Back in December 2008 Microsoft Live Search announced that it would be releasing its new spider/crawler into the wild to crawl all those lovely websites out there, now 4 months on it seems that the MSNbot is being very naughty and and completely disregarding robots.txt and no index meta tags, and even worse, could be […]
Category: SEO/SEM
Using quote pages to get (sort of) contextual links
I was being all geeky and looking up some movie quotes to send to a friend, one’s that would help him sort out his messed up life (Hey Danny *waves*). And thought of a little idea which might be helpful in trying to score some links back to your site. You can get moderately contextual […]
Yahoo gearing up to launch Google Analytics rival?
Earlier this year (the 9th of April to be exact) Yahoo issued a press release which explained that they had acquired the web analytics and tracking company IndexTools. Now 6 months later it seems that they might be looking to roll out that acquisition to the general public with Yahoo Web Analytics. Whilst the Yahoo […]
Antispore.com – Real Christian Crusade or Clever Marketing Ploy?
Unless you have been living under a rock (or simply have zero interest in video games what so ever) then you would have probably heard about a little PC game called Spore. Amongst the hype and controversy over things such as the draconian DRM or the less than stellar reviews, there is a website which […]
Orange want you to search for ‘I am’
… And then don’t naturally rank for it…. durr! You have probably seen the adverts on TV, some guy decided to ride a bike around the world to break the world record, and tells us how he is the woman that knocked him off his bike, and he is his mother who gave him all […]