Site maintenance may well be made easier by using relative URLS and indeed transferring the domain is easier than if you absolute URLS too. Whilst the absolute URL method may take more time in terms of updating links on each page the reasons for its usage are strong. Google for one may well miss some [...]

If you missed it unlucky, if you want more insight into that day .. Jen Slegg wrote pretty much up to the minute before the session, SEO mfg, joeduck both covered the session, Lisa Barone did the best write up I have found by far  and Kevin Ryan did a follow up, so all in [...]

It’s not always that easy to manage a clients portfolio of sites. Especially if there are many people chopping and changing the collection of sites at the same time. I’m wondering just how much “Google Juice” is lost through temporary redirects or simply not directing old site pages to the new site ? Keep a [...]

A great many in the SEO community use Facebook. Personally,  I like to see what people within that community are doing. Many of us are constantly on the move meaning Facebook Mobile could well be an option. Many say that the future of search is mobile, given the option though, do many of us use [...]

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Twice now I have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with webmasters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this. So this is good news for SEO’s that haven’t fucked Matt over by publishing private convos. It will do one of 2 things….one it will make Matt much more wary [...]

Google Knol gets its debut. It’s about time Wikipedia had a competitor especially one that gives topic specific articles by leading experts. Monetisation looks key to the Knols too allowing authors to run ads with the articles and in addition high levels of prominence to the author. Such highlighting of authors is bound to get [...]