One of the most useful bits of kit I have installed is IE tester . This lets you view websites as rendered in Internet explorer versions 5.5 to 8. Read more…

I was sent a marketing email today informing me that our registrar is now offering .co domain name. New domain name extensions often lead to rush buying of trademark and legally protected domains, however , the . Read more…

I've been looking at the topic of Latent Semantic Indexing  (LSI) which is what major search engines use to identify which keywords are related to each other; examples are, if you put into google ' Cleethorpes ' you will al... Read more…

Google has created a special version of the it's trends pages just for the 2010 UK General Election. The General Election Trends page shows the relative number of people who are search for the party leaders. Read more…

There is now an updated Top Search Query page in the Google Webmaster Tools. Read more…

Today, I'm now ranked #1 for the phrase ' Lincolnshire SEO ' in google!!  - IN YOUR FACE Koss and ArtsGraphica!! - it's taken about 4 months to get there, not because of the high number of results, but because the sites that ... Read more…

I got another enquiry from an SEO spammer - basically, SEO spammers are people who 'cold call' your website by sending automated emails telling you that they can get you to the first page of google. Read more…

I was reading in the paper last week about the relative increase of online ecom shopping - a growth of about 11% over last year, and how Facebook has been helping fuel the rise in online spending. Read more…

Every year, google puts out an april fool joke on unsuspecting punters. This year, its Google Animal Translation - a google phone app to translate animal language. Last year it was Google 3D, and the year before it was . Read more…