ColinCochrane

Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google Other
In a feat of incredible cunning, Colin Cochrane stole the Google Algorithm from Matt Cutts, the popular Googler who recently was promoted to moral compass at the search giant. The following pictures show the daring feat as it happened at the SEOmoz read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: ColinCochrane 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google Searching
Just like the title says, this may be the greatest sitelink that Google has ever generated for a site.

Be warned, however, because it is quite offensive. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 279 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Defining custom error pages is a convenient way to show users a friendly page when they encounter an HTTP error such as a 404 Not Found, or a 500 Server Error. Unfortunately ASP.NET handles custom error pages by responding with a 302 Temporary redir read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 303 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Water Cooler
When it comes to a topic as complex as web standards and interoperability it is crucial that one takes the time to considers all factors, and not just their perspective..." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
“Don’t Break the Web” is a rule that the Internet Explorer development team has been applied to six major versions of IE over the past decade, with each of these versions seeing the application of this rule in a different way.

It is a rule may a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 312 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: SEM Industry
From Jim Hedger:

"This post takes a step away from the business of search engine optimization and marketing but it covers an important facet of the environment, the search-media. This is an issue that is obviously near and dear to my heart. I wri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 315 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Social Media
The increasing interest of the search engine marketing community in social media has resulted in more and more discussion about how to get in on the "traffic goldrush". As an SEO, I appreciate the enthusiasm in exploring new methods for maximizing read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 327 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Networking
One of the great features of Sphinn is being able to list your other social networking profiles in your Sphinn profile.

We can often forget to actually check this useful information about our fellow users as our attention is usually focused on read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 327 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Blogging
If you have a blog that is even moderately popular then you have likely fallen victim to some form of content scraping. Ever since it became possible to earn money through ads on a website there have been people trying to find ways to cheat the sys read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 338 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
Being a successful web developer requires constant effort to refine your existing abilities while expanding your skill-set to include the new technologies that are continually released, so when I first started my job as a search engine optimization read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 341 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
In my first post on this subject, I demonstrated how you can significantly reduce the size of a web document by simply moving style definitions externally and getting rid of a table-based layout. In this instalment I will look at the practice of sem read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
The use of XHTML in the context of SEO is a matter of debate. The consensus tends to be that using XHTML falls into the category of optimization efforts that provide certain benefits for the site as a whole (extensibility, ability to use XSL transf read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google Webmaster Tools seems to be having some problems today with its web site verification process. Many of the sites we have listed in Webmaster Tools are no longer “verified” and the problem is reported as being due to “server timeout” and “doma read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 369 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
When it comes to designing and developing a web site the load time is one consideration that is often ignored, or is an afterthought once the majority of the design and structure is in place. While high-speed internet connections are becoming incre read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google SEO
There has been a lot of controversy in the world of SEO as of late, mostly centering around the PageRank penalties that Google has been handing out to enforce their paid-link policies. The members of the SEO community, who do enjoy to voice their op read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 385 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I have combed through thousands upon thousands of client's HTML documents since I began working in web development, and even more in my career as an SEO. Much of this time is spent fixing invalid markup, shaving off unneeded code, and generally doi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 388 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
In an ASP.NET application the web.sitemap is very convenient tool for managing the site's structure, especially when used with an asp:Menu control. One aspect of the web.sitemap that is often overlooked is the ability to add custom attributes to the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 390 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
One of the greatest time-savers in web development is the use of dynamic pages to serve up database driven content. The most common examples of which are content management systems and product information pages. More times than not these pages hin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 397 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google SEO
Looks like Google might be up to something as link data has been going missing across sites in Google Webmaster Tools. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 414 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Water Cooler
SEOs around the world reacted with smugness, with the recent news that a California judge has allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed over the use (or lack thereof) of image alt attributes. This crime against HTML validation was perpetrated by Tar read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 416 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Google SEO
It’s not often that the big three give anything away regarding ‘on page’ optimization, but yesterday in the Google webmaster central blog, the “snippet team” outlined several simple ways to improve your web pages ’snippets’ as they appear in search read more »
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