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How Google penalises sites with too many of the same URL – Tested!

Danny — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:00:31 +0000

Last week I got an insight into how Google penalties work if you use a URL too many times in a blog entry.

In my recent article, I covered how scammers target Sedo users.

The article was included in the Google index within the hour, as it usually is for my blog, and for [...]

How to Write for Google – SEO Article #2

Danny — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:18:19 +0000

This is a continuation from: How do I get my site into Google? – SEO Article #1

SEO Article #2: “How to Write for Google“ (and some stuff about toads).

I’ll start with my usual caveat: you should write content that people would like to read, or as Google puts it: ‘Always focus [...]

How do I get my site into Google? – SEO Article #1

Danny — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:10:22 +0000

Getting your site into to Google is the easy part, getting it to appear in relevant Google searches is quite another. But let’s start with how you get your site into the world’s most popular search engine.

SEO Article #1: “How do I get my site into Google?“.

Step one: create your website before [...]

The sad truth about Olivia Dukakis, also known as Olivia Ducacus – The Internet Ghost

Danny — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:32:13 +0000

What is an Internet Ghost? A term that everyone is searching for but doesn’t actually exist. (definition by ThatDanny.com)

This posting is about an Internet Ghost called Olivia Dukakis, aka Olivia Ducacus.

It is likely that you got here because you searched for Olivia Dukakis or Olivia Ducacus. But who you were actually after is [...]

Oh dear, Google Trends #1 Hot Search today is “what to do if inside of girl gets wet”

Danny — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:03:52 +0000

Apologies in advance for this post. It is presented here for scientific reasons only…

And I kid you not. Here is the screenshot:

There seem to have been some problems with Google Trends over the last 24 hours with the content not updating for a while, and then this one rose to the [...]

Mozilla brand is strong! Mozilo’s PR is whoops! (Did I really click “Reply All”?)

Danny — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:00 +0000

If you got here through a search engine in the past few hours, you are very likely to have typed “Realty Check: Who sparked Countrywide CEO Mozilla’s “disgusting” e-mail reply?”

Yep, this is one of those geeky entries, but it does suggest that search is a great reflection of social trends. Here’s how:

When The [...]