Yes, it does already have a name and we’re already wondering how best to avoid it. Meta-tags have been rendered untrustworthy because of dishonest manipulation (honest manipulation is ok), especially the keywords tag which is pretty much useless now. Search engines depend on a wide variety of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘computing’
August 24th, 2009 - 1:11 pm § in Inspirations
Work + Life = Balance
I was on the bus thinking about what I’d learnt over the last 5-6 years and I was also thinking about Tim Ferris. He wrote a book called the 4hr week which I read and really enjoyed, there are some wonderful tips in there for making the most of your time. I have realised that I don’t [[...]
August 7th, 2009 - 12:44 pm § in TWIG
This week in Geekdom – JA\/4
Greetings, welcome to another edition of the TWIG. I hope that you have all had a good week and that you’ve enjoyed your time spent computing as much as I have. cough cough…looking forward to the weekend mind! If you haven’t done so recently go and backup your files right now. I ha[...]
August 6th, 2009 - 11:44 am § in Guest posts
A dazzlin interview with Donna Fontenot
When I 1st started out learning about SEO Donna Fontenot was one of the 1st people I came across online. I read everything she wrote, and I asked questions in the forums which she always answered. More importantly she made me feel excited about SEO. I wanted to interview her because I wanted to find[...]
June 12th, 2009 - 3:37 pm § in Ranking algorithms
Papers on PageRank you should read
PageRank is a standard and much discussed topic in SEO and while it is relevant, the methods and techniques discussed are often not. There is a lot of discussion around the original PageRank formula which is relevant, but there have been many changes and improvements since 1998. If you are an SEO w[...]
May 23rd, 2009 - 6:26 pm § in Information/text analysis
Shiny new dataset
I thought I would do a little dance a give a little w00t for the new data repository that we now have access to. All researchers will be delighted to know that you can now access raw data from the Data.gov repository. I’m also pleased because we can suggest new datasets which means this has [.[...]
May 1st, 2009 - 2:13 pm § in Inspirations
Rant: Which are you really?
There is a lot of vocab misuse around the web, and especially in webdesign, online marketing and other areas. This does not usually disturb me in any way and I couldn’t care less, but recently it has caused me hassle, so I am having a big rant about it. Some may take it personally, but [...][...]
