Holy Spam Surge - Webmasters Beware dfgsdfgfr@r45t !!
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Google, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat, wordpress | 4 Comments »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 ...
Who’s Making the Internet Finer?
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in General, Google, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat | 1 Comment »Just ask google - that's us, we are making the internet finer. Its official. Google knows. Do you?Share This
The Things People Search
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in General, Google, THAT's Funny!, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat | No Comments »You know you've got a lot of diverse content within your network when you can look through pages and pages of the words people used to access some or all of your sites and find some real gems. Here is a ...
Blocking and Banning IP Ranges - Bad Bots
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Blogging, General, Web Search (SEO), Webmaster Chat | No Comments »Until we started running our own servers, and generally having many more pages (over 250,000 at the last count), it wasn't really that important if our little old blog or website was hit by a few extra hits from rogues ...
The Google PageRank Shuffle
Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted in General, Google, Web Search (SEO) | 1 Comment »You knew it was coming, and this week it arrived: Google has re-aligned its PageRank display (you know, the toolbar one that we webmasters live and breathe by). I knew this site had been boosted a lot of late, as the ...
What’s Wrong With Google Adsense
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in General, Google, Web Search (SEO) | 3 Comments »Google's Adsense system seems to have gone rather berserk this week. I thought I'd ride it out, and wait for a resolution, but alas, today things are no better. The problem is this, when looking at Adsense reports, I see all the ...
Diggers, Googlers & Stumblers
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Blogging, General, Google, Offbeat News, Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Soapbox, Web Search (SEO) | 2 Comments »Most websites and blogs can and do attract new visitors through search engines and social 'site sharing' networks. Three of the main players in these fields are Google, Digg and Stumbleupon. But do webmasters or bloggers critically assess the traffic ...
Russell Grant Horroscopes?
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 Posted in General, Google, THAT's Funny!, Web Search (SEO) | 1 Comment »I check my Google Analytics every now and again and it is often funny to see what people have been searching for when they get onto some of my websites. This website throws up the strangest variations, probably due to ...
New Google Adsense Referrals - Referral 2.0
Sunday, September 16th, 2007 Posted in General, Google, Web Search (SEO) | 1 Comment »Google have taken the 2.0 out of the much maligned (by me) term "web 2.0" and combined it with their somewhat limited Adsense Referrals system to create a new ways for webmasters like me to 'monetize' their website(s). I only discovered ...
All Those Things That I’ve Done
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Travels, Web Search (SEO) | No Comments »As I meet more and more people on our travels, and through work, I find that I'm explaining what I'm up to and what I've done more and more. Quite a lot of people from across the globe come onto ...