http://www.nott.org SEO, PHP, Photography & Other Stuff Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:52:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another quick family post. Tonight Mya played her first public violin solo at her school music and drama recital. She was the youngest participant in the recital and has only been having violin lessons at school for a few months. She did great. http://www.nott.org/blog/first-violin-recital.html I don't post here very often and when I do it's certainly never about SEO (I'm way too cool for that). So it pretty much has to be something important nowadays to make me get off my lazy behind and fire-up wordpress. But this post is one that I am ... http://www.nott.org/blog/nott-family-women-race-for-life.html The Nott world has been in a bit of an upheaval recently when it comes to health and food: taking up and sticking with my first bit of serious exercise in decades - karate, and being on a serious weight loss plan - lost nearly 2 stone in last 2 ... http://www.nott.org/blog/no-longer-vegetarian.html As a few friends/colleagues know, I decided to join a Shotokan Karate club back in August. I'd been looking for a regular exercise regime for the last few years, and as my wife and daughter had been attending and enjoying the club since January, I thought I'd give it a ... http://www.nott.org/blog/seo-ninja.html For those who attended the recent SEO drinks after Ad:tech London, you may remember Lisa Ditlefsen (from SEO Chicks) and Rob Kerry (evilgreenmonkey) making a small wager. They bet that if Rob could get onto the front page (top ten) in Google for weddings by the time of PubCon Vegas, ... http://www.nott.org/blog/seo-wedding-rob-kerry-lisa-ditlefsen.html Now I know monkey's aren't famed for their intelligence, but I am really amazed how little our evil green one understands about the meaning of 'low-profile'. He knows what I think about SEO Celebrities and that I 've enjoyed my relative anonymity for the last 8 years within the industry. ... http://www.nott.org/blog/i-hate-monkeys-especially-the-evil-green-ones.html As you may have read, earlier this week Rob and I threw off any ounce of credibility in the SEO industry that we may have had, by selling out and exhibiting Ayima at Ad:tech London. The thing is though, it really was far more successful than I imagined, and we got ... http://www.nott.org/blog/we-sold-out.html [alt-title: Ayima hires yet another dirty black-hat spammer] :) Anyone who's trying to run a growing search operation knows how hard it is to hire good SEOs. Some people like to take on newbies and train them up but who really has the time to do that? And as I have ... http://www.nott.org/blog/esrun-joins-the-ayima-team.html I'm sure most others in the industry are used to the general public not having a clue what we do for a living. When asked what I do, it's normally safest to mention I.T. or a vague 'online marketing'. So I was very surprised today, that while sat in my optician's ... http://www.nott.org/blog/seos-in-the-strangest-places.html I would hereby like to officially introduce you all to the future of SEO consulting - Ayima Search Marketing!! Ayima was born out of the frustration felt about the poor reputation of the UK SEO industry, caused mainly by the low quality of the UK's mainstream agencies. We really feel there is ... http://www.nott.org/blog/the-launch-of-ayima.html Well wasn't that a nice little break? 19 months since my last post is definitely something to be proud about!! But I suppose its time for me to get back into the blogging game and it really is quite overdue. Trying to think of everything that has happened to me in the ... http://www.nott.org/blog/a-nice-break.html Last month we had a naming day for our second daughter Lana on her first birthday. As part of the ceremony, our 6 year old daughter Mya read a beautiful poem dedicated to her little sister. http://www.nott.org/blog/mya-poem-reading.html Glenn over at SSEO asked for a script to do mass whois lookups. Use this function: [code lang="php"] function getwhois($domain, $tld) { ... http://www.nott.org/blog/php-whois-script.html Something is wrong - G's algo is definitely screwed!!! I don't know how, but I am currently the 6th coolest guy on the planet. I only wrote the post to help boost Andre's coolness, but looks like I'm just way cooler than him. :-) [update] Damn, looks like BigDaddy just doesn't think I'm ... http://www.nott.org/blog/6th-coolest-guy-on-the-planet.html Finally a date has been decided upon for the next LondonSEO pubcon pissup - Thursday, 9th February. Venue: The Legion, Old Street, London. No time frame specified, but most people will probably be there 6-7pm onwards. No fees, registration or any of that hassle needed! Just turn up, drink + chat. http://www.nott.org/blog/next-londonseo-meet-anounced.html [note: this page is not in the contest] As anyone in the industry will know, there is currently an SEO contest going on, started by John Scott at V7Network and improved on by Greg, Todd & Mike Grehan. Rather than trying to pocket the change, Graywolf has done the respectable thing and ... http://www.nott.org/blog/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem.html For all those wanting to check the rollout of the BigDaddy update, here's a list of 116 Google Datacenters: 64.233.161.98 64.233.161.99 64.233.161.104 64.233.161.105 64.233.161.106 64.233.161.107 64.233.161.147 64.233.163.99 64.233.163.104 64.233.167.99 64.233.167.104 64.233.167.106 64.233.167.107 64.233.167.147 64.233.171.99 64.233.171.103 64.233.171.104 64.233.171.105 64.233.171.106 64.233.171.107 64.233.171.147 64.233.179.99 64.233.179.104 64.233.179.106 64.233.179.107 64.233.183.99 64.233.183.104 64.233.183.107 64.233.185.99 64.233.185.104 64.233.185.106 64.233.185.107 ... http://www.nott.org/blog/google-datacenters.html Alert!! Alert!! This blog has been hacked!! Andre Chaperon is officially the 3rd Coolest Guy On The Planet!!! http://www.nott.org/blog/coolest-guy-on-the-planet.html Spent a bit of time yesterday trying to get my code examples highlighted using the GeSHi class. However using the WordPress plugin code, I found that though the code was coming up fine it was removing all paragraphs and line breaks from any surrounding text. So I then wrote my ... http://www.nott.org/blog/colorcode-wordpress-plugin-to-highlight-code.html Good to see some of the old techniques still being used: [courtesy of this blog's stats] http://www.nott.org/blog/referer-spam.html