Malcolm Coles Gets Personal

Malcom Coles is as honest as the day is long, question asking, answer giving all round helpful SEO. In Malcolms words;

“It’s mostly about reviews (good and bad), SEO, WordPress, newspapers, how to do things and the internet in general.”

I found Malcolm through twitter and i have enjoyed reading his posts so much i thought it was only right and proper that you guys get to see his posts via rss as well.

Google and Apple eat each others spelling corrections - Thu, 02 Sep 2010
My iPad and iPhone autocorrect "Van Persie" to "Van Perdue". Clearly Arsenal's striker isn't well known enough at Apple HQ. If as a result you end up searching for Van Perdie, Google asks if you mean Van Persie. Auto spelling has eaten itself.

BBC follows through on promise of dofollowed links to bloggers - Wed, 01 Sep 2010
If you add "nofollow" to a link (in the HTML code), it tells search engines to ignore the link - so the site you link to gets no benefit from the link. Last December, the BBC replied to a blog post of mine promising to link to bloggers without using dofollow as part of its new Buzz tool. They've now apparently kept that promise.

Want an SEO job? Check out the Daily Mail's robots.txt file ... - Tue, 24 Aug 2010
Want a job as SEO manager at the Daily Mail? Check out their robots.txt file (just don't tell them you saw it here ...) in the middle it says: # August 12th, MailOnline are looking for a talented SEO Manager so if you found this then you're the kind of techie we need!

Google treating brand names in search terms as site: searches? - Wed, 18 Aug 2010
It looks to me at the moment that if you do a search for some term (EG football) and the name of a big brand, Google will treat most of the first page as if you had searched for that term and done a site:bigbrand.com search (the site: operator will make google show results only from that site). So before, if you searched for Guardian football I'm fairly sure you only saw a couple of results from the Guardian. Now if I do that search, all 10 of the first page of results are Guardian pages.

Yahoo trending - better than Google Trends UK - Tue, 17 Aug 2010
I pointed out last week how awful Google Trends UK was - because it was full of American results. In some good news, Yahoo's trending list seems a lot better (although it doesn't give much in the way of explanation of how it's put together).

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