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Google Answering Questions in Autocomplete 5 Jul 2013 | 08:47 pm
Well this is something I haven’t seen before, Google answering questions in the autocomplete. I find it quite strange how Google is showing these types of answers from only typing in 3 characters...
WordPress Hacking Attempt With Visualisation 20 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
Well Tuesday was a fun evening watching someone relentlessly try and hack into the blog. Thankfully, they didn’t get in. Seriously though – why? Go & waste your time somewhere else instead of trying t...
Google Auto Suggest Listing Websites You Have Never Visited 5 Apr 2013 | 09:18 pm
#WTF I don’t think I need to say anything other than that and show the screenshot below – where the auto suggest on Google is listing websites that I have never visited before; I’ve seen this be...
Google Testing Grey Navigation Bar 26 Feb 2013 | 11:48 pm
Just spotted that Google are testing a grey navigation bar instead of the usual black one. It makes the browser look a lot more like what you would expect to see while using your computer’s file syste...
My Top 10 Most Popular Posts from 2012 10 Jan 2013 | 07:16 pm
We are now well on our way into 2013, but looking back at 2012, what were the most popular blog posts on the website during this time? Top 10 viewed pages in 2012 The list below shows the pages whi...
17 Of My 2013 SEO Predictions 9 Jan 2013 | 06:36 pm
At the beginng of 2012 I made some quite accurate SEO predictions so I thought I’d have another go this year and see how accurate they are again at the end of the year. Here are a few predictions that...
How To Return Multiple Nodes Using XPathOnUrl 18 Dec 2012 | 02:30 pm
XPathOnURL is an amazing function within the amazing SEO Tools plugin for Excel that can scrape specific pieces of content that you need when entering in a URL and the XPath of the content that you wa...
How Accurate Were My 2012 SEO Predictions? 17 Dec 2012 | 04:00 pm
Back at the start of 2012 I predicted 13 things that would happen in the world of SEO over the next 12 months, looking back on these let’s see how many of these came true. 1. Social Signals Gain Impor...
How To Get The Domain Name From a URL in Excel 17 Dec 2012 | 03:00 pm
Often when analysing backlinks it is important to de-duplicate rows and rows of data into some kind of useful list of domains that you can work with. Often this can be quite a tiresome tasks but with ...
How to Scrape the HREF Attribute Using XPathOnURL SEO Tools 5 Oct 2012 | 02:00 pm
The joys of XPath and SEO Tools for Excel. Here we are going to talk through how to scrape the HREF attribute using the =XPathOnURL function as this is often needed when you want to scrape the actual ...
