I finally bit the bullet and brought some new hard ware with the aim of setting up a small home lab for the purposes of learning hadoop.… Read more “Setting up a home hadoop lab #1 starting out”
Problems with Googles parsing of in google sitemaps
Found an interesting problem with XML Sitemaps and the way Google seems to handle the lastmod time. The sitemap protocol uses W3C Time as the standard. I… Read more “Problems with Googles parsing of in google sitemaps”
Link builder Chutzpah or Spearlink Spam Attack
I work for RBI in the inhouse SEO team and we recently received a email that was part of a link building campaign they had obviously scraped… Read more “Link builder Chutzpah or Spearlink Spam Attack”
Googles April Algorithem Changes Panda3.5 19 April and Penguin 24th April
Google have released an number of different algorithm update this month the following is a brief description of the changes Google have made in April. I did… Read more “Googles April Algorithem Changes Panda3.5 19 April and Penguin 24th April”
Best Adsense Fail or Scary Devil Nunnery Recruiting – and a SEO Fail on jobs.guardian.co.uk
Whilst perusing the Guardians job section to analyse the platform they use – I both found a number of ways to completely mess up that entire section… Read more “Best Adsense Fail or Scary Devil Nunnery Recruiting – and a SEO Fail on jobs.guardian.co.uk”
HPCC – High Performance Computer Cluster Open Sourced
I love my Job I get to play with large amounts of data and some cool new cutting edge cloud based toys such as Map Reduce and… Read more “HPCC – High Performance Computer Cluster Open Sourced”
Panda Update Hits the UK and All English Queries
It looks like the infamous Panda Google update has arrived outside of the USA. According to Google the Panda update (some times called Farmer/Panda) is meant to… Read more “Panda Update Hits the UK and All English Queries”
