MSN are apparently still unable to fix the bug I found, they seem to have taken down all Reporter sites for a while, yet the Dutch one is working for me right now, and the Belgian-French one is as well... Kind of weak though, don't you think? It's still possible to vote multiple times on [...]
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Categories: Offtopic
Google de-Personalized Search for Firefox and IE7
I've done it myself, I've created an OpenSearch plugin which adds &pws=0 to the query and thus shows you the clean results. This plugin easily allows you to search without having personalized searchresults, without logging out of Google. It'll work with Firefox 2+ and IE7.
Here it is: Google Search Plugin without Personalized Search.
Update: it now [...]
Categories: SEO
De-personalising Google Searchresults
James e-mailed me that he has created a bookmarklet which you can click on if you've done a search, and found out that you're still logged in. It will then do the same search again with &pws=0 added to the query, giving the "normal" results, as mentioned on SEL.
Thanks James! Now someone else: fix me [...]
Categories: SEO
Yahoo SiteExplorer web vs. API: answers from Yahoo!
In response to my post about the Yahoo API giving the "wrong" results, I got an email from a Yahoo! rep, and we've been emailing back and forth a few times since. When I showed him the difference in the numbers given through the API and the Web interface for css3.info (I've updated my [...]
Categories: SEO
Search Engine Friendly vs Search Engine Optimized
This discussion has been around for ages, but here in the Netherlands, more and more webdesign companies are claiming they can do proper SEO. Now I'm not arguing that a lot of the work SEO's have to do sometimes, is caused by webdesigners who don't know what the hell they're doing. It's a good thing [...]
Categories: SEO
302-hijacks and domain name spam
Aaron reported halfway april that 302 hijacking is back, and today, I came across the most horrible example I've seen in a while. Looking at this query (for obvious reasons), my eye was caught by the feedburner.name result in there. Since the title reflects another URL, I was already suspecting some nasty stuff...
It's a nice [...]
Categories: SEO
"Plumbing the web" - duplicate content issues at Google Webmaster Central
The girls and boys over at Google Webmaster Central have been busy on the Google Developer Day. Now that's all nice, but when I was searching for something on their blog for "nofollow", I got 4 results:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/come-see-us-at-ses-london-and-hear.html
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/rss.xml
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Now as you can see, 3 out of the 4 results here, are feeds... All these three feeds show [...]
Categories: SEO
Greyhat and Blackhat SERM techniques
I was thinking a bit more about Search Engine Reputation Management, because I'll be speaking on the subject at the Digital Marketing Event next week. When I was reading a lot trying to find some "new" ways to do SERM, I sort of got caught with some ideas in my head which I wanted [...]
Categories: SEO
Search Engine Reputation Management: make it look natural
Search Engine Reputation Management (SERM), is becoming more and more of a hot item in Europe as well it seems, and I'm seeing quite a few people saying pretty smart stuff about it. Having done a bit of it myself, there's one thing I think a lot of people are missing. People are boasting their [...]
Categories: SEO