One of the questions we are often asked is how we track various social media sites users and their interaction with sites the answer is in a variety of ways but here is just one of the techniques we use with Google Analytics. Read the rest of this entry »
The first round of beta’s for Drupal 6 is out and its better the ever, you can grab the code from Drupal main site at drupal.org and read all the new features from the release notice.
After eight months of development, we are proud to let you know that the first beta version of the Drupal 6.x family is released. This beta includes a tremendous number of new features and new programming APIs for both users and developers.
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta1
Sorry for the long delay I’ve not been away and have been blogging elsewhere but have gone through a period where I feel I have had nothing to say about SEO or Drupal. Part of the problem with being one in a crowd is that you need to scream to be heard unfortunately everyone else knows this as well.
Recently I decided to take a break from blogging on Venture Skills blog, not a long one just some time to refocus, while I was away I read large quantity of blog posts and discussions on SEO and I slowly dawned on me that most SEO’s are fakes. Read the rest of this entry »
Comment spam sucks, its as simple as here at Venture Skills blog we get hundreds of spam a day most are caught by Akismet but not all are. If your hosting your own blog or site then no doubt you have tried many combinations. One simple method of reducing spam is a CAPTCHA “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” These provide puzzles which are easy for a human to solve but are much more difficult for a machine. Read the rest of this entry »
We rely on knowing who is coming to our site and how they got their our conversion goals are set by this and sometimes our authentication systems rely on them but what are these concepts and how can we abuse use them.
A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. Web user agents range from web browsers to search engine crawlers (”spiders”), as well as mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities. When Internet users visit a web site, a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the server. This forms part of the HTTP request, prefixed with User-agent: or User-Agent: and typically includes information such as the application name, version, host operating system, and language. Bots, such as web crawlers, often also include a URL and/or e-mail address so that the webmaster can contact the operator of the bot.
We got a question from a concerned reader…
I have a question for you is it better to develop 1 large site or several smaller ones?
I’m preparing to develop a new ecommerce site with nearly 500 products should I create several sites?
A recent Google Webmaster blog post finally put the last nail into the coffin with regards to content substitution or to give it the demonic blackhat term Cloaking…
A technique like sIFR still lets non-Flash readers read a page, since the content/navigation is actually in the HTML — it’s just displayed by an embedded Flash object.
Source:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-uses-of-flash.html
So its ok for us to write text and then substitute that text with a flash or image file, now to be fair most SEO I think have been doing this with CSS image substitution for some time, but this is the first time that I have seen Google come out and say that its ok to use these techniques.
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With the launch of Adobe new AIR (Adobe Integrated runtime) and Google Gears it would seem the web is coming off-line, indeed you might have been surprised at launch of 2 similar applications a week apart in truth Google and Adobe have been collaborating on the data storage system used in both Gears and AIR (formally Apollo) since Apollo alpha release when it emerged it did not have any DB support.
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I know its been done to death but I thought I would bring you my take on the big thing from Google this month Google Gears for those who have been living on mars (hows the weather?) Google Gears is a small application designed to help you use Google services offline the first service to get the gears treatment is Google Reader (an RSS reader in case you missed that while on mars to!)
It works! no it really does work I’m sitting in the middle of a forest on a grey day writing this blog post (The Boss is making us do away days!) while looking through the various feeds I have in my feed reader on my windows partition, interestingly their is some differences between Mac (who install gears via a firefox extension) and windows versions with the windows version being significantly bigger. While in Offline mode Google reader performs well but you do notice the lack of search facilities more, it seems a sham that with such a powerful data set at your finger tips their is no obvious way to mine the data. Read the rest of this entry »
I have run an update to this post on my blog timnash.co.uk: Does Flash SEO still suck?
Nothing gets up the semantic web developer lobby noses more then the bane of their lives Flash. After spending months developing perfectly semantic well formed XML compliant HTML some upstart art herbet comes along and ruins their day by showing the boss his latest web site. No amounts of appeals about it won’t be searchable or accessible will help. The lure of flash is to great for many companies and while you may be saying its not accessible the boss is pointing to large corporate sites like Marks and Spencers and Starbucks are using it and ultimately you will loose the battle, but wait this story is not over the Arty farty herbert is a web designer and hasn’t got a clue what your talking about when you mention htaccess and so you end up having to actually launch this monstrous baby, sounding familiar?
Adobe Flash (formally Macromedia) is a great tool for developing highly artistic multimedia applications, it has the accessibility and searchability of a brick. If you are serious about getting organic rankings the only advice is stay away from Flash, I mean it stop reading this post it will not help!
Still here? You either failed to read my last sentence or are being forced into this satanic world so lets get on with trying to make flash searchable. Read the rest of this entry »
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