Christmas Countdown – December 2nd
Did you know that with the new site came a new tool allowing you to compare several sites side by side:
Check in every day in December for new video tips and tricks.
Christmas Crackers!
The Majestic Million is a listing of the top 1 million websites on the Internet based on the number of referring Class C Subnets (techie term) that link into them. The data is updated every time we update the Fresh Index – so generally more than once a day. This video shows how easy it is to compare several sites site by side. Put the resulting URL into your favourites and you can track the sites as often as you want for free.
Please check in tomorrow for another neat tip.
British and Dutch Prime Ministers come to Science Park
Believe it or not, Mark Rutte (The Dutch Prime Minister) and David Cameron (The British Prime Minister) were in Faraday Wharf at Birmingham Science Park Aston last week as they recognised the first network “node” in Cisco’s Virtual Incubator.
Majestic – whilst being a British company – has Dutch backing, but as our Dutch investor wasn’t in the building that day and the Marketing Director (that would be me) was “marketing” with Miss Chile at Pubcon in Las Vegas, we didn’t mind that the two prime ministers didn’t get a chance to say hi.
Our founder – Alex – doesn’t take cold calls.
In all seriousness – when Majestic SEO chose its offices, we looked long and hard to find offices in England’s second city where we would feel comfortable as we developed what we hoped would be a reputable brand that would be respected throughout the world – albeit in our niche market. For not one but two Prime Ministers to come to the science park shows that we chose wisely in that regard. We are in a building with some of the UK’s most innovative startups and as they are almost all in the technology sector, we feel that we are in great company.
You can see more about the Prime Ministers’ visit here.
Yahoo Site Explorer’s demise will not affect Majestic SEO
Today we are seeing Yahoo Site Explorer coming offline. This will not affect Majestic SEO’s operations in any way at all.
Yahoo Site Explorer was launched in September 2005 to mixed acclaim but became the main source of link analysis data in the world for several years. It is now being retired as we speak and its architect, Tim Mayer laments its demise.
Majestic SEO does not – and never has – used Yahoo’s data. Whilst we expect an increase in the Free services that Majestic offers as a result of this closure, we have already planned for this eventuality within our infrastructure and see no issues in handling the increased traffic to our site.
Majestic crawls the web independently of any search engines and we surpassed Yahoo’s data set many years ago.
We would like to say thank you to Yahoo for Yahoo Site Explorer’s contribution to Internet Marketers everywhere.
Majestic facelift for 2012
We think you are going to like this. MajesticSEO.com is making the huge usability leap that so many people have wanted – starting with a major overhaul of the site theme, navigation and layout. From today you will be able to find functionality that you never knew existed and at the same time we have added some tools and functionality and overhauled others.
Majestic SEO last had a major overhaul just over a year ago, in October 2010. We were happy with the positive feedback received, but are not one to rest on our laurels. Our last website update involved a shift in technologies from bespoke PHP to off the shelf with Perl / Catalyst. This time we have focused on the front end, in particular the look and feel, with a little tidying in one or two areas.
We have tried to avoid second version syndrome by taking a pragmatic approach to the delivery of this project, with many exciting features still waiting on our TODO list.
Our homepage demonstrates the philosophy with this project – we have tried to reduce the complexity of the presentation of some of our content, and adopt a clearer, more consistent feel across the website. After much experimentation and discussion between Dixon, and the project team, we adopted a slightly retro feel, which helped facilitate more colour and vibrancy in the site.
The facelift travels from the homepage, as does the use colour, and addition of icons – we have heard from customers that they liked our site, but found the number of panels in shades of grey a little more prevalent than they would have liked. We have strenghtened the iconisation of our reports and tools, as illustrated in the “Site Explorer Ships Wheel” seen in the background and upon the tools menu to the right of the screen.
We have started to take baby steps towards re-organising our menu structure for our reports and tools section. As we have added more tools, space has started to become a premium, and hence after studying usage, some tools have been moved off of the main banner menu to a additional dropdown. Joining these tools is our new comparator tool – providing an alternative view of data of multiple sites or pages.
