There’s been a continuous and very useful flow of writing on the web around the subject of techniques and products using HTML5 and structured data recently. The use of structured data in front end web design is a favourite subject of mine, an interest that more frequently influences recommendations in our SEO consulting. Recently I discussed the subject with a client and while it may be impractical to rush off and start rebuilding your website in glorious HTML5 today, there are numerous things you can do to improve the markup of your web pages, actions which perhaps will inspire learning and ideas for how the future version of your website should be built.
SES London is always a packed conference full of exciting speakers and presentations and this year is no exception. The event itself returns to The Business Design Centre, Islington full of the usual day and night entertainment and, although nothing has been announced yet, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a London SEO happen on one of those nights. This particular badge appears to be the one SES intended for partly for Chicago but it looks pretty enough so let’s go with it. For info, the London conference will be on the 15th to the 19th of February.
In the last hour, SEOmoz have launched a new tool Open Site Explorer, driven by the vast wealth of data collected by their Linkscape product. I’ve been playing with the tool and I’m already excited about some of the actionable insights the tool can deliver. Here are my tips for making the best use of Open Site Explorer:
Optimise your most authoritative internal links
A few weeks ago we ran a competition to win a copy of the excellent “The Art of SEO“, recognised as “Best Search Engine Optimization Book in 2009″ by readers of Lee Odden’s TopRankBlog.
There were many entertaining and insightful entries, which made choosing one winner too difficult. So, I chose 3.
This morning, we have a guest post from our friend Jeff Orloff who’s been contributing to SEOgadget on subjects such as “What Google’s Chrome OS Means for the Future of Computing“, and using “Ubuntu in the Office“. Today, he’s looking at the dark art of SQL Link Injection, how to test to see if your Wordpress installation suffered this ill fate and ways to mitigate the risk. Over to you, Jeff…
Having written extensively on SQL injections and cross-site scripting injection techniques, I was not surprised in the least bit when I read an article describing how a link injection works.
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Almost a year ago, Matt Cutts asked his blog readers to Give Google feedback on “noresults” pages. According to Matt, “The #1 complaint (20+ comments) was “empty review” sites.”, and as far as his post at the time was concerned, empty review pages were in breach of the following Google Webmaster Guidelines:
Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.
Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
Our Nexus One arrived in the UK on January 7th last week. The fast delivery time was impressive, and the animations on power up showing off the quality of the screen satisfying. But what of the experience of using the phone and migrating from an iPhone? Is a Nexus One better than an iPhone? I’ve been with mine long enough to offer you my thoughts so far.
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We’re rather excited today – after ordering the new Google Nexus One during the live announcement, DHL have (amazingly) managed to get through the snow and ice to deliver our new phone. Here it is, in pictures:
When you first turn the phone on, you’re treated to quite a pretty animation – which shows off the screen display very well. You’re welcomed by very clear instructions on how to set the phone up, use the features and register the phone with your Google account:
Here’s the box:
Today we’re talking to Dave Naylor, SEO at 
In the first of a series of 3 interviews with speakers at this year’s 
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