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Day Two Recap – SMX Sydney SEO SEM Conference 2008

Day 2 of SMX Sydney started off solidly and finished with an unexpected twist before we headed underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the after party. Following My Definitive Guide to Maximise Benefits of Conference Attendance definitely worked because I learnt a lot, made connections with smart and influential people and improved my profile in [...]

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Danny & Rand Discover Flightcentre Possible Blackhat Cloaking : SMX Sydney Day 2

In an unexpected twist to the end of Day 2 at SMX Sydney Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan exposed a possible case of blackhat cloaking by Flightcentre.com.au Searchengineland.com’s Danny Sullivan & Rand Fishkin from Seomoz discovering possible blackhat cloaking on Flightcentre.com.au Page on Flightcentre.com.au viewed with different user agents While doing an SEO review for [...]

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Day One Recap – SMX Sydney SEO SEM Conference 2008

I just returned to my office from Day 1 of the SMX Sydney 2008 SEO/SEM Conference. Learnt lots and met plenty of interesting people including chatting for a while with Adam Lasnik from Google and Rand Fishkin from Seomoz during lunch Google’s Marisa Mayer – Keynote Conversation with searchengineland.com’s Danny Sullivan & Barry Smyth – [...]

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How to Embarrass RSS Scrapers Who Hotlink to Your Images

2 days ago I discovered that a site was republishing my full text RSS feed including images downloaded straight from my web server. My feed clearly states “Re-publishing this RSS feed in full is not allowed” so I asked them to please stop republishing it or change it to a summary of each article. They [...]

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Google Sitelinks Explained and How Webmasters Can Change Them

The links shown below some sites in Google search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Google generates these sitelinks periodically from your site’s contents. You can see an example below showing Google search results containing sitelinks when people search for my name “Neerav Bhatt”. The idea is that Google’s systems [...]

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5 Reasons Why Search Engine Optimisation is like Horse Racing

credit: willpalmer Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of trying to improve a website’s search engine rank to attract more people to it and ensure those people are provided with useful high quality information that solves their problems and answers their questions. I was trying to think of a good analogy to explain what [...]

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Google Geek Night Sydney 2008 Reviewed

I just returned from the Google Geek Night Sydney 2008 where product specialists from various areas: Google Maps API, Adsense, Adwords, Gadgets, Youtube and Analytics explained how their products worked and displayed interesting demos eg: a 3D demo of the Singapore Formula 1 race route using KML Upon entering the Google Sydney office (known as [...]

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Barry Smyths Search Engine Bootcamp (SEO/SEM Workshop) Review

Cost of going to Barry Smyth’s Search Engine Bootcamp: a few hundred dollars Knowledge gained from the great speakers: Priceless! A few days ago I was lucky enough to attend the Sydney Search Engine Bootcamp Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) workshop run by Barry Smyth’s Search Strategies company and was very [...]

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Quickly Change the WordPress MySQL Database Table Prefix

The other day I had to change the WordPress table prefix for my Road Less Travelled Blog. It took a while but I eventually found instructions at the Pi in the Sky Blog. They’ve been re written here in a more summarised form: Change the table prefix in wp-config.php and upload it to your web [...]

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Reduce WordPress Comment Spam to a Trickle :-)

Comment spam is a fact of life if you have a blog. But by using WordPress, you have not only some good built-in tools at your disposal, but also some excellent plugins and methods you can use, which are constantly being developed. Please do not think that you can ignore the issue of comment spam [...]

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Geo Visitors – Map Where Visitors to Your Website Come From

More and more people are using Google’s vast and disparate service offerings to create new and interesting tools. One such tool is the recently launched Geo Visitors tool by www.digitalpoint.com. Follow their instructions by adding a small snippet of HTML to a handy place on your website or blog and it will display a button [...]

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Sad news regarding Nigel McFarlane

The following is a quote from the Web Standards Group announce mailing list: We’ve just received news that Nigel McFarlane, a well known web standards advocate, evangelist and Web Standards Group member, has died. As well as being an active member of the Mozilla technology community, Nigel was a technology analyst and commentator with a [...]

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Why This Site Doesnt use Access Keys

The topic of accesskeys regularly appears on mailing lists, forums, and other arenas. Developers ask what the concensus is, and the answer is – there isn’t one. I agree with Derek Featherstone, who states in his article More reasons why we don’t use accesskeys, that We believe that the functionality accesskeys provide is worthwhile, but [...]

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Free Google Adwords Vouchers

If you live in Australia, France, Sweden, Italy, Japan, United States of America or Singapore you can get a FREE Google Adwords voucher in your currency by following the relevant link below: Free $50 dollar Google Adwords voucher (Australia) Free Unknown amount of € (Euro’s) Google Adwords voucher (France) Free 500 Krona Google Adwords voucher [...]

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Wiki Feature Comparisons

A Wiki or wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website (see Wiki software). Since Wiki’s are often used these days as defacto CMS’s/knowledge bases these [...]

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