I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last few weeks on the London transport system due to various work commitments and I always have a read of the free newspapers that are circulated on the Underground. More often than not they are full of celebrity tittle tattle, dull political drivel and the same [...]

Over the last couple of years there has been an increase in the amount of information coming out of Google regarding the way they operate. They’ve created numerous official blogs about their various products as well as allowing people like Matt Cutts to maintain his blog and, therefore, become the unofficial voice of Google for [...]

Google’s Matt Cutts is asking for feedback from webmasters. Big G are looking to improve their Webmaster Central features and Matt has posted a list of possible additions including tools for detecting duplicate content, a way to list supplemental results and information about Google penalties.
As much as I’ve whined about Google in the past, you [...]

Despite what I’ve read on a couple of SEO blogs recently, you can still find your supplemental results by using the following query:
site:your domain -view***
Well it works for me, anyhow. I mean it still returns woefully inaccurate results but at least it’s better than nothing.
I really don’t understand why Google won’t include supplemental results in [...]

Following my conversion on the road to Damascus (i.e. embracing the DoFollow campaign), I installed a Firefox extension called SearchStatus. It allows you to see a whole heap of information about a website including Alexa ranking, Google PageRank, domain registration details and whether or not the site employs link condoms.
If SearchStatus discovers a nofollowed link, [...]