Getting a Website Unblocked By O2′s Adult Content Filter
Our main website was blocked by O2′s Adult Filter At work, our flagship brand’s website was being actively blocked by O2′s default adult content filter, despite the fact that it contains absolutely no...
View ArticleFacebook Likes: Fake it ’til you make it
So, you’ve set up a new blog, crafted a beautiful layout, spent ages writing great content, and now your social counters have been sitting at 0 for days. Desperate for approval, you’ve searched high...
View ArticleHow to be a bad person #1: Comment spam
No one likes comment spam, and thanks to advances in anti-spam techniques, it’s fairly ineffective these days – every day, my blogs get hit by dozens of scrapeboxes, and nothing ever gets through....
View Article+1 To Get One: A Technical Proof
I originally posted this on Red or Blue “Pay with a tweet” and similar functions for Facebook and other social networks have become quite popular lately. They allow companies to give away something...
View ArticleTwitter’s DoFollow Links
Twitter has just opened the door to a hundred million spammers SEO accounts. It was always possible to have a link on your profile, but that was always nofollowed and fairly useless for SEO purposes,...
View ArticleStop what you’re doing this very instant: Why you’re doing authorship wrong
We all know that linking to your Google plus profile using the rel=author tag is (almost) all you need to do to get credit for your article, a gorgeous face in the SERPs, and other miscellaneous good...
View ArticleTwitter Shortlinks No Longer Passing Link Juice
If you’ve ever had any of your links shared on twitter, you have potentially just lost a load of link equity which was coming from embedded feeds. Many sites use the Twitter API to display their user...
View ArticleTechnical SEO – 5 fixes to improve your visibility
I recently did a talk at the London Affiliate Conference on the most common technical SEO issues and how to fix them to improve your organic visibility. The slidedeck is below – I’m happy to answer any...
View Article[The Guardian] The Invasion of Social Commerce
The line between social networks such as Facebook and marketplaces like Amazon is about to become blurred. Google, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter are all set to roll out facilities for users to...
View ArticleNoIndex in robots.txt is totally a thing, guys
We all know what the ‘noindex’ robots directive is: when it appears in a document (either as a <meta> tag in the HTML header, or within the HTTP header under X-Robots-Tag), a search engine’s...
View ArticleNoSnippet and NoArchive inside Robots.txt
Last week I wrote about a test which I’ve been sitting on for a little over a year – all about how Google obeys a NoIndex directive inside the robots.txt file. After publishing that, I got thinking –...
View ArticleA normal post dated in the past
This is a test post. Today I noticed a tweet showing that Google indexes dates in the future. I know that Google shows dates in the SERPs for this blog, as seen below. This is a control post, let’s see...
View ArticleBeyond the end of time
This post is dated past the end of time. Well, the end of UNIX time anyway. I noticed a tweet today that the big G indexes and displays future dates in it’s SERPs. This is a test to see what will...
View ArticleJust before the end of time
Well, apparently Google won’t show a date AFTER the UNIX epoch, but what about just before it?? Update: Nope: The post Just before the end of time appeared first on Alec Bertram.
View ArticleProtected: Make Screaming Frog Crawl Javascript Websites With PhantomJS
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Make Screaming Frog Crawl Javascript Websites With PhantomJS appeared first on Alec...
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