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Blogs

Putting Partial Feed SEO Bloggers on Notice

July 27, 2007

If you’re an SEO blogger and you publish a partial feed I’m putting you on notice, August 1st I’m dropping you from my RSS reader.

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SEO News Bloggers Introduce Yourself

June 14, 2007

Yeah yeah I’m a day late and a dollar short but this is my blog and I can do things anyway I like so just deal or skip to next post if it bothers you.

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Subscribe to Posts via Email

March 15, 2007

Ok you can subscribe to posts via email if that’s your thing, the form is in the right hand sidebar. let me know if it doesn’t format properly, thanks.

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Blogging in a Sound Bite World

February 26, 2007

For those people who blog daily or semi daily is there an optimal post length that keeps people reading regularly without feeling overwhelmed?

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My Feeds – Do I Have it All Wrong?

February 10, 2007

So I’ve been catching up after working on client stuff for the past two days and think I may have my feeds set up incorrectly.

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Kevin Federline, the Super Bowl and Blogging

February 2, 2007

When I speak with clients about blogging one of the key point I try to stress is that they should try and not only write about their niche, but try to take advantage of and tie into current events. The more widespread and front of mind the news or event is the better. To illustrate [...]

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Data Gathering from Blog Widgets

January 19, 2007

When Yahoo purchased MyBlogLog many wondered, was it a good deal, and why exactly was Yahoo paying so much. For those of you who’ve never bothered to check your stats or wondered what all the fuss is about I’d like to point out a few points.

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Wordpress Contact Form Won’t Submit

January 15, 2007

Today I was having a problem with my wordpress contact form being broken. When you would submit the form it wouldn’t process it would end up the exact place it started and the values would be lost. I searched on Google and didn’t find any answers so I had to tinker myself. Fortunately I found [...]

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Google Widgets and Full RSS Feeds

January 12, 2007

I totally admit the publishing full feeds is probably a large contributor as to why I’m being scrapped to death. Thankfully I’m sitting on a fairly authoritative and trustworthy domain that helps Google decide I’m really the owner of the content. However if there’s anything we can learn from the MyBlogLog Purchase it’s that widgets [...]

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Engadget and Macworld

January 11, 2007

Great just what they needed verification and validation that creating your own “blog storm” works. For more head on over to hitwise.

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Googlers Blogging More

January 3, 2007

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed more activity on the official google blogs in the past few days? Wonder if it’s a direct result of the Matt Cutts Blog Faster post or just a coincidence, of course I don’t believe in coincidences …
Official Google Blog: Kirkland calling Inside AdSense: Embed a photo [...]

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Chris Winfield Blogging at SEO Buzz Box

December 13, 2006

I met Chris at Pubcon in Vegas where he was live blogging some of sessions on his regular site 10e20.com. I also went out for drinks with him this past Monday night in the city (when people from NY say the city they mean Manhattan, any other use of the “the city” to describe a [...]

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Tag Spam

December 8, 2006

If there was ever any doubt that spam has invaded tagging and technorati it was disolved last night. I logged into technorati and this was the list of tags I was presented with:

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How to Win an Election With Keywords

September 29, 2006

Every few days I go through my “junk suspects” email folder to see if anyone got flagged as “spam” that shouldn’t have. I noticed a large increase in spammers using political topics as subject lines things like :
“URGENT: Bush admits Al-Quada and Iran Link False”
“IMMEDIATE ATTENTION: New White House Plan Endangers All Americans”
“ACTION REQUIRED: Show [...]

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Is P9 Back at Digg

September 22, 2006

Has P9 of Digg changed his mind and gone back to Digg?

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Does Your Follow Through Suck

September 19, 2006

This weekend I was cruising through digg and came across an example of how you can completely “ruin the ride” by not giving me what you promised.

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Help Oilman Make the Top 100

September 14, 2006

There aren’t many things as embarrassing as going to an uber-geeky mandatory pocket protector wearing web 2.0 conference and not being uber geeky enough. So in an effort to help Oilman get in touch with his inner geek and have some nerdy bragging rights he’s asking people to help him make the technorati top 100. [...]

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Microsoft Max Review

September 10, 2006

One has to wonder do the folks at Microsoft actually read blogs? Judging by their most recent product release Max, I can only say the boys in Redmond are really disconnected from the way people do things.

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SEO Plugins for Wordpress

September 7, 2006

This post is old and outdated, for a new version please visit SEO Plugins for Wordpress Part II
In the past few months I’ve gotten quite a few requests from people asking what plugins I use here and on other sites, and which ones I reccomend, so here’s my list with annotations.

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Dave Taylor at Affiliate Summit

September 1, 2006

If you’ve ever tried to convince your boss, or partners, or anyone in your organiztion that adding a blog to your website is valuable, and failed, here’s something you should watch. It’s filled with some great content and lots of ammunition to help you make your case. The video is an hour long. Dave Taylor [...]

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