Google crawling of flash content "improved"
Google have recently announced that they have improved their algorithm
for crawling flash content[1] on websites.
I'd expect this would be a welcome change for many web developers,
but I'm going to hold off on the excitement for a few reasons.
FLASH AS A PAGE ELEMENT
I have always supported using flash as a page element, rather than as
the 'meat and potatoes' of a website. The reasoning...
Added: 2 Jul 08
The pagination issue
Here's one of my favourite duplicate content issues that pretty much
everybody gets wrong. It's the question of how you handle a paginated
set of pages, without causing duplicate content problems for yourself.
HERE'S THE BASIC PROBLEM
Imagine a product database site, it has 100 products in a particular
category, showing 20 per page. There are pagination links at the top
and bottom which lead...
Added: 24 Jun 08
Coding College interview: Why I do code
I was recently interviewed by Coding College, a New Zealand blog about
code, the web & PHP, about how I got started with PHP and some of the
early projects I worked on. Mostly, these were fun projects - I
started out coding music jukebox software and a gaming ladder website.
It's easy to enjoy...
Added: 25 May 08
seo.co.nz for sale
seo.co.nz is currently for sale. It's been quietly doing it's thing
for the last few years, and the owners (Intersect) are putting it on
the market, available to the highest bidder.
Of course, I considered making an offer.
NOT BUYING IT FOR TRAFFIC
However, I then got to thinking why I might...
Added: 23 May 08
Alternative domains not in Google
A customer has just brought to my attention a problem that hadn't
occured to me. It's to do with all those other domain names you own
and are 301ing to the main site.
PROBLEM:
You have www.domainname.com and it's appearing in Google searches for
"www.domainname.com" like it should.
You have...
Added: 5 May 08
PHP redirect function (301 / 302)
I'm often asked how to do 301 redirects in PHP. It's not hard, but
it's a pain having to remember the exact syntax every time. Here's a
little function I wrote for Jojo CMS for making redirects easy.
USAGE
Add one line of code whenever you need to do a redirect.
301 REDIRECTS...
...
Added: 30 Apr 08
Sending clients to Google
I heard an ad on the radio for Down Under Insurance. What peaked my
interest about this ad was that they didn't give the web address for
finding our more information - instead they asked you to Google for
"down under insurance[1]".
My first thoughts was that this was a bit silly. By sending the...
Added: 29 Apr 08
Change of contact details
This is just a quick announcement to say that some of my contact
details have changed.
We have moved home / office to Hobsonville, Auckland, meaning a new
address and telephone number.
UPDATED DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Office phone: +649 950 4133
Home phone: +649 950 4132
Mobile: +6421 811...
Added: 20 Apr 08
Yellow pages thinner than ever
Our new 2008 Yellow pages directories arrived this morning. We keep
these and the phone book on top of the fridge, and they never get
used. Bless the internet.
The old yellow pages was firmly wedged between the top of the fridge
and the bottom of the liquor cabinet - I had to give the books a...
Added: 8 Apr 08
Please login to comment
Recently I have noticed a trend on a number of blogs. It goes
something like this...
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Hmmm. Asking random visitors to register an account when they only
want to leave a one-off comment is a huge ask. Especially...
Added: 28 Mar 08
ROCK2WGTN Review
ROCK2WGTN - Wellington's Easter weekend rock concert - is over. I'm
sitting in a camping ground watching all the bogans pack up their
tents, and I thought this was as good a time as any to put my...
Added: 24 Mar 08
I got sitelinks
Google has benevolently given my blog sitelinks[1]. It's been a long
time coming, and it would be fair to say I'm pleased as punch about
the whole thing - I was wondering if it was ever going to...
Added: 11 Mar 08
Nofollowing internal links
I have just been reading an interesting article on Search Engine Land
about nofollowing internal links[1]. The author, Shari Thurow, argues
that web developers should not be nofollowing links to...
Added: 10 Mar 08
What do weight loss and SEO have in common?
I'm going through the process of losing some weight. It's been one of
those things which I have needed to do for 10 years or so, made
especially worse by the fact I work in front of a computer and...
Added: 3 Mar 08
Coding in paradise
I got bored with the daily grind last week, so I disappeared for a few
days with the kids to Hokianga in Northland New Zealand. However, I
had work to do, so I thought I would drag the laptop along...
Added: 26 Feb 08
Burned over $16
A client and I have just been burned by a combination of things that
happened. And the root of the cause was the whopping sum of $16.
It all started this morning when I get a txt from a client...
Added: 21 Feb 08
Passing the sniff test
Someone commented on here the other day saying Google employed 20,000
humans to manually review sites for spam.
I hadn't heard this number before, but it makes sense to me. There is
only so much...
Added: 11 Feb 08
Humour: spamming the API
I'm revamping the tags system in Jojo CMS[1] this weekend, as we need
a user interface that can scale well as more and more tags are added
to sites (potentially thousands of tags).
A simple list...
Added: 3 Feb 08
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!
I wasn't entirely prepared for this news[1] when I checked my RSS
reader this morning, but upon thinking about it, it does make sense.
Microsoft have made an offer to buy a big wollop of Yahoo!...
Added: 2 Feb 08
Webstock vs ROCK2WGTN
I had planned on going to Webstock this year - Wellington's big web
event of the year. Webstock[1] is featuring some pretty flash names in
the web industry - Molly Holzschlag, Sam Morgan, Jill...
Long tail SEO - A simplified how-to - 26 Jan 08Added: 29 Jan 08
Getting the most out of tags - 24 Jan 08
www or non-www - 19 Jan 08
Fixing crappy landing pages - illustrated - 18 Jan 08
Apologizing for not blogging enough - 10 Jan 08
SEO Review for PriceMe - 9 Jan 08
Make your customers laugh - 28 Dec 07
Can we please stop asking Matt his opinion on paid links? - 21 Dec 07
SmartyHost - Unresponsive, unprofessional - 2 Dec 07
Don't use Flash unless you have to - 24 Nov 07
Better crosslinking between articles - 24 Nov 07
Google in need of SEO - 23 Nov 07
Turning bad into good - 21 Nov 07
Movember - mid-way update - 19 Nov 07
Duplicating content to avoid duplicate content - 13 Nov 07
Ribbing your web developer in public - 12 Nov 07
Targeting your anchor text - 8 Nov 07
Movember - 1 Nov 07
Catering for blind users - 29 Oct 07
We don't need no stinking CMS - 27 Oct 07
