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"What side of the fence do you sit on? Should mainstream media sites provide searchable links or - from large sites - any link is a good link?". Suggests that The Sun actually 'nofollow' their links.
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SEO humour in cartoon form. With search engine robots personified as actual robots. Cannot fail.
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"I suspect that local factors counted for more than Brown's handling of the banking crisis". No offence to Andrew Sparrow who was live blogging the election, but isn't this always the way with the press - if the Government (of any hue) do badly in a byelection it is seen as a vote of 'no confidence' in national politics and specifically in the PM. If, on the other hand, they do OK, it is seen as a result of local issues.
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From the unintentionally funny files: "I did notice that Google dropped my site from 1st for my name to about 15th for my name shortly after I started the project". For 'project', read old skool link-building scam ;-)
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Pete makes an interesting point, but I'm not entirely convinced it isn't actually Joanna's subject matter rather than brevity that generates the interest. Mind you, as a regular poster of "Here are 2,500 words I just wrote on this topic" I would say that, wouldn't I?
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"At the moment there's a sort of dynamic about when things get published, which is partly to do with when we get to work in the morning and partly to do with when they're ready to go up. There are huge questions for us on releasing content: when we release content and what that does for our traffic. We don't know the answers yet, but we are looking at that."
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"I know I shouldn’t be by now, but I am actually shocked by this headline from the Greek newspaper Avriani. On the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the US, the front page of the paper reads - 'THE END OF JEWISH DOMINION'"
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Pr0n for infographic geeks. Yay!
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"He was there because it was 'where the party is'. And, he admits, he can’t get enough of the women. He’s clearly doing a great job of attracting said women while he sits on a bench in the dead of night writing away on his laptop". Hmm, come to think of it, the
guy-with-laptop shtick didn't work for me in Miami either...
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Ooh, useful. Hat-tip to Nic Price.
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"In total, more than 4,000 children aged five and under were handed fixed-period exclusions for a variety of reasons. The data showed that 10 five-year-olds were suspended for bullying, while a further 20 were suspended for sexual misconduct".
