Back in May last year, I wrote a post about a new Firebug (for Firefox) Plug-in called Page Speed, that allowed you to test the load time of your website and get some useful tips on how to improve this. This week, Google took that idea and extended it into an independent online tool, making […]
Google open a fresh pot
Google last night announced they have completed their migration to their new web indexing system known as ‘Caffeine’. This new system basically allows them to push anything Googlebot finds into the main index in seconds rather than weeks. Previously Googlebot would crawl the web, find a site, then submit its content to another system for […]
Page Speed Score: 93/100
Google made a post the other day about “Me and site performance, sitting in a tree…” so I thought before we get to the “…k, i, s, s, i, n, g!” I should give her a run for her money, check she is good enough for me. First thing the post suggest is to check […]
where am I?…
No Im not lost, I was logged into my Google Web master tools this morning and saw that my number one search query on google that returned my site has changed to ‘Gavin Taylor’. So I decided to see where I am on various searches, then this time next year I can search again and […]
preventing SPAM
Since I moved to my VPS, one of the biggest problems I’ve had is with spam. Not just with my email account but everyone who’s email accounts Im hosting on the VPS have all seen a sharp increase in spam emails. On the reseller server I had access to grey-listing and SpamAssassin to filter mail […]