A few months ago there was a tweet (and I believe a blog post) by Dave Naylor on the exploitation or URL shorteners in general, specifically bit.ly (as that was the example he used).
On seeing this I decided to sit down and see what I could find out about further ways to ‘influence’ these URL [...]

So recently I’ve been doing a lot of work with link location networks at Summit Media, and from this I’ve been having a look at information I can get quickly and what effects it has on rankings – obviously we already have a scoring factor that we use for tasks like this but I’ve decided [...]

Well today I thought I’d finally have a proper look at the Search Game from SharkSEO.
I completed the first 16 questions in about 30min (admittedly I’d say a couple of them were more luck than skill) but question 17… my gosh that was annoying as hell!!
I even contacted Dave himself:
That just annoyed me even more [...]

Not really a lot of point in writing a long post here, just thought I’d let people know that I’ve just written a post about using Link Networks in Semantics.
Probably the first ‘proper’ post I’ve written that explains anything and it isn’t even on my website!
Oh well, I’ll put something useful on here at some [...]

So, I’m posting this to mainly talk about the URL shortener bit.ly.
I was wondering what peoples opinion is on how accurate this is mainly because the figures are a LOT different to Google Analytics that I’ve currently got running on the blog.
I’m getting very little traffic at the moment, mainly because I’ve never really set [...]