The blog has been a bit quiet over the last month since i have been a very busy little bee.

I just wanted to write a quick post to say that i am speaking at SES London tomorrow on the 19th February at 12:45 on the Successful Site Architecture panel.

We will pretty much be covering the following…

Learn how to successfully architect your site for search engines and how specific page elements and design technologies may impact your ability to gain good organic listings. Covers topics such as directory and file structure, server-side includes (SSIs), 404 error trapping, JavaScript, robots.txt use, frames, secure area usage, and much more. Toward the end of the session, volunteers from the audience will have their sites examined to see how changes could be made to their site architecture and design to increase search engine traffic, as time allows.

I am going to cover the more technical details, so if you around come and sit in my session and cheer me on 🙂

Well Xmas time is upon us and i will be going back home to Lincoln to enjoy some fine food, fine wine, and some prezzies.

Our very own Chewbacca logo has had the Xmas treatment so he and I wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

I look forward to writing a ton more blog posts next year and getting some more guest bloggers on board.

Have fun,

Chewie

I just did a quick search on Google and noticed that i got those Digg like Google (Diggoogle?) results. I think its officially called Google SearchWiki, and if you didn’t know it basically just lets you promote a site up the rankings (by use of the arrow), send a site to the bottom of the rankings (by use of the X), and also make a comment about the site all within the Google SERPS.

At the bottom of the results page you also get the option to add a result, see all your notes, and see all notes that have been made about that particular search result.

Off to the top we go :o)

This has been in labs forever so its not new, i think may have even had it rolled out on .com for a bit? According to a post i later read over at Search engine land, it was realised to .com at the same time as .co.uk. Anyway, it doesn’t matter because this is the first time i have been logged into Google (it never shows if you are not logged in) or haven’t changed any of my settings, and it has shown up.

I think it’s pretty obvious that we won’t see our voting patterns being able to effect the natural SERPs for a while, but you KNOW that Google is mining and ploughing through all that data to continue to tailor results in the future. I haven’t looked too hard but i can’t immediately see how to turn it off either.

It’s probably worth noting that it doesn’t appear on the G Labs experimental search page, which i am sure is where it used to live, and you can check out more info on the Google Search Blog.

Finally, take a look at the video explaining it all…

Ah i love the internet, each day it seems that i find something else i didn’t know about and this time it is with the wondrous Google.

I am sure a few people will have known about this but its the first time i have seen it. I remember finding the Google calculator a fair few years back and this brought back some memories.

The first one is ‘population [country]’ which will return the population of a country in GCalc style

The second one is ‘Area [Country]’ which provides the land area.

I am sure there are plenty of other ones related, but i found these fun 🙂

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