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Another month passed by since the public launch of another website we have made. This time it is running that we are looking to make a finer representation of on the internet, in the form of our glorious new running event listing website Race Calendar.
You can find Race Calendar at the rather sensible URL of [...]

Well, its been some time since I wrote anything with a webmaster hat on. That’s not because I haven’t been webmastering – far from it – it’s because I’ve been doing so much of it that the last thing I’ve wanted to do it write about it. However, something has cropped up time and again [...]

As sometimes happens when you work online, particularly when you start letting slip that you spend time optimizing and ranking sites well in organic search engine results, this week a friend of mine asked for my opinion on a website.
So here we have the opportunity to provide some good old free advice, promote a couple [...]

I just filled out my first ever “Report Paid Links in our Index” report through Google’s excellent Webmaster Tools and, while I feel somewhat of a dirty snitch, at the same time, I’m absolutely sick of the amount of people who get in touch trying to buy links from us.
When the company doing this is [...]

Remember that crazy old saga about how you can’t get Google ads for free? Well you can now, providing you purchase a piece of equipment from Dell Small and Medium Business (UK).
The difference here? You might actually require some computer equipment for your business, and Dell will give you a voucher code for free Adwords [...]

Great News this week in terms of our development and ‘future proofing’ techniques has emerged, including the following hot topics that will see people like you enjoying content from people like us all around the world even more quickly, even more easily and, importantly, for years to come:
We’ve Gone iPhone and iPod Touch Friendly!
Yesterday, thanks [...]

A few months ago, the reactionary British press (The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph to be precise) got hold of some really inconclusive pictures of Kate Middleton ‘allegedly’ talking on a mobile phone while driving. At some point, we talked here about those pictures, and said that they were, well, inconclusive.
In any case, during [...]

Just ten minutes ago Google searches began displaying a “This Site May Harm Your Computer” message, which then prevents onwards access to the searched for website – including searches for Google.com! See the screenshot I grabbed below – this basically means that it is impossible to access any websites via a Google search:
The funny thing [...]

This domain was today de-indexed by Google. And, surprisingly, that actually makes me happy!
As a full-time webmaster of more than four years, I’ve experienced the odd ‘Google blip’ along the way: I’m no stranger to reinclusion requests, largely due to the borderline black-hat techniques I employed back in the old days when I first started [...]

We’ve been spammed. Hard. We’re still trying to work out how and why it occurred, and how we can best mitigate the problems it has already thrown up, but our rudimentary investigation has demonstrated one thing which has wider implications for the entire web population: at least 28,000 other websites have been similarly attacked!
This problem [...]