By Sam Langdon on June 8, 2011
Google, Bing and Yahoo! have recently joined forces to work with schema.org to agree on a convention designed to improve understanding of the structure of different types of data (e.g. books, films, recipes) on websites so they can be shown in search engine result pages. Data Types There are a large set of new data [...]
Posted in Content, Technical Architecture, Tools | Tagged HTML5, rich snippets, schema.org, semantic web, W3C
By Sam Langdon on August 25, 2010
An easily overlooked, but important part of SEO is creating compliant markup (HTML) that can be read easily by search engines – and of course browsers. I’ve recently come across this W3C cheatsheet that provides a rather handy searchable quick reference to W3C compliant markup: http://www.w3.org/2009/cheatsheet/ As summarised by W3C: The W3C Cheat Sheet is an open source [...]
Posted in Technical Architecture
By Sam Langdon on August 22, 2010
This post is a little off track, but after spending quite some time trying to figure a technical problem out, I thought it might help out another lost soul, so I’m posting under Technical Architecture. If you need to use an OLE style connection string to connect to a SQL Server database (for example, you’re [...]
Posted in Technical Architecture
By Sam Langdon on June 20, 2010
It’s been a while since I posted anything, due to various other commitments, so I’ll ease myself back in slowly with a short, not particularly SEO related post. WordPress 3.0 is out and has a number of nice new features – I’ve upgraded 2 websites automatically (one from 2.91, one from 2.92 on different hosts) [...]
Posted in Technical Architecture, Tools
By Sam Langdon on April 18, 2010
After Google recently announced it’s using speed as a ranking factor, Matt Cutts sensibly set panic-mongers at rest by explaining that it’s only a small part of the picture. Content, relevance, back links, accessibility and various other traditional SEO factors still account for the most part of how high your website will appear in the [...]
Posted in SEO News, Technical Architecture, Tools | Tagged google, performance
By Sam Langdon on February 13, 2010
Robert Scoble recently called a new mobile tool: Siri “the most useful thing I’ve seen this year”. It glues together a number of different APIs to allow users to potentially find information about pretty much anything, once the right APIs are hooked up, as explained in this interview with Siri’s CEO. This fascinates me, as [...]
Posted in Social Media, Technical Architecture | Tagged connected APIs, Robert Scoble, semantic web, Siri
By Sam Langdon on January 31, 2010
In 2005 I attended a lecture at the British Computer Society from Prof. Ian Horrocks about the Semantic Web. If you’ve not heard the term before, the Semantic Web refers to the meaning based categorisation of websites and related information using a common standard, allowing websites and the information contained to be found easily. It [...]
Posted in Social Media, Technical Architecture | Tagged HTML5, RDFa, semantic web
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