{{smx09e}} 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... Read More
Danny & Rand Discover Flightcentre Possible Blackhat Cloaking : SMX Sydney Day 2
{{smx09e}} 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... Read More
Day One Recap – SMX Sydney SEO SEM Conference 2008
{{smx09e}} 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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
5 Reasons Why Search Engine Optimisation is like Horse Racing
{{smx09e}} 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... Read More
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... Read More
Barry Smyths Search Engine Bootcamp (SEO/SEM Workshop) Review
{{smx09e}} 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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More