Could a 25-year old SEO expert by the name of Rhea Drysdale have started a revolution in our industry? Her successful fight to save the SEO trademark has renewed interest in others who stand accused of profiteering from the industry. First of these was VerifiedSEO, who attempted to establish a system to verify SEO providers [...]

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The Times and Sunday Times announced today their plans to restrict access to paid membership from June. News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for £1, or £2 for a week’s subscription. Readers who have a seven-day subscription to the print editions will not be charged extra [...]

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It’s easy to avoid disasters with hindsight and hopefully 10yrs as a domain registrar, web producer and marketer has given me some. In my opinion, here are 12 defensive steps which you should take right now. 1. Ensure Your Domains Have Accurate WHOIS records Sounds simple but you wouldn’t believe how many domain registrations have [...]

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You get used to some restrictions online when you live in Russia. There are a few novice server admins who block Russian IPs and I’ve lost count of the number of times an online order needed to be confirmed. “Yes I live in Russia. No, this credit card has not been stolen”. I think though [...]

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If you’re only going to bookmark one post this year, make it this one. Bill Slawski of Key Relevance has put together a comprehensive list of all granted patents granted to Google at the USPTO databases. There are 169 granted patents in all, with 10 in there for Exaflop. A little more than one third [...]

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There’s a useful thread over at Google Webmaster Groups that highlights an issue with default filenames such as index.html and sitemaps. As user edralph888 explains: The URL in our sitemap is in the format: http://www.domain.com/index.html?whatever=value The problem with Googlebot is that even though that is the URL we put in the sitemap, it doesn’t use [...]

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John Mueller is a well known face in Google’s Webmaster Help Group and works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. Seeing as it’s Friday, he’s allowing people to send him Webmaster questions through the service. I don’t know if this is official [...]

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SERPGuard is a free alert service that checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists for your domain(s). You may create an account, log in and add all your sites into one simple interface. If our system detects any of your URLs on the Google phishing or malware blacklists, we will send you an RSS message and [...]

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Here’s a quick link opportunity I’ll share with you. Quite a few people have pondered about getting links from the uber-popular Twitter. I had much the same thoughts as NickyCakes when I first saw that the only followed links in the service pointed to the posting applications. Strangely enough there is a much easier link [...]

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As my regular readers know, we recently launched an RSS aggregator called SocialBlogroll.com. The project went very well and it’s now happily churning through 1500+ news feeds from the online marketing community. Viewing all those feeds and blogs made me realise that more than a few people out there aren’t aware of the following tips. [...]

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