Search Engine Journal are running a Search Blog Awards.
My scores (out of 5):
Best Search Engine News Blogs:
Pandia - 4
MarketingPilgrim - 3
SearchEngineBlog.com - 2
Search Engine Lowdown - 4
Search Views - 2
John Battelle Search Blog - 3
Search Engine Watch Blog - 4
Threadwatch - 5
Google Blogoscoped - 3
Search Engine Roundtable - 5
Research Buzz - 3
Top Rank Blog - 2
Best
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Yesterday there was Matt Mullenweg's WordPress meet up in Covent Garden that unfortunately I couldn't get to.
Then tonight is Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble. Even Danny Sullivan is attending.
Address:
Texas Embassy Cantina
1 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 3DQ [Google Map or Multimap]
Tel: 020 7925 0077
Fax: 020 7925 0444
Email: enquiries@texasembassy.com
Tube stops: Charing Cross, Piccadilly, Leicester Square.
But unfortunately I can't make this either,
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Well, seeing that Andre is flexing his muscles on personal rankings, I thought I'd check out some of my rankings:
That targeted anchor text really can pay off ;-)
Glenn asked about this in our private SEO forum, but thought I'd share it here too. I wrote this dirty shell script a couple of years ago for Wotbox, but I think it should still work. Just set it to a cron job once a day and it will give you a nice IP to country database.
[code lang="bash"]
thedate=`date --date=yesterday +%Y%m%d`
workdir=/scripts/ipdb
savfile=$workdir/ipdb.$thedate
dbserver=127.0.0.1
database=ipdb
dbuserpass="--user=user --password=pass"
cd $workdir
echo "Downloading ARIN IP database"
wget -q "ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/delegated-arin-$thedate"
echo "Downloading
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Last night we had the first meetup of London SEO - our new monthly/bi-monthly SEO networking social event.
We decided to start this, as there's a lot of great SEOs in the UK and it seemed crazy only meeting up when Pubcon or SES is in town.
So, after a nice Vietnamese meal,
we headed down to The Legion, Shoreditch to start the social
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Google, who for some reason choose NOT to bother making their site and SERPS fully standards compliant, finally have a results serlvet that does validate - http://www.google.com/xhtml
From the DocType it can be seen that this is intended for mobile platforms:
[code lang="html"]
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Also selecting Mobile Web (Beta) shows some interesting results. Could be time to starting thinking about Mobile
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