I am personally finding better results when using the search engine Bing recently. However, Google still has a huge gigantic market share of search results and I doubt that will change anytime soon. I realize that my opinion is subjective – what does “better results” actually mean? Well to me, it means I am getting […]
Bounce Rate – Does Bing Provide More Relevant Results? Read More »
Years ago, when I first started the blog, “Ianism,” most of my posts were about classical liberalism, libertarianism, and included some “debates” with opinion of both the left and the right. There were also posts about some of my own personal achievements, discouragements and of course, about my awesome sons and their achievements as well.
My Journey To Trying Mansaf Read More »
I remember years ago as a teenager, going to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto during the late summer. It was a time when Pepsi Cola was doing some major marketing and they instituted the “Take The Pepsi Challenge.” At the Ex, there were tables set up where people could sample a glass of Pepsi
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I have just found out that my ex-wife (Angela McCleery) and her husband (Steve Lindsay) who reside near Oxford Station and Oxford Mills, Municipality of North Grenville, Ontario, along with my 22 year old son (James Scott) and Steve’s 17 year old son Sean, have lost everything in a house fire. The house burnt to
A Horrible House Fire Tragedy – Can You Help? Read More »
… for links that are so called “dodgy” or from “bad neighbourhoods.” I have seen so many web masters now worrying about their backlink profile, and for good reason. Google has not been very clear about how a bunch of backlinks that they don’t trust, could affect your own site’s search engine rankings. In the
Google – The Stupidity of Even Thinking Of Backlink Penalties… Read More »
(I posted this on my FB wall at about 6:30AM on August 6th) August 6th.. Yes, the Martian Curiosity machine has landed. That is neat. As I write this, ten years ago, to the hour and almost to the minute, I was the sole attendant at the birth of an amazing little boy. No doctors,
Earlier, my business partner and I were messing around with an experimental script to help with obtaining some faster search engine results from Google. What we were trying to do was find a way to quickly see the top one hundred results for a search query so we could parse the results and get what
Google Search Result Numbers – Bug Or Feature? Read More »
Back in about 1997, when most North Americans really had no clue about the Internet, I was introduced to it by a local service provider who built my first website for a small business I had back then. I was one of the first “Custom Fishing Rod Builders” to have a website, and it certainly
Announcement – Teaming Up With VA Networking Read More »
About an hour or so ago, I happened to check my twitter feed and noted that within the two minutes prior, he had tweeted the following message: “Minor weather report: We pushed 1st Penguin algo data refresh an hour ago. Affects <0.1% of English searches. Context: http://goo.gl/4f7Pq” ~ https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/206232437427154944 Many of us in the SEO
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Google keeps putting out posts and guidelines and talk about “quality” (however that is defined – quality in this case is subjective and how one ever create a logarithm that can precisely define it is beyond me), but I know quality, at least to me, when I see it. I also know junk when I
Is The Penguin Scratching Under Its Feathers? Read More »