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Moving On To Pastures New
I wrote this post a couple of months ago, on August 21st, but didn’t get around to publishing it, so here it is now.
After 5 years of working at iCrossing (previously Spannerworks), I’ve finally decided to take the extremely difficult decision to move on. Today is my final day as Head of Natural Search and as an employee of iCrossing. The last 5 years have probably been some of the best of my life, and all I have are good things to say about iCrossing and Spannerworks. › Continue reading
Rand’s Interesting Questions
Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz has raised some really good points with his 8 more SEO topics that have me stumped. His topics were:
- Does QDD Give an Inherent Boost to Negative Subject Matter?
- The 302 Hijack is Back?
- Are the Engines Following URL Shortening Services?
- What Was Up with The Hyves Subdomain PR Penalty Checker?
- The Engines All Regularly Follow Many More than 100 Links Per Page?
- Is it Really Harder to Get Rankings with a .info, .cc, or .biz Extension?
- Does Google Employ Link Buying Moles?
- Will Anchor Text Value Pass Through Terribly Low Quality Links? › Continue reading
My first SEO post
So I started this blog so I could be more vocal about SEO. Pretty soon into it (it’s been less than a week) I already remember why all my previous attempts failed – it takes a lot of commitment and dedication to get this type of thing off the ground, and unless I’m the first person to blog about anything, it always feels like you’re just regurgitating old information. I did exactly that at work today with this post on Google’s faux pas over the weekend. By the time I’d got to the office after a busy weekend it had already been so well documented that it was hard to add anything new to the story. › Continue reading
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- @spotify Upgraded to Premium last night, but having login issues this morning via the iPhone app - are there known problems atm?
- @GlastoWatch oh, didn't realise that
- @GlastoWatch woah - just read that post - has the price of the tickets gone up? Don't remember them costing £195 before
- @buffystar yep - was down earlier. back up now, but still a bit temperamental
- Holy sh*t - Facebook is down
- http://digg.com/videos - kinda surprised that URL still ranks in Google. Though it would've been dropped by now
- @timaldiss no worries - out of town anyways. Next time
- @timaldiss which hours would they be?whereabouts in london? I've got plans, but may be able to rearrange
- @ralphsparkle Exhibition space? http://yfrog.com/nd8j6j