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Archive for June, 2006

Monthly meta-post for June

Friday, June 30th, 2006
Here’s my round-up of the best of other peoples posts from the last month. This is all stuff from the web development and search communities that I’ve found useful, interesting or funny: Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it) A great piece from Damien Katz. If you're a progra… read more

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Amazon.com dropped from Google?

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Both John Battelle and LeeAnn Prescot are reporting that a Google.com search for amazon.com returns zero results. Has Amazons nasty markup finally caught up with it and got the site banned? Well, probably not - its more likely to be yet further teething troubles for the BigDaddy update, Googles l… read more

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html emails - css+divs or tables?

Monday, June 26th, 2006
I've just been reading David Greiner's HTML Emails - Taming the Beast article on the Vitamin website. Its a great article and makes some good points, especially for those who are just about to torture themselves for the first time by creating a html email campaign! In the article, David makes a cas… read more

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Google drops to 3rd in Alexa global rankings

Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Search Engine Round Table reported that Google has dropped from 2nd place to 3rd in the Alexa top 500 sites. This is a significant shift which puts the top three global players on the web in the following order: www.yahoo.com www.msn.com www.google.com People who think that Google's worl… read more

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Intent driven search from Yahoo!

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
I recently came across this nice research piece from Yahoo! Yahoo! Mindset is an intent driven search allowing you to bias your search results towards either shopping or research using a neat "Web 2.0" looking slider bar at the top of the page (if you leave the slider in its default pos… read more

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Being in the top 5 is nice, but not essential…

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
OK, so the ultimate aim of any SEO effort is to get the page in question to appear in the top 5 of the SERPS and ideally to appear first for a certain keyphrase. There are rumours doing the rounds at the moment that suggest that Google may be reducing page 1 of the SERPS to 5 results instead of 10 t… read more

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Peter Crouch’s Robot Dance

Friday, June 9th, 2006
Did somebody say football? I picked up on this nice footy related post from Heather Hopkins at Hitwise yesterday which graphs some interesting search trends around World Cup keyword search traffic. There are things you would expect to see like high traffic for queries about Beckham's hairstyle and… read more

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Google still rule, but by how much?

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Which search engines are most popular? I decided to do a quick post on how popular each of the major search engines are, partly to highlight the market dominance of Google, but also to show the race for second place. These stats are based on number of referrals to a range of sites that I work with… read more

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