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Jan 15, 2015

Quickly identify thin & duplicate content for Google Panda

Rob Hammond in bloghammond

Jul 10, 2013

Export Webmaster Tools Crawl Stats

Google’s Webmaster Tools offers some fairly handy crawl stats charts, which can be useful in diagnosing crawl issues that Google has with your site.

How accurate the stats are is up for debate (as with all WMT data), but sometimes an…

Rob Hammond in bloghammond

Jan 25, 2013

Historical use of keywords in URLs in Google’s results

I was just going through some old work files and came across some research I did in 2010 and 2011 but completely forgot about until now. It was a fairly straightforward analysis of the occurrence of keywords in domains, sub-domains and…

Rob Hammond in bloghammond

Aug 6, 2012

(not provided) traffic hits >50% of Firefox traffic

As briefly touched upon in a previous post straight after the launch of Firefox 14 (ie the advent of Google’s SSL search being on by default), the amount of (not provided) traffic has increased across an aggregate of a number of our sites.

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Jul 19, 2012

Not provided traffic jumps as Firefox 14 lands

I was prompted today to upgrade to Firefox 14, which was “offered to release channel users” 2 days ago. Looking at the release notes, this is the dreaded release for SEOs where Google SSL has now become the default search engine.

Rob Hammond in bloghammond

Oct 21, 2011

Less Google keyword data = more black hat activity

This post purely reflects my own personal opinion, and does not reflect those of my employer or colleagues. For those faint of heart, warning: contains traces of black hat material.