This may sound a little odd, but the other week I had an accidental meeting 5000 miles away from home with Philip Blair Product Director HTC Europe. I had a lay over at LAX when I flew back from SES at San Jose, and a mix up in security meant that I walked off with the wrong laptop and I quickly had a guy chasing me waving what looked like my laptop at me.

I joked about the fact that I wouldn’t have found him in LAX and off I went on my way. Bored I headed up to Air New Zealand’s business lounge, (strange but true, they had some great business class flight deals from the UK to the USA) where I met the same guy that I had accidentally picked up his laptop in security. We got chatting and even though we both had Lenovo Laptops, I was surprised that he had the exact same Laptop carry case, a NON-lenovo one. Even more surprised that this was his and my first time on Air New Zealand, I’d flown in from San Francisco and he’s flown into LAX from Canada somewhere, but what totally freaked me out was when I found out he lived 10miles away from me !!

Anyways we got chatting about HTC because they are awesome, and I wanted to really know what he thought about android, well it’s going to happen soon and it’s very stable and fast, was the message I got from Philip.

so maybe, just maybe I will invest in a HTC Android driven mobile phone to replace my existing HTC.
DaveN

Are we starting to see Google turn the screw of “we don’t like you” on blogs? For many months rumours had been flying around that Google was going to purge a lot of blogs, at the beginning of last week I noticed that some of my pages were not getting indexed like they normally would.

example :
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/taking-your-laptop-into-the-us-how-to-protect-yourself.html
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/a-week-in-the-life-of-david-naylor.html
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/seo-wiki.html

None are indexed in Google…

I knew we had done some backroom work on the blog so I checked webmastertools to see what errors it had turned up, and noticed some general errors. Today we have spent most of the day tracking and Greping logs files and server files to find these errors, but really haven’t turned up anything. Other than we are fine in Google’s Blogsearch and Dead in Google Organic? Of course I have had a few emails from people offering me advice lol.

Most people now think that DavidNaylor is banned in Google or at least under a penalty. This doesn’t sit right with me as most people are saying I have either gained too many links over the past month due to the Google and Twitter debate, others feel it’s because of the NON seo posts on a seo blog which again I feel incorrect and I have cited each time, most of the links gained Via the Google and Twitter thing Matt Cutts gained them as well. For off topic posts I pointed out Matt Cutts ranks for Seo Blogs, but his last posts have been :

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/best-yogurt-in-silicon-valley/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-delete-files-from-a-directory-i-own-in-freebsd/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/arrrrr-you-prepared-for-talk-like-a-pirate-day-with-fonts/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/ < the one that started all this LOL ;)
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-user-agent/

I also pointed out in the emails, that if Google is banning me because I SPOKE OUT on certain topics, wouldn’t that be Web Censorship? I understand what Spamdexing is and I understand the T’s and C’s at Google. Anyway I have pulled a few Posts and I’m going to put the Blog on Moderation and pull the full RSS feeds, until I can get to the root of this.

DaveN

update 1 am, Bed got really annoyed about Google news for some reason,we will do a blog post on it later

update 8 O’clock, Got Back home 15 mins ago, ready to start Strikepoint with Mikkel going to chat about Google Chrome : United Airlines - can you click spam you way to a billion? and My Blog issues with Google

Update 6 O’clock , I did get lunch, Becky walked in with carrot and coriander soup for me, mmm .. i get looked after! I then spent the afternoon chatting on IM about possible issues with the Blog, read and started digesting a 12 month business plan of a website we will be doing SEO on, chatted briefly with Mikkel about tonights Strikepoint on Webmaster Radio, and also decided with Becky that Bronco will close from the 24th Dec -5 Jan this year so that everyone should be well rested and have a good Christmas break.

Still wondering why we haven’t had a quote back on a new fibre optic line (Becky reminded me), can’t decide whether to release Blog to twitter Plugin, Interesting that Matt Cutts commented on my blog about the issues I’m having which would indicate that I’m not banned I guess or under any penalty, guess I will have to wait on the Crawl Team.

In total I have answered 43 Seo related questions to clients ( I love Mondays ), agreed to work with a new client and have to call 3 people that want to work with Bronco, I have also booked an appointment in lancaster on thursday, not a bad days work really ( only twittered 3 - 4 times todays :))

Update 1 O’clock, looks like a missing lunch day today,

The new in house spidering tool is taking shape nicely hopefully be ready for beta testing.

My Twitter plugin is working well and stable now :) might release to the public.

Finished answering emails, only 4 hours behind now, I still need to check back link profiles and competitor analysis on the 2 new clients signed last week.

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A week in the life of David Naylor SEO starts here…

Day 1)

OK, we are just into the first hour and Dave is currently talking to our technical team about this blog. Certain specific pages of the blog are not being indexed hmm.

http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/seo-wiki.html
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/msn-messenger-down.html

Hat tip to the webmaster central team. The index page in particular is throwing up errors , so the search is on for a rapid solution. A technical issue? The initial thoughts were on an Internal Sever Error.

Dave will also be speaking at the Affiliate Marketing Conference in London 14-15th October. He is on the Extreme Strategies for Affiliates panel day 1. So Kieron emailed him this morning looking forward to the event and mentioning the opportunity to win 1 of 2 Affiliate Passes worth £299 each just for leaving a blog comment. Now Dave is back to answering emails from clients and checking up on their latest ranks.

He’s asked me to do some client checks and the other Dan is working on an SEO report.

Update : 12:32

Been with Ben (server admin expert) all morning so far due to the technical issues with the David Naylor blog,

I noticed this last week :

Now General errors IMO are the worst kind, I mean

HTTP errors

Google encountered an error when attempting to view the URL. See RFC 2616 for more information about HTTP error codes. Google encountered an HTTP error when attempting to view the URL. In general:

• Ensure that the file exists at the specified location. ) Done and OK
• If we attempted to crawl the URL from your Sitemap, make sure that your Sitemap lists the URL correctly. I don’t have a sitemap
• If we attempted to crawl the URL from a link on your site, make sure that the link is correct. Done and the links are fine
• If another site lists a broken link to your site, we may list that URL but you may not be able to fix the error. Hmmmm that can’t be it surely
• If the file exists, your server may have returned an error when we tried to access the file. I have spent the morning going though server logs

so as you can guess this is a Pita, thank god we have 2 Seo Dan’s working on the client side at the moment.

In April this year I remember reading about how a US court had ruled that Customs or Border agents, whichever side of the pond you’re from, could search your laptop. In fact they could search any electronic device. I remember at the time that I have nothing to hide or do I? I work for Casino’s … is that Cool in the eyes of the border control officers? I knew already that I protected my browser history and cookies, I delete them on closing Firefox down, but what about My email? Ok I don’t need years of email but it’s nice to be able to jump back in time a little so this is what I thought would be the best solution ( btw of course I was way too lazy to implement any of this )

I have a Lenovo X300, awesome laptop, it runs Vista and has a Biometric finger printer reader ;)

Account One:
Border agents account, I would set up one account using my right hand because I’m right handed. This will be the dummy account so not to alert the border guards. I felt it might look a little odd if I swiped my left hand across the sensor if they thought I was right handed. In this account I would have Family photos of my parents and wife etc, No Firefox installed, a link to a hotmail email account on my desktop. I would have subscribed this account to a few websites like Fishing weekly and Home Husband World and possibly even Knitting weekly. But that I think that would be enough to get me through customs 

Account Two:
This time I use my left hand and one finger off my right hand just in case I lost the hand in a freak accident. I would want  to still get access to the good stuff wouldn’t I! I would set up VPN connections to my Home systems that I have my email client running on, Firefox fully loaded with loads of Voodoo plug ins, of course the finger scanner would only let me half way in. I would have PGP’d the whole drive up and made sure the password was never used anywhere else.

Account Three:
The Porn account, ok I needed to get my penis tattooed with a finger print and this is where I realised that maybe, just maybe, I was starting to get a little carried away.

Ok Microsoft what you upto? Why is MSN Messenger up and down like a fiddlers elbow? I have experienced a load of error codes this afternoon ranging from key ports, firewall, time synchronisation. The other odd thing is that the msn messages actually look for a short period of time if they have been sent, then  a bit later it fails. Great if your talking to an SEO client and mid sentence it goes belly up.

Added 11/11/2008

that’s what I’m getting grrrrr