I decided to have a play with adding the new Google Author Rel=”author” attribute to WordPress. It is really very simple to do with WordPress out of the box, although an old plugin is needed for a basic set up to work, but it is a one click install and activate job (UPDATE –...
Google has announced a new tool, its Authorship Markup which uses the rel= attribute. This is designed to match content to authors on a website, although there is no indication at the moment if it will act as “proof” of ownership as obviously anybody could implement it on their website for all their content....
News in that the latest gaming console business to get hacked is Nintendo. A group has already claimed responsibility - Lulz Security. This is the same group which attacked Sony recently. The hacking took place on one of its affiliated servers but on this occasion no client data was compromised. Hacking seems to be on the...
I have suffered from content theft for ages across most of my sites and especially on my biggest money earner. Not so long ago one SEO suggested removing RSS from a site to stop the thieves (I think I know who, but not sure, checking – one of the ones in my blogroll though, sure-ish...
Last night I noticed that on one of my sites there were hundreds of duplicate files being crawled. These files were all generated by the WordPress Theme as it appended a version number to the end of each javascript file each time an edit was done. However, there was nothing in place to “remove”...
Lockheed Martin has admitted that it was recently a victim of what it called a major cyber attack. Lockheed are not revealing the details of the attack but have said that they managed to keep their systems secure. Lockheed Martin described the attack as “significant and tenacious”. Lockheed Martin have shut down some of...
Yandex.com, Russia’s version of Google, floated today in another huge IPO. You can read all about the Yandex IPO here. Yandex offers a search engine which is tailored for the Russian language and provides a much better search experience for Russian searchers. It is now much more than just an index of websites though....
LinkedIn.com floated on the stock exchange today. The latest news is that LinkedIn’s share price has rocketed on its first day of trading. A sure sign that if the tech bubble did once burst it has now been repaired and is expanding again. It is expected that Facebook will be floating on the stock...
I have always made an effort to be a part of the web community, which for me means allowing people to post on my blogs and also reading and posting comments on others. However, today I was following an interesting conversation only to discover that my comments were being automatically deleted. I did some...
When I first saw mention of Jetpack for WordPress I thought that it was a game plugin (why aren’t there more?) for WordPress. But no, it is a plugin that brings some features from WordPress.com onto your site. I installed it only for the nice social buttons. They just seemed a be more functional...
Not so long ago Google rolled out the Caffeine update. The purpose of caffeine was to speed up the gathering of the World’s data so that Google could stick to its plan of documenting everything. Google’s Mission Statement: Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Everyone...
Some time ago I used IHelpYou forums to learn about SEO. Not been online for ages. Today is my birthday, and I received several nice (obviously automated) reminders from some forums to return. For example; “We at Family Tree Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today!” - I vaguely remember joining them,...
Just watching Barrack Obama’s speech on Facebook, being streamed from Youtube. He is talking about cuts. In the UK we have had riots (albeit mostly by people with other motives) about the cuts. Our man David Cameron has been talking about The Big Society, which means people doing stuff for themselves as the local...
Google has taken an extra step towards its unofficial war against affiliates. To aid the consumer Google will soon be able to help people to find flights and holiday by using its search engines and then link direct to the checkout pages of airlines and holiday companies. For many years affiliates have run successful...
Running various blogs I get many spam comments. Most of them are trashed immediately, sometimes I reply, after removing the links, just to leave a witty comment. Today someone wrote the following comment on a blog that I manage: “Took me time to look at every one of of the comments, other than I...
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