I’m very pleased to be speaking at two panels this year at the SMX London event on the 18th and 19th May, 2009.
Both of my panels are on the 19th – first up, “Industrial Strength SEO“. I’ll actually be drawing upon some of my experience in organisational SEO for this one. Particulary, recruiting, organising and managing your SEO team. Those that know me well will realise I’ll be drawing upon my experience as UK SEO Manager for Cheapflights.co.uk. I’ll also be covering how to interface SEO practises with the rest of the company, from content creation to SEO technical specifications. Should be a nice start to the day.
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Those of you who read this blog regulary know that I’m really keen on promoting and using the open source operating system, Ubuntu. It’s the most popular Linux flavour for those people considering moving away from Windows, it’s powerful, reliable and, you can make it look really pretty just like this:
I’ve just updated my Ubuntu installation guide for users wishing to install the latest Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope release (9.04) using Wubi (the installer from inside Windows) or, the full installation on a new partition from either a USB stick or a CD.
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Unfortunately, resizing your Windows Vista partition isn’t particularly easy. That fact is regardless of the presence of Vista’s drive management tool, the piece of Windows functionality that should make it easy to shrink or extend your drive partitions.
So, while I’ve been preparing to install Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope I’ve had to learn how to get around this problem. I thought I’d share the process with you and add some value to this forum post by testing the process and simplifying it with screenshots and a step by step guide.
The problem with Windows Vista drive management
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Today, I’d like to share an observation I made after analysing new back links acquired from guest blogging on Search Engine Journal and getting promoted to the main blog at SEOmoz. It’s really interesting how the more popular, high authority domains get copied (scraped) so frequently by other sites that have pagerank or are sometimes even functioning companies in their own right.
Could these scraper sites pass any value through their outbound links and as a consequence, can the process of guest blogging on well scraped sites be levered to work in your favour?
Blogs get scraped
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On the 24th of March, Google added a “Searches related to:” section on their search results pages and started to include longer snippets for long tail queries. Here’s their announcement:
Today we’re rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
Here’s a quick thought though, beyond user considerations, would a search engine company like Google have any other motivation to enhance the search results pages in this way? Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of the searcher for a moment:
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You might feel like the last SMX London conference was only months ago. “Oh! How time flies”, you could say. Well, it was only a few months ago – SMX London has moved from November to May 2009.
I’m excited to be speaking on the Industrial Strength SEO panel on Day 2, 19th May 2009:
Industrial Strength SEO – When you’re doing SEO for a big site – or tens or hundreds of sites – you’ve got to bring in the big tools, lots of organizational skills and knowhow to integrate SEO with the ongoing web production processes and employee thinking in general. This session examines both the technical and organisational challenges of running huge web sites that must be search friendly.
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Boxee is a Linux or MAC based media player capable of playing not only your home media collection but also internet TV channels such as BBC iPlayer. Want to install Boxee into Ubuntu Linux?
Here’s how:
First, register on the Boxee registration page. Choose a username and password and enter a few (very basic details). Boxee requires that you validate your email address, so after you’ve completed the registration form, go check your email inbox. I loved the confirmation email – here’s an extract:
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We’ve all seen hacked Wordpress blogs. Right? Most SEO’s and techies in our beloved industy certainly have, but Wordpress blog hacking is a relatively unknown subject to the less tech savvy blogger and, unbeknownst to them, their cherished weblogs are linking out to some pretty disgusting parts of the Internet…
About a year ago, I was looking at some rankings for the keyphrase “airline tickets”. Kicking around page 2 in Google.com, I saw a result that instantly stood out as anomalous. Looking at the backlinks, it was pretty clear that an entire legion of Wordpress blogs had been hacked to link out to a spam site. One of those Wordpress blogs belonged to Rob Da Bank, a DJ who I (sort of) worship, so I contacted him:
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