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Domains & DNS
Google PR update – still going
Judging by what I'm seeing the Google PR update still hasn't settled down. A couple of days ago I was seeing a clear PR of 5 on this blog, but now I see 4, while other people see 5. The only way to see what it is across all Google data centres is to use a tool like this one You can change the URL to your own :) … [Read more...] about Google PR update – still going
Meta content – where is it?
John had posted some interesting statistics based on his crawling of the IE namespace: Websites With Title, Keywords and Description: 10460 That's out of a corpus of 36198 domains!! So, if John's stats are true, and I have no reason to doubt him, approximately 66% of Irish websites have no meta content. Some SEO experts may say that meta content is not as important as it used … [Read more...] about Meta content – where is it?
Google PR update
It looks like there is a serious update of the Google PR at present. Since earlier today reports of new page ranks (PR) have been subject of discussion. Of course the update does not happen instantly across all data centres, so it is not that strange to find some people reporting a higher PR than others for the same site. The burning question for many though is whether PR is as … [Read more...] about Google PR update
Do we look stupid? Market research gone wrong
Market research is an important exercise. You should know: What people have What people would like to have What people need (not the same as above) What is on offer (in the market) How it is offered There's probably a more scientific way of presenting those ideas, but you should get the general idea. In the hosting market it is not uncommon to contact competitors to seek … [Read more...] about Do we look stupid? Market research gone wrong