Around four years ago trademark policy with WordPress was confusing. Automattic registered the WordPress trademark and began sending out letters to domain owners who provided goods and services around the WordPress brand. They actually started sending out these letters and emails before the trademark was even published for opposition. Matt has just announced that … [Read more...]
Technorati Changes From An Expert Perspective
I am always in 2 minds to write anything about Technorati but ultimately the changes to the site today are extremely significant, and I had to balance that against my ability to offer suitable commentary. This post covers the more technical changes to Technorati – I have also now posted about the changes to Technorati from a users perspective Since I started … [Read more...]
Google Double or Indented Listings
While I gain tons of Google indented listings for money terms, and I can achieve them quite often in minutes, rather than days, they are almost always achieved using a few simple steps. Get one page indexed and ranking Write a second post linking to the first (which will also then trackback to the second page) Use the same primary keyword in both posts The second … [Read more...]
Sphinn All Unsphunn
I had intended my next post to be a small tribute to the great articles that have been selected as finalists for this year’s Semmys, with links to all the finalists and a subtle link through to the SEO category where one of my articles was selected as a finalist. But that would be gaming the system based upon whatever level of popularity I have achieved within the Online … [Read more...]
Open Social Web: Google + Feedburner Really Is Bad For RSS
I honestly laughed when I saw the new “Open Social Web” Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn’t to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term… Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others. 10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it’s easy to share feeds could be killing the … [Read more...]