October 2009

Thanks to this Months Sponsors – October 2009

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Bad Architecture and Band-Aid Solutions

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In the past few months all of the search engines, but especially Google have released or started supporting new ways of fixing site architecture issues. However IMHO these are band-aid solutions for bad site architecture, and not something you should rely on … at all.

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How to Add Search Shortcuts to Google Chrome.

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Last week Danny Sullivan twittered he was looking for a creative commons image to use. Christine Churchill poked a little fun at me wondering how I was able to get that so quickly. The trick is using search shortcuts, and I’m going to show you how to do it.

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Using Sponsored Blog Themes For Reputation Management

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This is the second time I’ve encountered this technique in the past few months so I thought I’d spend some time explaing what it is, what to watch out for, and how it could be problematic for you.

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No The TSA Really Didn’t Take Your Baby

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Late last week as we where all recovering from balloon boy, another minor kefuffle percolated to the top involving a mother and her child being separated during a TSA checkpoint screening. This story provides some interesting insight from a reputation management and social media perspective, so I’d like to delve a little deeper.

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