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This is the personal blog of Malcolm Coles.
It's mostly about reviews (good and bad), SEO, Wordpress, newspapers, how to do things and the internet in general.

Stats: 274 Posts, 1,288 Comments
Recent Comments
- Michael in You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website: Sorry… just assumed… if you didn’t figure it out already… robots.txt is there to channel search...
- James in You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website: Wow… I would say there is a customer just dying for some support. Just curious. Did we all understand that robots.txt file...
- Michael in You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website: Just curious if you know if their “robots.txt” file adheres to that same policy? Does robots.txt only list those 7...
- Moxy in You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website: Link, as in “hyperlink”? Aaw that’s cute; they think they have a say in who links to them! Sweet
- Michael in You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website: He sure has… He sure has… Someone notify the link-police!
Recent trackbacks
- Mark Pack on The (in)accuracy of Alexa: more evidence not to rely on it: The most obvious example is the use of Alexa data on website traffic even though the Alexa data is of very dubious...
- On Google, Italy and the Future of Media – GigaOM on Why Italy was right to find Google guilty: from this consensus view, however: editor and SEO consultant Malcom Coles argued that the...
- Should Internet Content Hosts Be More Accountable? on Why Italy was right to find Google guilty: Coles has this morning posted his own counter-argument – Why Italy was right to find Google...
- State of Search on SES London: the ultimate list of blogs about it: http://www.aukseo.co.uk/catego ry/conferences/ http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/ blog/ses-london-the-ultimat...
- Twitter Nofollow – My 7 Day Ultimatum on Twitter adds nofollow to @names: to him a lot more than linking to Twitter where you can’t trust the links. It was also spotted by Malcolm...
Recent Posts
- 03 - 09
  You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website
- 03 - 09
  eHow's advice - can you trust what it says?
- 03 - 04
  Google security problem: logging in to two accounts at once
- 03 - 04
  What the BBC's strategic review actually said about online
- 03 - 01
  Uninstall a Google Chrome extension on a Mac
- 02 - 26
  Jan Moir shows it's time for the PCC to be replaced
- 02 - 25
  Why Italy was right to find Google guilty
- 02 - 24
  If Fox News ever came to Britain, would it look like this?
- 02 - 22
  Ann Widdecombe undergoes odd makeover ...
- 02 - 19
  Copywriting - please help me!