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The quirks of metric versus imperial measurements in search engines 11 Apr 2011 | 01:59 pm
I was working on a client’s website recently when I ran across a problem that raised an interesting issue. In a nutshell, how do search engines deal with imperial measures on websites? A related quest...
Gaming Google 5 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pm
I was particularly intrigued that Business Week listed a company set up to game the search engines as one of their “Most promising startups”. If you have been developing domains for any length of time...
Encouraging good anchor text for inbound links 28 Jan 2010 | 12:02 pm
How many times do you get an incoming link using your website name? To succeed with a website these days, you must have plenty of good quality inbound links with good anchor text. This is where many w...
Entertainment websites SEO trick? 25 Jan 2010 | 11:01 am
An SEO (search engine optimization) manta that still seems to be doing the rounds, was to put a keyword in a headline, in bold and in italics. I was asked recently if this is why entertainment website...
Cross-linking your own websites 28 Nov 2009 | 11:04 am
Cross-linking your own websites is an issue that comes up quite a lot. It seems logical to cross-link all the websites you own to spread the traffic across the website network and maximize the return ...
My favorite development tools are set to merge 26 Nov 2009 | 01:30 pm
I missed the announcement earlier this year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging. The less well known multi-blog WP MU is my workhorse supporting many websites on one codebase, perfect for...
Fixing out of date software 25 Nov 2009 | 03:08 pm
What have you done to secure your websites? One of the common suggestions is to hide the version number of your software. The argument goes that if you haven’t upgraded your software, showing the vers...
Hostelworld.com sold to US firm 14 Nov 2009 | 01:38 pm
A short sweet post. These are the kind of stories that keep everyone going. A lot of hard work finally paying off. Dublin-based company behind Hostelworld.com has been bought by a US private investme...
A word from the wise 5 Nov 2009 | 10:07 am
I attended an advisory board meeting yesterday and it reminded me that we all need some independent advice on our strategies and businesses, no matter what size they are. We all try to see the upside ...
Outrunning the lion 20 Oct 2009 | 12:57 pm
You may have heard the joke about two men faced by a hungry lion. One starts putting on running shoes. The other says “Those shoes won’t help you outrun the lion”. He answers back “I only have to outr...
