SEO & GEO16 Feb 2011
Block domain for Google Chrome
A Chrome extension lets people hide entire domains from the SERPs and ships the list back to Google. Why rely on 15% of users when the Labs 'like it' button did the same?
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Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
SEO & GEO11 Feb 2011
Grant access to Google Analytics to a second user
A small task I do often enough that writing it down once seemed easier than explaining it each time — how to grant a second user access to a Google Analytics account.
SEO & GEO20 Jan 2011
7 steps to manage the URL migration
Migrating a website, whatever the reason, is never trivial. Fail to plan, and link equity and page authority go with it — the seven steps I follow to avoid it.
SEO & GEO15 Jan 2011
How important is the link building?
Algorithms have been polished for a decade, but the basic component of online reputation hasn't changed — link building. Where to get links, and how not to damage the site.
SEO & GEO8 Dec 2010
Black hat seo may spam your SERP using your site URL
An SEO Mofo post on how to spam a competitor's SERP opened my eyes. A couple of guidelines — your DNS wildcard and robots.txt — to mitigate the damage of a query-spam attack.
SEO & GEO8 Oct 2010
Google Webmaster Tools and the percentile value in the search queries report
The Search Queries report now carries three percentile columns — impressions, CTR and average position — colour-coded green and red. Is Google slowly building a ranking suite?
SEO & GEO5 Oct 2010
8 golden rules for a perfect website
Because I always repeat myself to people about to build a new website, here are the top eight rules I'd like them to respect — summarised in one place.
SEO & GEO2 Sep 2010
Bing and the expanded results
After the Yahoo! merge, Bing shipped a neat feature — expanded results that show seven matches plus three from the same brand. Smarter and less invasive than Big G's 'top 7'.
SEO & GEO12 Feb 2010
HTML5 and SEO: how the new syntax will influence search engine optimisation?
HTML5 brings article, section, header, footer, aside — a vocabulary that finally tells a spider what matters on a page. A look at what this means for SEO as the spec matures.