Analyzing search engine rankings by human traffic
Recently I’ve discussed ranking checkers at several places, and I’m quite astonished that folks still see some value in ranking reports. Frankly, ranking reports are –in most cases– a useless waste of...
View ArticleUpdate your crawler detection: MSN/Live Search announces msnbot/1.1
Fabrice Canel from Live Search announces significant improvements of their crawler today. The very much appreciated changes are: HTTP compression The revised msnbot supports gzip and deflate as...
View ArticleThe most sexy browsers screw your analytics
Now that IE is quite unusable due to the lack of websites that support its non-standard rendering, and the current FireFox version suffers from various maladies, more and more users switch to browsers...
View ArticleHard facts about URI spam
I stole this pamphlet’s title (and more) from Google’s post Hard facts about comment spam for a reason. In fact, Google spams the Web with useless clutter, too. You doubt it? Read on. That’s the URI...
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