Monthly Archive for April, 2010

SEO: Belfast?

Published on 25 April 2010 in Belfast and Uncategorized. 5 Comments

Local rag the Belfast Telegraph is Google gaming.

evil mediaThey’ve set up a ‘guide’ that contains regurgitated articles from across the web with the added SEO magic dust of adding ‘Belfast’ to the end of each article title. Other regions are doing the same thing with the exact same articles. Compare Kent Online with Belfast er, online. Or Londonderry for that matter.

This particular form of content spamming, or spamdexing is known as article spinning and although Google permit it, they normally require linking back to the original source. But…
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SEO No Go

Published on 24 April 2010 in Facebook and web. 0 Comments

facebook seoI get asked quite a bit if sites can use their facebook page to create inbound links to their homepage for Search Engine Optimisation purposes.

First off I point out that although FB Pages are public, Facebook adds rel=”nofollow” to all external links posted on users & pages walls, meaning no benefit for seo.
However I have seen a number of SEO-sites claim that adding one of the many RSS feed apps to their fb page and configuring it to auto publish their target site feed will result in the fb link juice flowing back to them.

not so.
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Irish Moss: A Review

Published on 23 April 2010 in international. 0 Comments

So there’s a corner shop up the road run by a family of Kurds and as well as being open everytime I walk past (it’s got to be practically 24 hour) they do a disparate range of foodstuffs from around the world.

One such item is a drink called Irish Moss. From Jamaica, it inexplicably comes in peanut butter flavour. In a tin (of the canned tomato type) although you do get a quaint ring pull.

Irish Moss Front Elevation
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Friday Linkdump

Published on 2 April 2010 in linkdump. 0 Comments


the latest I Am Fighter

whatever happened to http://datatables.org/

Deadlock immunity is a new paradigm in autonomous software mimicking natural systems: An equipped machine records a deadlock pattern, uploads this vaccine to the cloud and pending staged verification the entire network benefits from it. Dimmunix is an open source implementation.

any Belfastards report to the 2009 Feltron effort?
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