I just got a text message from Doug, saying that Car Rentals has only gone a won the

Best Car Hire Website

Winner: CarRentals.co.uk
“CarRentals wins through its convenience and breadth of choice, combining user-friendliness and a low-fuss interface.”

It’s even more impressive when you look at the shortlist of companies that car rentals was up against.
short list for Best Car Hire Website

* NationalCar.co.uk
* Budget.co.uk
* CarRentals.co.uk
* HolidayAutos.co.uk

way to go Guys..

update : Car rentals has a news article on it

DaveN

HAHAHA this is so funny…

We started off talking about my newest venture fighters and how its a great new challenge for me personally being its a totally new market for us to penetrate

I broke shoemoney’s rib while I was sat down in a bar :), so how can a big softie like Shoe promote fighters.. good luck buddy and hey and maybe I will hit you for my new venture firewall script seeming how your blog used to get hacked all the time ;)

DaveN

Ok Matt was asked about Nofollow recently at the Domain RoundTable 2008, and If I’m reading this write, what Jaan posted

Matt says nofollow is a “very simple thing”. Nofollow link doesn’t flow page rank, doesn’t flow anchor text. Link level to say “I trust this link but I don’t trust this link”. You don’t want to flow page rank through them if you don’t trust them. Real business 3-4% of your links will be stale, don’t worry don’t need nofollow. If check them at some point, willing to vouch for them, at some point checked them for quality, then don’t need to worry about nofollow. If just a domain directory, use no follow.. it is a matter of how much due diligence you put in.”

so Matt is it ok to email webmasters and say,

Dear Webmaster,

recently Matt Cutts said on Links “Nofollow link doesn’t flow page rank, doesn’t flow anchor text. Link level to say “I trust this link but I don’t trust this link”

So what I would like to offer you is, you to look at my site “———-” and you make the judgement call, I would be willing to pay you either away for the link “link information” or even the the “link information with Nofollow”, Obviously I feel that a link on your site will help me either way, obviously this “link information with Nofollow” means you don’t trust the site, and I would by surprised if you took me up on my offer lol..
regards Dave

Of course you would get your arse banned if caught but at least you could prove that you did at least try and follow the rules ;)

DaveN

Ok one of my wifes favourite sayings at the moment is “busy idiots”, basically you are busy all the time but never focused enough to get things done. I have been looking at different open source solutions to stop 0 day expoilts, XSS hacks , and in fairness there are quite a few open source products out there, but the time and effort setting them up is just crazy, so I have decided to do a deal with Firewall Script. We are going to be including it in all our new wordpress client installs, I really like this product a lot, it’s easy to install and set up, so easy Dan almost did it here .. lol..

Anyway I want your points of view on it, the cost is just over £40, is it worth it? I mean have you ever tried to install modsecurity on a shared hosting platform?

Dave

well it was an XSS exploit in the community section of Barack Obama’s site the exploit redirected users to Hillary Clinton’s, I guess it could have been worse it could have just downloaded Malware.

How can such high profile sites keep getting hacked, come on web masters firewall up !!

DaveN

Ok I missed this question but also feel it worthy of a post :

Do generic domain keywords have an advantage in search engines ranking when the content is relevant / unique.

I ask this question as it was my rational in 1999 to register groups of generic domains in clusters rather than one off registrations, These registrations are dormant whilst I waited for broadband to become available throughout Europe and for the European online markets to evolve

It seem to me that the generic domains as a group would be more powerful when each can offer unique content with the ability to support each others SEO, with the ultimate purpose to support a new brand name without high long term marketing costs
The domains are TLD’s in a European language .com’s equivalent to the English terms insurance, motorcycleinsurance, carinsurance, houseinsurance, lifeinsurance, carsales, carprice, carmagazine…………………………………all initially registered to enter the online insurance markets

I know that the direct link to the generic url is only a small part of the SEO but is it still an advantage to have the generic keyword registration apart from possible type in traffic?
If it is your view that it is just a bunch of domains then so be it, I will then know that the direct link in linguistic search or the coming spoken search terms have moved on

OK, in my opinion for a marketing point of view you will get a boost in the search engines due to :

a) keyword in domain
b) keyword in url
c) keyword in backlink

The keyword in backlink still is golden, if I launch www.beer.co.uk or www.steel.co.uk, been a half decent SEO I should be able to get top 3 of those terms, BUT and this is a big but, if your in a highly competitive term area and you are good you can actually bind your brand to a search term which is golden as well.

take the term Insurance :

Or Car Insurance :

So what do the readers feel, keywords in the domain still a big bonus or just awesome to have?
DaveN

Dave TV asks the question “Are you Dave?” Personally, I think the mighty DaveN should step forward and announce himself as the one and only Dave.  Dave could already be considered the ultimate in home entertainment and is a match for any broadcast station. Perhaps he may start a TV station of his own?

yep looks like they are selling Juicy PR8 backlinks.. www.economist.com grab before they lose the juice

DaveN

So I create a few Free Wordpress Themes, let say 10 add a bit of copy say ..

Welcome to Free Wordpress Themes I decided to create a set of 10 Free Wordpress themes and the terms are. they are 100% free wordpress themes for personal or commercial use, You don’t have to pay me a penny in fact you don’t have to pay anyone a penny. they are totally ready to use with Wordpress 2.5. Just install and go! ….

I think I got the fact that they where free, so the foot links should be good, well I could always included a license in the download and edit the rss output and pingback etc ;)

but free wordpress themes is quite a competitive term I guess, unless I PPC

until it ranks for that term then just keep changing the footer links ..

so for should I build 10 kick arse awesome and Free Wordpress templates ? or would Google just fuck me over :(

DaveN

George Maxwell is a company that sells chesterfield sofas, and I guess his SEO is http://www.munki-boy.co.uk/index.html, so why did they register this domain

Domain name: DISTINCTIVE-CHESTERFIELDS.COM

Registrant:
George Maxwell UK Ltd
6 Ashley Court
Hale, Cheshire WA15 9PD
GB

Now if I found out that they had bought some links to a site we designed, that also sells chesterfield sofas, then that might really piss me off..

DaveN