Last weekend I attended a PHP developer conference here in Manchester hosted by PHPNW.
PHPNW is a community of web developers, web designers and anyone else interested in PHP, from the North West of England, who come together once a month to talk with similar like minded people and have a pint or two. The sessions normally have one or two speakers and I recommend everyone pop down if they can. Read the rest of this entry »
where am I?…
No Im not lost, I was logged into my Google Web master tools this morning and saw that my number one search query on google that returned my site has changed to ‘Gavin Taylor’. So I decided to see where I am on various searches, then this time next year I can search again and see how I’ve faired.
| google.co.uk | ||
| search term | search type | search position |
| gavin | web | unknown (page 50+) |
| gavin | uk | page 43, position 5 |
| gavin taylor | web | page 1, position 3 |
| gavin taylor | uk | page 1, position 2 |
| gav taylor | web/uk | page 1, position 1 |
| php developer | web/uk | unknown (page 50+) |
| php developer manchester | web | page 3, position 9 |
| php developer manchester | uk | page 4, position 1 |
not bad results there really, not much to done on searches for my name, going to focus on php developer I think
| bing.com | ||
| search term | search type | search position |
| gavin | web | unknown (page 50+) |
| gavin | uk | unknown (page 50+) |
| gavin taylor | web | page 1, position 3 |
| gavin taylor | uk | page 1, position 2 |
| gav taylor | web | page 1, position 4 |
| gav taylor | uk | page 1, position 2 |
| php developer | web/uk | unknown (page 50+) |
| php developer manchester | web | page 2, position 8 |
| php developer manchester | uk | page 8, position 9 |
interestingly on the web search for ‘gav taylor’, my twitter feed came top.
again searches for my name do quite well, confirms I need to improve seo for ‘php developer’
Will be interesting to see where I end up for these searches in Feb 2011
Firefox 3.1 morphs into Firefox 3.5
Mozilla have announced that the forth beta version (due for release 14th April) of the next instalment of popular browser Firefox will skip a few versions from 3.1 to 3.5.
Firefox director Mike Beltzner announced on the developer news blog that due to the inclusion of many new features (TraceMonkey, Private Browsing , etc not to mention the number of bug fixes already added to Firefox 3.1 ment that an increase in version number to reflect the changes was required.
Further updates for us Add-On developers is to be announced in due course via the wiki, and probably the mailing list too.
for more information, visit these sites: