Internet

Google talks about link spam and every so often issues a FUD warning from on high or Twitter. Google is trundling off down the yellow brick road of AI irrelevance and it is driven by people who just don’t seem to understand the issue of link spam. So while the Google index turns to...
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I’ve been working on a historical links graph and database for the Irish webscape for the last few years. One thing that has become increasingly apparent is that the ordinary (Google) approach to unnatural links may have got it backwards. In engineering, you solve a problem not its effects. Google seems to be trying...
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Over 21% of active Irish websites have a link to Facebook. Only 1.33% of active Irish websites link to plus.google.com. Between Facebook and Google Plus are Twitter, Youtube and LinkedIn. This data is based on the monthly webusage survey that HosterStats runs on the Irish web. The survey covers over 325K Irish and Irish...
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With all the Google gizzard gazing in the SEO community over what is a natural link profile and what is an “unnatural” link profile, this might put things in some perspective as it is based on how link profiles grow as seen by a search engine operator. Stage 0: Website launch Minimal links – typically outbound...
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The Irish webscape is complex even though it is only approximately 350K domains in size. Not all of it is hosted on Irish IP addresses or webhosters. The website percentages below are based on a crawl and categorisation of detected Irish websites. The Active/Unclassified percentage is the core of the Irish web. Brand protection...
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There seems to be an eternal battle on the internet between those protecting their brands and those who would use those brands in domain names. While some of these brands are easier to protect given that they have trademarks in many countries and jurisdictions, the cost of registering the brand as a domain name...
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