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[MyCult]

Right slippers! That's you off my Christmas card list. And let me tell you this years Christmas cards are very special indeed!

Out of spite I'm going to feed your card to next doors dog!

*edit - Next door don't have a dog, so I am going to buy them one and then feed your Christmas card to it!

 

[shoes]

Haha thats some serious spiteful Culting going on there, to actually purchase an animal to make a point.

To be fair though I will kill it with my subwoofer, it won't even hear it coming

 

[MyCult]

Terrible pun's won’t get you back on the Christmas card list either.

 

[shoes]

Weak! Right thats enough derailing for one day

 

[db]

@dirtybobby - Imust have dreamt adding it to the top of the daily email!! I was shocked to realise I hadn't actually done it!

It's on there now

just seen your blurb atop the stafford dads (lol) email.. very nice!

 

[My Name is URL]

Plus I’d be aiming for .co.uk if I were you.

That answers post 34 DB. I always use .co.uk for Google search.

 

[wmrcomputers]

Plus I’d be aiming for .co.uk if I were you.

That answers post 34 DB. I always use .co.uk for Google search.

Ask anyone which search engine they use, and if they say google, say google WHAT? 90% always answer me "dot com"
Never thought about the Geo affecting search results in great depth, but I know myself if i'm searching something (especially products i can buy from UK suppliers), i always .co.uk it (but in reality not many general web users do)

Hmmmm. Interesting thinking

 

[Catabatic]

Google UK is me home page.
Set about DBs thing, The Forum is 4th down, page 19.

 

[Catabatic]

Went in twice for some reason, still learning how to use this thing, scrubbed it now.
Plus I'm with WRM, don't need all the yank crap!

WMR even

 

[Admin]

Google UK is me home page.
Set about DBs thing, The Forum is 4th down, page 19.

Well, now this is interesting. I didn't realise google.co.uk threw up different results to google.com. I have just searched www.google.co.uk for "stafford" and went straight to page 19, but couldn't see The Forum anywhere, so started trawling through the pages one by one. I've just found us on page 12 - albeit as "staffordforum.com" instead of the more correct www.staffordforum.com!

So, does this mean that Google results are slightly different for everyone? Or has our ranking on google.co.uk really changed since Catabatic made his post?

Thanks for the tip about Redirect 301, MyCult - I'll be sure to make http://no-www.org proud

 

[Admin]

I've just added the redirect to the .htaccess and it seems to be working fine. Let me know if anything funky happens round here in case I've broken something!

 

[Astro Boy]

just tried it - page 12 and its staffordforum without the Wibbly Wobbly Web bit

 

[shoes]

So, does this mean that Google results are slightly different for everyone?

Yes. I google a load of stuff for work as do my collegues. If we google the same terms with the same preferences we can have dramatically different results.

 

[db]

just tried it - page 12 and its staffordforum without the Wibbly Wobbly Web bit

same here.. although it redirected me to wibbly wobbly web automagically, so mycult's wizardry obviously worked

i still think it can't hurt to let google know that when we search for "stafford" we are looking for the forum, so i'm going to start using this method every day to get to this place

 

[MyCult]

I didn't realise google.co.uk threw up different results to google.com.

Yes mate the different G's throw up different results. So when optimising an Australian site it google.com.au I put the majority of my efforts into. Also G's throws up different results depending on which data centre you hit.

So, does this mean that Google results are slightly different for everyone? Or has our ranking on google.co.uk really changed since Catabatic made his post?

This depends, sometimes yes, if you’re logged into your G account sometimes that affects your results and like I said before which data centre you actually query. G has many many data centres. I have tools that allow you to query them individually but this is getting a bit beyond the point here.

If you'd like to have an 'un-personalised' search while still logged into your G account simply append &psw=0 to the query string in the browser bar.

Thanks for the tip about Redirect 301, MyCult - I'll be sure to make http://no-www.org proud

Anytime man

*Edit - Heads up admin. Mail sent for you to have a looky @. Only a small ammend but I think a worth while one.

 

[Admin]

Well, it's possible I broke something. Out of interest, did anyone get "403 Forbidden" when trying to access The Forum today?

Note that this wasn't MyCult's fault - he's been very helpful, but it's my own faffing that is to blame

 

[cookie_monster]

Well, it's possible I broke something. Out of interest, did anyone get "403 Forbidden" when trying to access The Forum today?

Note that this wasn't MyCult's fault - he's been very helpful, but it's my own faffing that is to blame

no...but then it is the 7th today.

oh chrsit theres gonna be a few radnomly drunken posts from me today....why am i always the last person to realise this! is it just because i post then forget? or because im drunk then forget.....it up to you poor bleeders to work that one out.


x

 

[db]

we're on page 7 of google.co.uk today! i'm going to tell myself it's down to my constant googling of the word "stafford" when looking for the forum, even though mycult tells me otherwise and, frankly, knows far more on the subject lol..

 

[shoes]

Admin edit: moved post to relevant thread

 

[My Name is URL]

Nice photoshop.....