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The United Kingdom (to use its short name) is a complicated country, actually made up of four countries across two islands. If you were looking to understand it better, forget Google Maps. That’s because the service has lost the constituent countries of England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland — as well as the island of Great Britain.

OK, the countries — and the island — are still there. They’re just not defined. Look here:



Quick, can you spot Wales? England? Where’s Scotland? How...

Breaking Development is a conference about the future — as it should be. But as I reflect on the past couple of days of talks about going beyond the desktop, there’s one thought I can’t get out of my head:

We need to push the limits at both ends of the technology spectrum.

I’ll come back to that. First, I wanted to summarize the major themes that stood out for me at the San Diego conference on 22-23 July: Forget about device classes like phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop. Instead, let...

When Google launched the EMD Update in September 2012, I assumed that it only impacted keyword rich domain names. Specifically, sites that target the keyword phrase in their primary domain...

Today Shaun reminded me that the recent SEO is dead news headlines yet again, which in fairness these headlines have been around for the last 10 years. that I should just take a chill pill and pointed me to what he said in may 2012 : STOP THE PRESS...

I often get asked what I think the future of SEO will hold, sometimes I go off on a rant other times I try to let people see what I see. So let’s break down what SEO used to be for a long time : Build a website that was SEO friendly, this meant...

There has always been a lot of discussion around the topic of conversion rates and if that impacts your Google rankings. Of course, the correlation versus causation item is on the top of ones mind when discussing such topics.
But I wanted to share with you a WebmasterWorld thread that tested this...

I’m attending the Breaking Development conference in San Diego this week, and will be posting my notes from a few of the talks here.

Ben Callahan did a great talk on design workflows called Prototyping Style. He discussed the problems with linear workflows before giving some great tips on a new way of collaborative working specifically suited for responsive design. We used to have a very linear workflow, which went something like this: Content UX Design Front-end development Back-end...

I’m attending the Breaking Development conference in San Diego this week, and will be posting my notes from a few of the talks here.

I really enjoyed Cameron Moll‘s talk entitled “Pitfalls and Triumps of the Cross-Screen Experience”. One of the things that I appreciated is that it’s one of the first talks here I’ve seen that looked a bit more critically at Responsive Web Design. Not that Cameron isn’t a fan of responsive design, but he does bring up some interesting questions about its...

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I covered a video answer from Google's Matt Cutts on the topic of duplicate content.

In short, should you worry about having duplicate content on your site or not. The short answer...