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I woke up this morning to a number of new comments on my blog. All of them utter crap from offshore SEO link builders. I know they were posted by offshore link builders, because I happen to track referral URLs on all comments. These particular referral URLs all had search queries like web design "post comment" which is a pretty standard starting point for link builders looking for...

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Google has recently posted some trivia on the use of nofollowed links. I had to check the clock to make sure this wasn't one of their April fool's stunts. It's not, which is a bit scary. Matt Cutts sums it up right here in an interview with Danny Sullivan. Danny: So there’s 10 links on home page, 5 pages Nofollowed, where is that link juice going? Matt: You can think of it as...

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On-page SEO is largely about getting search engines to visit your site so that they can index it nicely. But it's also about stopping them from indexing things you don't want indexed. So today when I came across some indexed content that shouldn't have been indexed, I was a bit surprised /...

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SEOs and web design agencies often use a screenshot of Google results to show off their wonderful rankings. I hadn't really considered the copyright implications of doing this, until I stumbled across the official page on how to use Google's brand. Because most of us are too busy enjoying...

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I have just spent the day at the thoroughly enjoyable OSS Bar Camp in Dublin. It was a much needed dose of geeky goodness that I haven't done for a while, so well worth the effort. I haven't been to a bar camp before, so wasn't totally sure what to expect, but the presenters were entertaining...

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For the last several years, I have used a little javascript character counter to keep my page titles and meta descriptions to a certain length. When titles are less than 70 characters and meta descriptions are less than 155 characters, Google won't truncate them in search results, and this looks...

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When we bought our first house, about 5 years ago, we didn't have much cash and went for a 95% loan. Because of this, the bank made us get life insurance - which we didn't really want, but didn't have much choice. Now that we have kids, it's a worthwhile thing to have, but at the time is was yet...

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We have recently decided to move the family to Ireland for a while, which I'm hoping is going to be a fairly exciting change. We have tickets, and it's all happening quite soon. The basic idea behind the move is pretty simple: The kids haven't started school yet. We don't currently own a...

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Every so often, you need to change the domain name for a website. This isn't something to be taken lightly as there are several implications. One of these implications is having stale pages lingering around in Google's index from the old domain. The issue here is that due to dupe content...

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Again, I stray from the path of SEO blogging and post more non-SEO content. However, seeing as my blog gets more Firefox traffic than IE traffic, there's a good chance that many of you are using Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client, so this post might be of some use. NewFirst Thunderbird...

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RagePank will be closed for normal business from the 20th of December 2008 and will reopen 5th January 2009. I'm reachable by email, but won't be attending to or responding to anything non-urgent...

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In a bid to clear up some space in the shed, I have decided to auction off my Trojan Horse. No, I'm not talking about a virus, I'm talking about a 2 metre wooden horse, custom made by yours truly...

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I have recently been under the spell of an unreliable notebook, and it's put the brakes on productivity, big time. Unfortunately, with top-of-the-line gear, you can't just rush out and grab a new...

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At some point in your affiliate career (usually earlier rather than later), you will come across affiliate links that look a little bit too much like affiliate links. I'm talking about...

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I was chatting with a friend recently, who was complaining about the data costs he incurred while travelling to the USA on a 6 month trip. He said it cost 30 cents per 10kb of data. I gave this...

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I'm booked tomorrow to do my first full-flash SEO implementation ever on a website. This has been a long time coming, and I can think of a few reasons why this is my first full-flash SEO project....

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When you are in business, you are forced to give away free stuff all the time. Especially in the SEO consulting industry, where I am selling time - every time I answer an email or pick up the...

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Kiwis and Aussies have this friendly rivalry thing going on - it's been there forever, or at least since the Queen used Australia as a dumping ground for convicts. We love beating the Aussies in...

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It's very rare to find a web developer who has the whole bag of skills - someone who can create a website from start to finish, which is professional in all disciplines of the trade - I'm talking...

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Here's something cool I hadn't noticed. I was in the middle of a blog post when Vista started throwing display driver errors and eventually blue screened. I was pretty thrilled about losing a...

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