Recalling NickFitz's low opinion of the Telegraph web site, I notice it has taken to automatically refreshing its pages every 5 minutes (which I'm sure it never used to). Sounds like a stunt to artificially boost the page view count.
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Where was Nick slagging it off?
I know I'm getting chucked off with the reporting there.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away. -
Originally posted by Sysman View PostWhere was Nick slagging it off?
I know I'm getting chucked off with the reporting there.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostWhere was Nick slagging it off?Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostHere mainly, although I've mentioned it in a couple of other places tooWork in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostCrikey, that second link shows that Google has already found the first post in this thread!
The whole "chutney spoon" explosion was a good opportunity to see just how rapidly Google can index CUK and ramp it to the top of the results for suitable searchesComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostYep - they take less than ten minutes sometimes
The whole "chutney spoon" explosion was a good opportunity to see just how rapidly Google can index CUK and ramp it to the top of the results for suitable searches
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostAll hail the famous-web-search-engine.
Then I realised that what I'd written was a) off-topic, and b) too good to waste on a post in GeneralComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI originally wrote a whole bunch of stuff relating to SEO, the history of Google's update speed, and how it's increased over the last few years; I went back to 2004 (although I could have gone further - anybody else remember the googledance?).
Then I realised that what I'd written was a) off-topic, and b) too good to waste on a post in GeneralComment
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostPublish, sir!
OK, here's as far as I got before I decided to snip it; remember, this is just work-in-progress, and therefore ends abruptly; it also doesn't include some stuff I had the links for but hadn't filled in yet:
The days of drawn out experiments related to terms like "nigritude ultramarine" are behind us.
I remember reading Anil's post at the time (2004) and reckoning that he was spot on with his assessment of the so-called "SEO experts" - many of them are just filthy spammers.
Interestingly, though, companies such as Yahoo! employ their own teams of SEO experts - people working on non-search-related projects (e.g. Answers, flickr, Upcoming) have no access to Y!'s in-house search mavens for legal reasons, so they are just as concerned with SEO as everybody else.
At the end of the day, it always comes down to the same thing: provide useful and relevant content, and publish new (useful and relevant) content reasonably frequently (regularly isn't actually necessary, but leaving things to rot for a couple of years won't help).
Oh, and make sure your <title> tags contain meaningful descriptions of the content, although the algorithms are smart enough to route around fripperies such as the site's main title being included (and that can actually help).
After that, meaningful URLS are always better than the kind of stuff Microsoft products like ASP.NET come up with by default - remember that although Amazon has dreadful URLs yet still ranks high, that's because it's Amazon and gets linked to by everybody, not because its URLs help it.
Same with the MSDN library - seriously, are Microsoft's technologies so crap that the best name their own people can come up with for a page entitled (to pick one example at random) "max Method (Windows Scripting - JScript)" is dxcwky7y(VS.85).aspx?Comment
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