http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google today announced a new feature designed to give people greater control over the results they see. Do you think a lower ranked result is more useful? It's easy to promote it to the top, delete a result you're not interested in, or comment on results. This is the logical next ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/21112008/346672/of-course-google-have-released-searchwiki-more-user-interaction-more-relevancy/ Google Analytics have added a slight tweak to their tracking code in the past 2 days to include a try catch block, which hopefully will result in any problems arising with contacting their server will not stop the page from loading. The small tweak adds a try catch block at ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/13112008/346665/new-version-of-the-google-analytics-tracking-code/ No they don't have to have the www in there although it depends on how you display the URL to the end user. If you want the user to eventually end up at the www. version of the address then by not having it in there you're just making Google ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/12112008/346660/do-my-sitemaps-need-www/ What importance should be put on the category that Google defines your website in? If you take the Google Ad Planner it categorises a website in a given category related to your sector. Are you unlikely to rank against what you perceive to be a close competitor but to what ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/10112008/346657/google-categorisationthe-impact/ I always find it useful to give visual examples when giving SEO training so I built a tool to display what effect the key fields that editors fill in will represent when they are surfaced in the search engines. This is a very basic version of a tool i created ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/10112008/346651/new-google-seo-tool/ I have been receiving a lot of traffic recently related to people asking about free 301 redirects for their related domain names in their 123-Reg account. The redirect which 123-Reg actually implements is in fact a 302. The only way to implement a 301 on a domain name is to ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/10112008/346648/123-reg-dont-offer-301-redirects-on-their-domain-names/ Advanced Segmentation Beta is starting to appear in Google Analytics accounts in the UK. Its very sketchy at the moment and even across different machines in the same office are showing different versions of Google Analytics. http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/04112008/346618/advanced-segmentation-beta-live-in-uk-google-analytics/ Citys.info switched its servers on for business on Friday with a launch expected to challenge the best of the local guide platforms. The platform says it can be launched on any town or city (currently only in the UK) in a matter of hours. The internet franchise can be applied ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/01112008/346610/citysinfo-internet-franchise-launches/ Google's slowly implementing the "Event Tracking" menu into its analytics accounts. I first came across this on one of my older analytics accounts even though we haven't implemented the function. Even with accounts without the option and with websites that have had the function implemented it does not seem to ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/08102008/346596/google-analytics-event-tracking/ The long awaited arrival of the Quality Score “improvements” on Google Adwords was announced on the Official AdWords Blog yesterday morning well today it looks as if it went live, Adwords today updated its quality score to give you a rating out of 10, at last giving a numerical ... http://www.leewoodman.co.uk/blog/16092008/346590/adwords-quality-score-now-rated-out-of-10/