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Problems with Googles parsing of in google sitemaps 24 Aug 2012 | 02:23 pm
Found an interesting problem with XML Sitemaps and the way Google seems to handle the lastmod time. The sitemap protocol uses W3C Time as the standard. I thought I would write this up and put this out...
Link builder Chutzpah or Spearlink Spam Attack 20 Jul 2012 | 09:02 pm
I work for RBI in the inhouse SEO team and we recently received a email that was part of a link building campaign they had obviously scraped on of our large sites ICIS ( a Big Chemical And Energy Indu...
Googles April Algorithem Changes Panda3.5 19 April and Penguin 24th April 1 May 2012 | 01:28 am
Google have released an number of different algorithm update this month the following is a brief description of the changes Google have made in April. I did a brief summary for our internal users – an...
Best Adsense Fail or Scary Devil Nunnery Recruiting – and a SEO Fail on jobs.guardian.co.uk 24 Sep 2011 | 05:22 am
Whilst perusing the Guardians job section to analyse the platform they use – I both found a number of ways to completely mess up that entire section of the site and I also found what must be the stra...
HPCC – High Performance Computer Cluster Open Sourced 29 Jun 2011 | 08:40 am
I love my Job I get to play with large amounts of data and some cool new cutting edge cloud based toys such as Map Reduce and Mahout and some interesting Web 2.0 Machine learning and AI type algorithm...
Panda Update Hits the UK and All English Queries 12 Apr 2011 | 08:19 am
It looks like the infamous Panda Google update has arrived outside of the USA. According to Google the Panda update (some times called Farmer/Panda) is meant to better identify low-quality pages and...
New Funtionality in GWT Non Informative Title Tags and Non Indexable Content 23 Mar 2011 | 10:34 pm
Google have just lanched some new funtionality in GWT (Google Webmaster tools) two new items in the html sugestions: Non Informative Title Tags and Non Indexable Content Could be usefull in diagno...
Steam Punk Sara Palin 10 Feb 2011 | 10:45 am
Comics or graphic novels if we are being pretentious have had some odd one offs and crossovers -and recently a genre which mixes science with Jules Verne HG Wells era SF called steam punk has become p...
RIP Gladys Horton of The Marvelettes 3 Feb 2011 | 10:56 am
Sad to see that Gladys Horton one the founders of the Marvelettes has recently passed away. I saw her obit in the Guardian the other day. I thought I should post up a link to one of my favorite Marvel...
Bing Copying – Google Throws Toys out of Pram 2 Feb 2011 | 03:40 am
Oh dear sounds like Google is getting upset over Bing using googles results to improve theirs from the write up on Searchengine land here. Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing ha...