Tag Archives: SEO

Meta blogging

Posted on Thursday, 6. August 2020 by hmvh

Any housekeeping writing about how it’s been a while since you’ve written, or how you changed some obscure part of your blog, doesn’t tend to age very well and is seldom particularly compelling in retrospect. The exception are genres like technical or design blogs, where the meta is part of the message. But certainly the world doesn’t need any more “sorry I haven’t written in a while” posts. Continue reading →

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Mobile visitors

Posted on Saturday, 24. September 2016 by hmvh

My little page about South African Bulletin Board Systems doesn’t pull in a lot of visitors. What surprised me most about the influx of readers was the devices they used. Almost half are mobile devices. Continue reading →

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Rewind: 2009

Posted on Tuesday, 15. December 2009 by hmvh

Through their annual Zeitgeist report, those evil people from Google have revealed that “Facebook” was 2009′s top “search query”. Other top searches included “hotmail”, “youtube”, “gmail”, “yahoo” (a touch of irony there), “ebay”, “myspace”, “bebo” and “google”. Continue reading →

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Rufus + Google + Monsters = August, part 1

Posted on Saturday, 30. August 2008 by hmvh

South Africa’s troubles and unique social peculiarities have apparently reached a regular audience far beyond the country’s borders. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) can be quite the science! Continue reading →

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