Two days ago, guest blogger Alister Cameron published a great piece of research on www.problogger.net. He went through Google’s Blogsearch patent application and uncovered a few pointers about how Google ‘may’ rank your blog posts. I highly recommend you read the article and comments , and don’t forget to pay a visit to Alister’s own […]

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I was tooling around at YouTube this morning and found a great video that focuses on the impact of Web 2.0 on our use of the web. No mention of technology… and that's one of the things that makes this so good.
Here it is.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g[/youtube]
 
The aha moment for me, when I watched this the first time, […]

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Matt Cutts just put up a post reminding us about the Google webmaster console. In particular, he highlights the robots.txt analysis tool and gives an example showing how it can find errors.

Just for fun, I used this tool on the firsthit website. Here’s a screen grab (click the thumbnail and a full size […]

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Following on from yesterday’s post about sitemap file directives in your robots.txt file, I though it may be worthwhile reviewing the process of creating a sitemap for your website.
If you website is mainly static content (ie, you use something like Dreamweaver or FrontPage to create pages), you’ll need some free software to do this. Visit […]

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The big four search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search and ASK have announced at SES New York that they now support a sitemap directive in your robots.txt file. This makes the whole submission process easier, although you still have to generate the sitemap file.
Here are each company’s blog entries:
Google: What New with Sitemaps.org ?
Yahoo: […]

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I spent a bit of time googling for information about how many searches are made around the world, each and every day. I thought it might be a very big number, but this information just doesn't seem to be available (at least not anywhere I looked).
So here's my "back of the envelope" calculations, using February […]

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