SEO Articles

If anyone was wondering why your backlink scraper tools haven't been performing properly, the reason could lie in MSN discontinuing the advanced queries on the search engine. This announcement comes a couple of weeks ago - 28th March 2007. I had noticed these queries weren't working, but had just thought it was something broken and it would be back soon. Looking at MSN's helpful error... > read more

MS Office Live - Microsoft's attempt at a "professional" web development package. After looking at the HTML code of the example sites they showcase, I take offense to the self proclaimed professional label. Here are the top 0 reasons why you should love MS Office Live... Top 0 reasons Please feel free to post comments if you have anything to add to this comprehensive list. > read more

While checking for broken links this morning after a site upgrade, I noticed a 302 on Matt Cutts' website. This seemed a bit odd. Matt Cutts is a staunch advocate for 301 redirects when content moves or no longer exists. I visited the link, and found a rather interesting site upgrade...... > read more

This isn't SEO related, so bear with me. Anyone in the tech support industry will know how frustrating it is dealing with end users over the phone, even when dealing with seemingly simple issues. But this is compounded when people don't have a phone next to their computer. I had to explain to... > read more

Matt Cutts recently posted about indexing search results pages on your site. This interested (and worried) me as I'm quite a fan of getting my search results indexed. The bottom line is, Google says you should block your search results pages from being indexed, using robots.txt or your favorite... > read more

This just occurred to me. I was minding my own business reading some blog comments on one of my favourite SEO blogs, and I spotted an interesting comment which I felt was interesting enough to warrant a visit to the author's site. Yes, posting comments on blogs can drive traffic if you have... > read more

I just stumbled across an oldish post on Stuntdubl talking about how Google no longer comes up with "did you mean stuntdouble" when you search for his name. Apparently Google is clever enough to figure out that the misspelling is actually not a misspelling. Guess what...... > read more

My wife gave birth to a little girl today, Emily Kane. Emily was born naturally and weighs 4.1kg, a nice healthy weight. I tried to get her started on some of my favourite SEO blogs, but I don't think new babies have particularly good eyesight. Yeah, we are pretty happy. This beats getting... > read more

I couldn't resist posting this one, sorry. It's Friday night, and I was a bit light on blog material until I paid another visit to Ferrit. Ferrit, New Zealand's resident fat animal of SEO, seems to have gone backwards in terms of Google indexing since I last checked them out. Above: I don't... > read more

I will be playing in the SEO Poker Tournament on Saturday March 24th at 9:00 PM GMT. Hell, why not. This seems like a fun concept, and though I suck at poker I'm going to give it a go anyway. What this likely means is I'm going to have to give away some free links to SEO sites. Above -... > read more

For New Zealanders dealing with people in the US or overseas, we have one distinct disadvantage - our NZ dollar is worth less than an American dollar, so if we price things in NZ dollars, we seem... > read more

Lately I'm spending more time spamming (cough - I mean adding useful and relevant content) to forums and blog comments. Even if they are nofollow links, it's all about brand building and getting... > read more

I was having a look at my site stats from yesterday, and came across a result I wasn't expecting. Apparently someone found me for "buy propecia"??? This seems odd, because I don't... > read more

People often ask what I do. A good question, I do lots of different things. I started off by saying I was a web developer - being the correct term for what I mostly do. But the term web developer... > read more

I have been all bitter and twisted the past few weeks about Google putting some of my pages into the supplemental index. And not just my rubbish pages, some of my best content has gone... > read more

I have just completely revamped the NZ Coastguard boating education website tonight. When I say "revamped", I mean make substantial changes to the backend with virtually no changes to... > read more

I was recently approached by a client asking about putting a blog on their business website. The request was odd, as it wasn't the sort of site that would typically lend itself to having a blog... > read more

One of my new year's resolutions has to spend more time trolling forums and blogs. To interact more, learn some new tricks and (ahem) build some comment and signature links. Many blogs use... > read more

I have just released a beta of SEO Form - a Firefox extension which helps you with directory submissions and link exchanges. The tool simply autocompletes common form fields for you such as... > read more

Apologies for the second post in a row on Google PageRank. I'm not *that* fascinated by it, really. I'm one of those guys that thinks that PR / Alexa Rank is largely a dick measuring contest... > read more