Posts in category: Search Engine Optimisation

Not sure quite what’s happened, or why, but this site has lost it’s position one ranking for “Dan Cryer”, along with it’s previous position 4-10 for “Leeds Web Developer”. The first page that now ranks for “Dan Cryer” is “my latest attempt at a blog” in position 11, with my about page right below it. [...]

I was looking at my server logs this evening, and noticed the following: 66.249.66.35 www.cheaphotels-bristol.co.uk – [03/Aug/2009:23:21:23 +0000] “GET /?hotel_min_price=80&hotel_max_price=40&hotel_order=name_asc HTTP/1.1″ 200 4998 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)” 66.249.66.35 www.cheaphotels-bristol.co.uk – [03/Aug/2009:23:22:53 +0000] “GET /?hotel_min_price=60&hotel_max_price=200&hotel_order=distance HTTP/1.1″ 200 58235 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)” 66.249.66.35 www.cheaphotels-bristol.co.uk – [03/Aug/2009:23:24:23 +0000] “GET /?hotel_min_price=60&hotel_max_price=150&hotel_order=price_asc HTTP/1.1″ 200 56684 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 [...]

After the announcement of Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft to use Bing on all Yahoo! properties, there’s been a lot of concern over the future of Yahoo! Site Explorer. As a result, we’ve been looking into alternative sources for backlink data. Google, of course, provide some backlink data through webmaster tools, but it’s poor at best. [...]