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Water Cooler / Re: Shawn Hogan - Yikes
« on: May 05, 2013, 01:45:08 PM »I don't know these guys, but I am glad it is getting some attention. Hopefully it discourages others from cookie stuffing.
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Traffic / Re: how long before Big G gives indented slots in the serps?
« on: February 27, 2013, 01:24:20 PM »
I've been seeing that as quite common since the Jan 23rd update at least.
Once you drill past the 2nd page, a handful of sites tend to dominate the next 7-8 pages.
Once you drill past the 2nd page, a handful of sites tend to dominate the next 7-8 pages.
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Hardware & Technology / Re: WebP the new web image format
« on: February 10, 2013, 11:28:54 AM »
Astonished. Google want to cut their bandwidth bill by creating a new image format?
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Web Development / Re: Google Plus profile to show in SERPs?
« on: February 05, 2013, 05:28:54 PM »
Cheers - finally got it sorted. 
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Water Cooler / Re: OK, who's linkbaiting?
« on: February 03, 2013, 11:09:12 AM »
You'd think it would be outright blinking obvious. The Sun apparently doesn't think so. Oh, lordy...
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Web Development / Re: Magento vs Woocommerce
« on: January 14, 2013, 12:28:49 PM »
Not busy enough with traffic enough for that.
However, plenty of experience with Wordpress on busy sites before and never had a problem, so long as it was hosted on my own server. My shop is.
However, plenty of experience with Wordpress on busy sites before and never had a problem, so long as it was hosted on my own server. My shop is.
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Marketing / Re: Author rank - making it scale
« on: January 10, 2013, 06:20:13 PM »
I thought only the spammers and media whores had author pages set up?
Seem to be quite a few Google+ votes being bought at the moment regardless.
Seem to be quite a few Google+ votes being bought at the moment regardless.
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Traffic / Google tries to hide UK results - again
« on: November 22, 2012, 01:24:24 PM »
Looks like Google are back to trying to denigrate the UK user experience, by hiding the link to UK results in a drop down menu - therefore subjecting most of us to good old US results, headed by Wikipedia.
Screenshot attached.
Dear Google: just because you're confident about your IP targeting, doesn't make it relevant to your users!! Your general UK IP targeting for local search is extremely poor, too, k, thanks.
EDIT: Oh, looks like I can't add attachments. And the post goes into something of a loop if you try and post one as you can't edit the attachments box, and you can post because there's a URL there.
Screenshot attached.
Dear Google: just because you're confident about your IP targeting, doesn't make it relevant to your users!! Your general UK IP targeting for local search is extremely poor, too, k, thanks.
EDIT: Oh, looks like I can't add attachments. And the post goes into something of a loop if you try and post one as you can't edit the attachments box, and you can post because there's a URL there.
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Web Development / Re: Paypal account restrictions, anyone any experience?
« on: November 12, 2012, 12:20:18 PM »
Basically, anti-money laundering. Happened to me a couple of times with different accounts, but doesn't take too long to fix.
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Water Cooler / Re: FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
« on: November 02, 2012, 12:40:08 PM »
Are you sure it's a fight? Looks very homo-erotic flicking through here.
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Water Cooler / Re: Jim Boykin Purchases WebMasterWorld (WMW)
« on: October 20, 2012, 05:26:28 PM »
Hm, seems a strange time to be adding forums - thought these were generally suffering post Panda/Penguin?
And three forums with such a potential overlap? Sounds like overkill and a headache running them as separate entities and more so if he ever considers merging them.
And three forums with such a potential overlap? Sounds like overkill and a headache running them as separate entities and more so if he ever considers merging them.
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Water Cooler / Re: Italy
« on: October 20, 2012, 05:21:53 PM »
Parlo un po d'Italiano.
Was in Rome last month and loved the language especially.
Is Sant'Agata Feltria the small hilly town in the photos? Looks amazing.
Was in Rome last month and loved the language especially.
Is Sant'Agata Feltria the small hilly town in the photos? Looks amazing.
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Economics & Investing / Re: Goog stock price hammered
« on: October 20, 2012, 05:11:54 PM »
Damn. And there was me hoping Google was finally getting some kind of payback for screwing over the small webmasters who made them.
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Traffic / Dear Google: the iPod is not an iPhone
« on: October 09, 2012, 11:57:53 AM »
Whenever I search for news on the iPod 5th generation, Google keeps giving me stories on the iPhone instead:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&biw=1600&bih=750&tbs=ctr%3AcountryUK|countryGB&q=ipod+release+date&oq=ipod+release+date&gs_l=serp.3..0i7l9j0.50678.50844.0.51131.2.2.0.0.0.0.103.202.1j1.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.odnHP7u_DJg
Think that pretty much sums Google up at present.
Bing, meanwhile, seems to know the difference:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=ipod+release+date&qs=n&form=QBLH&filt=all&pq=ipod+release+date&sc=1-16&sp=-1&sk=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&biw=1600&bih=750&tbs=ctr%3AcountryUK|countryGB&q=ipod+release+date&oq=ipod+release+date&gs_l=serp.3..0i7l9j0.50678.50844.0.51131.2.2.0.0.0.0.103.202.1j1.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.odnHP7u_DJg
Think that pretty much sums Google up at present.
Bing, meanwhile, seems to know the difference:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=ipod+release+date&qs=n&form=QBLH&filt=all&pq=ipod+release+date&sc=1-16&sp=-1&sk=
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Hardware & Technology / Re: hands free backup services
« on: October 05, 2012, 10:51:15 AM »
Are you looking to backup the entire account, ie, files and databases, or just databases?
I have something in place for my most important sites that emails copies of the database every week, which goes straight to a dedicated Gmail account.
Never had a problem with Hostgator - been with them for years - they've had a few rough patches from expanding too fast, but have felt settled for a long time now.
I have something in place for my most important sites that emails copies of the database every week, which goes straight to a dedicated Gmail account.
Never had a problem with Hostgator - been with them for years - they've had a few rough patches from expanding too fast, but have felt settled for a long time now.