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Google Webmaster Verification Now Made Easier!

Mar 6th

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Welcome back. Thanks for visiting!

Google have now made the Webmaster Verification process a lot simpler. If you own a site and want multiple people to be able to view the WMT information of your site, you would have had to add multiple html files or multiple meta tags which would make the process quite a lengthy one and also more difficult to manage.

Google are now sharing the verification love which allows Webmaster to simply add a user to the WMT account to view the profile, this has to be a Google account email addres.

Simply login to your webmaster tools account and select the verification details link.

Then click add user and enter the Google verified email address of who you wish to grant access to the WMT account for the domain:

The long and short of it means less hassle for Webmasters!

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Google PageRank Update

Apr 3rd

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So it seems there has been a PageRank update this week, finally Organic Search SEO is a PR1 now!

Working on some SEO clients and happy to see that the one of my clients has seen the whole site go from PR2 to PR3.

Has anyone seen any surprising PR updates?

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Twestival – Day of the Twitter Festival

Feb 12th

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So, the day is finally here, Twestival 2009!

Today is in aid of the charity charity: water and the talk on the tweet is that over $1 million is to be raised.

I’ve also read today that the BBC and Sky News are going to be covering the London Twestival, so Twitter is really making it mainstream!

My home city of Manchester is hosting their event at the Living Room and there seems to be a great buzz going round, as well as what should be a fantastic event, there are the following prizes to be won in the charity auction:

  1. A Nintendo Wii – donated by Stardotstar
  2. An iPod touch – donated by Citypress
  3. A champagne dinner for two – donated by The Living Room
  4. A pair of first class train tickets to anywhere on the First TransPennine Express network – donated by FTPE
  5. A beautiful Pandora necklace (RRP £248) – donated by McCann Erickson
  6. Dinner for two at Nui Sicilian restaurant at The Trafford Centre  – donated by the restaurant via SKV PR
  7. Two crates of Tsingtao beer – donated by Tsingtao
  8. An annual pass to the Northern Start up 2.0 (worth £350.00) – donated by @ManojRanaweera
  9. Two fantastic handpainted glasses – Twestival theme, by artist Roz Clark – donated by Realfresh.tv
  10. A pair of 3D webcams (the mind boggles!) – donated by Tangerine PR
  11. Make up and beauty kit  – donated by McCann Erickson
  12. A white North Face women’s jacket – donated by Brazen
  13. A complete ‘love’ kit – donated by Durex
  14. Tickets for two for Chill Factore – donated by Staniforth
  15. Something fabulous from Rags to Bitches – donated by Rags to Bitches

Those that are lucky to have tickets have fun!

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Google PageRank Penalty given to Google

Feb 12th

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It has come to light over the past week or so that Google.co.jp has been caught paying bloggers to write about them to help improve their hold in the Japanese market as Yahoo are strong in Japan.

Now, as we know Google does not like link buying and has penalized sites for doing this with search ranking penalties.

To my amazement and to be honest this made me giggle, they have given themselves a PageRank penalty for link buying!

The site was previously a PR9 and now is a PR5, I don’t think it will have any real effect but certainly won’t do them any harm.

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Twestival meet ups for charity

Jan 25th

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twestival-logo1On 12th February 2009, there is a worldwide “Tweetup” to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

Twestival is organised by volunteers around the globe to raise moneyy for charity:water, over 100 cities worldwide will be hosting an event, from London to San Francisco.

The Tweetathon will happen over a 24 hour period and will bring tweeters from around the world together. Twestival began over a year ago in a one-off event in London but the power of Twitter enabled the main 40 cities to organise their events in less than 24 hours.

This should be one hell of a tweetup -I might be at the London or Manchester event so maybe see you there!

Here is the latest list:

Twestival Americas

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10 fold increase in UK Twitter traffic

Jan 21st

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Recent stats from Hitwise are showing that over the last year UK internet traffic to the most talked about website at present, Twitter, has increased 10-fold.

As one of the fastest growing websites in the UK, the stats produced by Hitwise are mearly just the traffic to the main site suggest. With the many ways to access Twitter from the simple web interface, mobile phones to third party applications such as Twitterfon, Twitterfox, Twitterfeed and more.

Twitter for those who don’t know it it’s all about (where have you been) is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows registered users (tweeple) to send and read updates from other users’ updates also know as a tweet, using text based posts, the post has a 140 character limit.

The update is displayed in the users profile page and can also be seen by users that follow that user in your twitstream.

Twitter has become an addiction or users can be referred to as twaddicts (more twitter related words available at the Twittonary) as the amount of time people spend on Twitter has trebled from ~10 minutes to half an hour.

At present the user with the most tweeple following them is the newly elected US President, Barack Obama, at time of writing he has over 140,000 followers. Other celebrities know on Twitter are Stephen Fry (>50,000), John Cleese (>30,000) and Jonathan Ross (>13,000).

Wossy has used his account to communicate with his followers since his suspension from the BBC and is using the service to validate bogus accounts created to impersonate real life celebrities. He has also revealed that he will mention Twitter on his comeback show which has Stephen Fry as a guest, which airs on the 23rd.

There are a host of useful Twitter related resources to find information; I have listed a few of my favourites:

· Twitterfox – Firefox Plugin

· Twitterfon – iPhone App

· TwitterCounter

· Twitter Search

· Twitpic

More can be found at Traffikd.

As far as optimising for Twitter, there is a 5 steps to Twitter success guide on SEOptimise which is a useful read.

So enough tweeting from me for now, feel free to drop by for more twambles from me in the future and don’t forget to follow me @d3l80y!

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Don’t know how to create iPhone Screenshots?

Dec 29th

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I recently received an iPhone at work and whilst playing around on the internet looking for apps and so on, i have seen many screen grabs of the phone in use, so i wondered how do you do that?

There is a built in feature on the iPhone, but it must be running the 2.0 firmware or above to be able to take screenshots.

Taking the screenshot:

Navigate the iPhone to the screen you want to create an image of.

While holding the Home button, press and release the Sleep/Wake buttonYour screen will flash letting you know that the screenshot was taken.

Navigate to your Camera Roll library (Photos)

The most recent image should be the screencapture you just created

That’s it! I didn’t stumble across this on my own. Credit goes to Make Magazine & On a Mac.

This is a sample of the screenshot of the home page of my iPhone.

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Welcome

Dec 14th

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Welcome to my new blog.

You will be able to read about my thoughts on SEO (search engine optimisation), social media and all things internet related.

Enjoy!

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