Gary Cottam

Author at Phoenixrealm.com

Gary Cottam is the founder and CEO of Peterborough-based company Doublespark, where he is able to apply his skills and expertise in the realm of Graphic Design, Web Design and SEO. His passion for these areas has also led him to become chief editor of the Phoenixrealm SEO blog, keeping readers informed of the very latest developments.

Gary lives in Cambridge with his wife, Lucy.

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Joost de Valk – Subscribe to comments plugin request

posted by Gary Cottam on November 17, 2006 in General

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Joost de Valk kindly suggested I implement a subscribe to comments plugin. This has now been completed. Luckily I found an excellent WordPress comment plugin it took less than 5 minutes to install and worked out of the box. I …

Sitemap Standardisation

posted by Gary Cottam on November 17, 2006 in SEO

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This week Google, MSN and Yahoo agreed on a sitemap standard. Updating sitemaps may not be such a pain in the future. Google and Yahoo have already implemented the standard, with Microsoft following by 2007.

That reminds me, I …

Google Page Rank

posted by Gary Cottam on November 15, 2006 in Google Page Rank

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I noticed today that the www & non-www versions of phoenixrealm had different Google page ranks – 6.5 & 6.4

My understanding is that Google classifies these as separate domains, and that you can get a page rank boost by …