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Should you stop linking to Wikipedia? (Black Hole SEO)

September 12th, 2008 · Comments

I’m not a huge fan of ‘Black Hat’ SEO (i.e. bending the rules, or breaking them to game SEO), but I do like to be aware of what goes on. And a recent discussion on ‘Black Hole SEO’ struck a chord with me outside of simple search engine optimisation, so I thought it was worth [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing

Back on the Google map…

July 28th, 2008 · Comments

I didn’t get as much time to blog over the weekend as I planned, due to a child with the sniffles. But in the background, my Google Page Rank has returned!
And I did at least manage to find out why Google Analytics wasn’t working for the last couple of weeks. It appears trying to add [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Dear Google

June 29th, 2008 · Comments

Hello Google,
There are many things you’ve done which I’ve appreciated. Search, Google maps, Gmail etc have all been great, and I know you’re very busy with lots of new projects and trying to figure out how on earth they’ll make money out of Youtube. And Adsense means I can cling to the dream that my [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress – the saga continues

June 7th, 2008 · Comments

Once more I’ve learned a lesson about doing the appropriate research before jumping into something! My move from Blogger to Wordpress ran into problems when I tried the feature to ‘auto-import from blogger’ feature, due to the fact I’m with Godaddy hosting. So I had to export from blogger, import into a Wordpress.com blog, then [...]

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Tags: Blogging