Tweet Google says it has made significant changes to the way in which their algo works to favour fresh content, which they say will affect 35% of searches. The official Google announcement says:  We completed our Caffeine web indexing system last year, which allows us to crawl and index the web for fresh content quickly [...]

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Tweet Back in February 2010 I spent a weekend in Valencia to meet up with Graham Hunt and Dom Goucher, two fellow Brits living in Spain who I’d met at Ed Dale’s “Coming Come” conference in Manchester the previous November. The weekend was partially social (Arctic Monkeys gave a free gig) but partially about brainstorming [...]

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Tweet A recent experience has got me thinking about good web design and how poorly it is understood even by many professional web designers. The problem stems from thinking of web design as being an aesthetic issue, and although that may be true for some websites, it is certainly not the main one; stats show [...]

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Tweet In my previous post on Link Wheels I gave an overview of how to set up a link wheel, but without providing a list of Web 2.0 properties you can use or how I go about it. So here is a list of Web 2.0 properties to get you started, but you can also [...]

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Tweet The results speak for themselves, but check out the organic traffic from Google on this site. I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it is a personal hobby niche and I’ve gone in pretty deep since April/May 2004. One of the keys to its success is the number of natural backlinks [...]

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