I was trying to explain to a client why ranking in google.co.uk is more important than the .com when your a uk ecomm site. I finally got them to add adcenter analytics… 1 nil to me !

tommorrow we have the first guest post !

DaveN

Or get some seo advice grrr … So I decide to upgrade my IE8 to version 2, note I call it IE8 and not  Internet explorer 8, so off I go to http://www.live.com actually you are going to see my searching habits when in consumer mode and not SEO mode :)

1) open IE8 beta with Live toolbar installed

2) search in toolbar for ie8 version 2

3)  look at first page results :

4) shake head… ( I still have my relevancy T-shirt .. hoping to wear for SMX London 

5) search Google in live toolbar ( lets the live team know I was unhappy grrr )

6) search google for  :

7) download IE8 Version 2 beta for Number 1 position in Google shakes head again ( hat tip to Google for been Relevant )

8) starts reading emails and open Firefox to start SEO Browsing

DaveN

I was recently In London with my family (it’s was my son Miles 8th Birthday) so we went to Hamleys and I met and old Big Brother contestant Carol ( my Wife Becky has a funny story about this ).. ok so far NO issues, but my Son has a show n tell, on what they did over the summer, this is going to be in front of the Class and they get a PC and Big Screen so that all the pupils get to see…

So the 6 million dollar question is, should I let him Google it live, you see I had a falling out with the school over the fact that they wouldn’t use Live.com because “the jury’s still out on that one” ……
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=carol+big+brother

I think maybe this will change their mind !

DaveN

Do you worry about search engines not being able to crawl your site properly ? Does your site have a penalty ? Who’s linking to your site and are there any patterns in linkage occurring to the competitors website?

Well, the answer could be here:

Webmaster Tools

Much excitement has come from the Live Search Webmaster team in the last week as it prepared for the first major update to its webmaster tools since last November. The update includes many new features that will allow webmasters to glean more information about how Live Search is crawling and indexing sites. Available data on crawls and indexing will be much increased via the “crawl issues” feature set.

Microsoft is keen on securing its relationship with web publishers, so keen in fact the information webmaster live provides is bound to point you in the right direction in improving your website traffic.

Major factors that could seriously effect Live seeing your website are covered: 404 - not found errors, Blocked by Rep where URLS are listed that Live search has found but are being blocked from indexing. (robots.txt) Webmaster Center will report on URLS which are too long and should be shortened to avoid infinite loops in crawling. Content types can be monitored too, making sure that website pages are valid and in-turn can be indexed appropriately.

My personal favourite of the webmaster center update is how extensive the Back-link Data information is . Information about back-links is always welcome to the SEO. Reports are now easily generated on links to a website with the addition of filtering functionality where back-links can easily be seen from specific domains or sub-domains. Ideal for checking out competitors links too!

TLD back-link listing is equally extensive enabling checks on linkage received which is particularly useful with website localisation now very much in focus. The data set that webmaster center delivers is more than manageable with advanced export functions to excel and filtering that will avoid getting lost in the data itself when your doing offline analysis. This will make analysis of a website much easier with the added bonus of functionality to quickly filter results from two sub-domains or two sub folders. Such custom data can then easily be shared.

This is pretty damn Awesome, I have only been playing on it for a little while now but Live Mesh “I’m lovin it”,

The syncing of Laptops, Work PC’s and Home Computers, is soooo easy, at present it’s just me and Dan that are playing with it in the office, but I can see me wanting more and more staff on this.

My Favourite part of this is the News : I can quickly see what’s happening in my Folders and Dan or myself can leave comments about what changed.

You can see that from the screen shot below that I Added a new folder and then renamed the folder Bnet1.

I did this from my computer in the office using a normal browser, all I needed was my Live login and I’m on My Live desktop.

I then connected to my Laptop at home, grabbed a CSV and synchronized it to the Mesh,

I then went back to my desk

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Clicked the Bnet1 and Synchronised, Now if Dan was sharing Bnet1 he would have got that file too, now who ever edits that file the cloud will keep track, so if Dan deletes some sites from that csv dump, he can leave a quick note so I know what’s going on :)

at Present I only have a few devices connected but thats going to expand soon:

DaveN