bybjorn.com | Bjørn Børresen – freelance web developer

At last, you can google me (hope I don’t get sued for using Google as a verb) and find bie.no in the index. Let’s hope it’s not temporarily this time. One strange thing though, they didn’t adhere to my robots.txt file which tells them not to index odp.php – heck, they even threw robots.txt right [...]

If you’ve been banned from Google for whatever reason you want to do a reinclusion request. I’ve previously used Matt Cutt’s tutorial, however it seems Google has changed the way one does this. The link Matt mention is no longer there. The new way is to do it here, from “My Sites”. Yes, that means [...]

In his latest Alertbox column Jakob Nielsen (you know, the usability guru) writes: I worry that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web’s value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index. He argues that people are using the search engines as ‘answer engines‘, and [...]

Going from a PR7 to nil I should know what it feels like to be the coolest kid in class one day, and the geek back in the corner the next. I’m glad my income doesn’t rely on Google traffic, cause if it did I’d be in it deep. Here’s the story: I’ve created a [...]