Posts in category: Search Engine Optimisation

Google has announced today that it’s launching real time search. Simply click the “Latest” tab in the search options menu and you’ll be presented with a live, self-updating stream of up to the second results. It appears to include Twitter, Facebook and blogs, from what I’ve seen and Google claims to be able to rank [...]

Search engine optimisation for IP.Board (IPB) has been coming up a lot at the Invision Power Services forums lately. Unfortunately, as SEO is such an involved and complex subject, but also one that every web developer believes they can authoritatively discuss, a lot of misinformation is passed around in these topics and new users end up [...]

Wade and I have been fairly actively blogging for a few weeks now, and every so often, we check analytics and webmaster tools accounts for what keywords people have used to find our sites. Finding out that he ranked number one for “anti-gravity mice” has caused Wade to go on a bit of a rampage [...]

I was just playing about with Google Chrome’s extension system, and threw together a very simple one that highlights all nofollow links in pink, as I’d seen a few people using something similar in Firefox. It doesn’t do anything complex, the code is as follows:
var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
var length = elements.length – 1;
[...]

At work, the past few days, I’ve been working on the scalability of one of our systems and, hopefully, we’re almost closing on the finishing line. For some context, the system I’m talking about is effectively a web crawler. It (all too slowly) works through a queue of URLs, downloading the pages and parsing them [...]