SEO

Ever wonder how many websites a country hosts? HosterStats.com has mapped all com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia websites and matched them, by IP address to the countries where they are hosted. The results are broken down by TLD. The cumulative gTLD (com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia) figures are also available and like the map of .COM websites, these are also broken down...
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Bing (Microsoft’s Search Engine) is wrong about large website sitemaps going by its latest blogpost. It uses all the right buzzwords and even a Social Science number for emphasis but it misses one fundamental thing with large websites and their sitemaps – the importance of the lastmod element. The main problem with extra-large sitemaps is...
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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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