is it just microsoft that’s focused on localisation?

Sounds like an easy answer to this one.

Search engines must put weight on hosting location and im not just talking ip address.

Dan Horton SEO