It’s Worth It

The big G has decieded to crawl JavaScript links now which is means that loads more pages will be indexed as a result. Im not totally convinced that this is a good idea as this could mean that many sites will face duplicate content issues.

I have created a page with such a link to see if it gets indexed, fingers crossed.

The other day I read a blog post detailing that ego surfing is ever increasing and users are frequently disappointed with the search results and more commonly that they do not appear on the first page of google.

Google already knows that there is a large number of surfers searching for name specific queries. Google has now released a new feature enabling users to create their own google profile which will rank in the search results. Unfortunately profiles are only being pulled into the .com version of google, and you will also need to be signed into your google account before you will see profiles ranking.

Even though I have created my own profile to see this first hand I am not convinced that it is totally secure to have personal details being available via a google search. You can enter as much or as little as you wish, but I still think that all of this public information may lead to a few identity fraud cases.

This is definatelly a step closer towards the dark side for Google.

Through my job you might say that I am very much into search engine analysis (seo) and tools. Today was good day, I have discovered Analytics App for the iPhone. It basically allows you to view data from your google analytics account on your mobile phone. As if I didn’t use my phone enough! Obviously it does not have all of the features that the web based interface has, but it is very useful.

One amazing feature it boasts is that you can view data from the same day! I’m still not sure at present on what delay the is on viewing live data, but I will probably make a post when I find out.

I have spent the best part of 1 hour trying to figure out how to get the permalinks to show ‘Day and name’ without the site giving me 404 errors. After some quick Googling I found a great page which gave me the exact rules to use in my .htaccess file for wordpress permalinks Once I used the rules, it worked first time.

Jeff Starr, you da man