The “robots-nocontent” class attribute is a non robots.org standard supported by Yahoo only and launched in May 2007. The sole purpose of this attribute is to allow the webmaster to highlight areas of content that are considered irrelevant to the main subject of the page to Yahoo’s crawler, Slurp.
There hasn’t been much noise (if any) about the use of robots=”nocontent” since it’s launch, but I thought I’d take a look at this “class” attribute as part of my SEO research and do some tests on my site to see if it made any actual difference.
You’ve probably seen (and read about) the “fix incorrect marker location” functionality offered inside the Local Business Center area of Google Maps. What I find amazing is how easily this map location can be positioned incorrectly regardless of the registered address.
Take this ranking for “SEO Consultant London” taken from Google.co.uk.
“W6″ is not located anywhere near Picadilly Circus. Is the incorrect marker skewing the result in the SERPS? If this got corrected, would the ranking disappear? I’ve contacted the site owner to see if we can get a test running.
Ever had that terrifying feeling you’ve lost your blog? Perhaps your Wordpress installation got hacked, or your web hosts royally screwed up with a “database upgrade”. Either way there’s an almost infinite array of reasons to download and backup a copy of your website, and precisely zero reasons to neglect doing it.
If you’re a Linux user, there are lots of guides out there on how to use WGET, the free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, but no guides to doing so with Windows. Unless you fancy installing Ubuntu or Crunchbang, here’s a handy guide to downloading your site using WGET in Windows.
Update: Approximately 30 minutes ago (It’s now 15:20 on Saturday 31 Jan), results pages at Google began reporting Malware errors on all of their results. Here’s my post / screenshots on the issue so far.
Much to my alarm, the SERPS are displaying the “This site may harm your computer” link for my website, and most of the others above and below on page 1:
Thing is, there’s no problem with my site, nor any of the others in the list. Different queries are producing the same result:
I discovered Crunchbang on Lifehacker earlier today and couldn’t resist a quick tour by installing it to a USB drive. Crunchbang is a fast and light flavour of Ubuntu, and, if you’re an advanced Windows user curious about Linux, it’s an ideal entry point to explore the world of super fast Linux distros. See how dark and cool looking it is!
Want to try Crunchbang? Here’s how to install it on a USB drive from Windows Vista:
I asked “Can anyone recommend the best Wordpress hosting in the US and UK?” on Twitter today. I got some great replies and after checking them out, here’s a list of recommended hosts (according to my friends on Twitter!). I’ve pulled through the description on each site too.
1) Liquidweb (US)
Established in 1997, Liquid Web Inc, is a premier Web Hosting provider specializing in Windows and Linux Dedicated Servers, VPS, and Shared Web Hosting. Their own data centres allows them to provide unmatched service and support.
Check out these weird serps page results we found yesterday. A brand owning nearly the whole page for its own brand related query. I’ve not seen anything like this for a long time and now we can’t repeat the same results. If anyone saw the same thing yesterday I’d love to know what queries you used!
I couldn’t help but notice the “share this” link on a HP laptop product page while researching a new laptop for a friend:
Just imagine, a dynamic method of awarding a 10% saving on an e-commerce website when a product url is submitted via predefined social network sites! Amazing!
I decided to click the link to investigate just how HP must be making such a dream a reality. Maybe they’ve integrated using Open Social or they’ll ask for my Stumbleupon username to check I’ve given the url a thumbs up…
Alas, sadly no…
Recruiting a top flight SEO can be a daunting challenge for the inexperienced recruiter. This post examines what you may need to consider along the way, how you need to be prepared before placing an advertisement and what to ask in an interview to make sure you’ve got the right candidate for the job.
1) Create your job specification and job advertisement
Badenoch and Clark sum it up quite nicely in their “How to write a job specification” guide:
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