2005 Search Blog Awards

Posted on Saturday, 10th December 2005 | No Comments
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 (more...)

I Am God

Posted on Friday, 9th December 2005 | 3 Responses
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 ;-)

London SEO First Meetup

Posted on Tuesday, 6th December 2005 | No Comments
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 (more...)

Mobile SEO & Google Finally Validates

Posted on Sunday, 4th December 2005 | No Comments
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"] [/code] Also selecting Mobile Web (Beta) shows some interesting results. Could be time to starting thinking about Mobile (more...)

Easy Google RSS Scraping

Posted on Sunday, 4th December 2005 | 2 Responses
So, for all those of you that use GYM to scrape for URLs to ::ahem:: study, and are forced to use their normal messy SERPs because their API only allows 10 results per query (or even those that use /ie or /palm). I just noticed that on their Blog Search, Google allow you to grab an RSS feed of the results. So now (more...)

Tabke Splashing Out

Posted on Thursday, 1st December 2005 | 1 Response
Brett Tabke is obviously making more than enough cash from WebmasterWorld and his Pubcon conferences - he's just moved the company into plush new offices. WebmasterWorld Moves into New Offices in The Prestigious River Place Pointe Corporate Park in Austin, Texas WebmasterWorld Inc., the leading online search engine and Internet marketing forum and producer of PubCon conferences, has outgrown its offices and is moving to larger (more...)