Would you pay $30,000 per Gb for data?
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 some thought and realised it equated to a whopping
$30,000 PER GIGABYTE. I can understand that Blackberry users would
never need a whole gig of data, but it's easy to go through that if
you use your...
Added: 6 Oct 08
SEO for 100% flash websites
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.
* There are plenty of good reasons why full-flash sites are a bad
idea. Most of the time, SEO is one of them, but it doesn't have to be.
* Most clients simply can't afford the expense of...
Added: 2 Oct 08
The value of free
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 phone,
that's my core product being given away for free.
As you get a bit older and wiser, you learn...
Added: 1 Oct 08
New Zealand vs Australia
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 sport more
than any other nation, and we we can always use the 'small country,
small population' card...
Added: 16 Sep 08
Working with designers
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 backend
programming, frontend coding, usability, design, content creation,
marketing, SEO, and...
Added: 4 Sep 08
Firefox 3 remembers form content
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 good half hours work, as you can
imagine.
So when I restarted the machine, and opened Firefox, it...
Added: 30 Aug 08
Are there *any* link building specialists in NZ?
Seriously, if someone can recommend a good link builder / link
building expert based in New Zealand, please let me know.
The problem I have is that everyone is a SEO expert and everyone is a
link building expert; if you go off what it says on everyone's
website.
I'll be the first to admit...
Added: 26 Aug 08
Some SEO wisdom from Microsoft
I just happened across a page published by Microsoft detailing 8 SEO
tips. Oddly, the information is well presented and I find myself
mostly agreeing with what they suggest.
A lot of readers will be familiar with all this anyway, but I thought
it might be relevant to some website owners or new...
Added: 21 Aug 08
Finda as a presell page
People often get obsessed by links, and get all wound up about whether
a link is nofollowed or not.
The truth is, many links have 'secondary' benefits that are far more
powerful than a little trickle of link juice.
This morning's example is how to get your page on finda[1] ranking in
the top...
Added: 20 Aug 08
SEO Course
My father just forwarded me an email he received which happened to
contain the word "SEO". To be honest, I'm impressed he actually
remembered that's what I do, I'm pretty sure the concept goes over
most people's heads.
The email was promoting a New Zealand SEO course
(www.seocourse.co.nz[1]),...
Added: 19 Aug 08
Google favicons
Anyone thinking that the Google design team have been too busy making
olympic themed logos to do anything else would be wrong, it would
seem.
I just noticed today that Google Analytics has a new...
Added: 15 Aug 08
Adwords keyword tool censoring adult content?
I'm just trying to setup an Adwords campaign for an adult website. And
I noticed the Adwords keyword suggestion tool is refusing to give me
keyword data on the adult searches.
I'm pretty sure...
Added: 14 Aug 08
Must buy a beer for The Planet
I have been having a great deal of grief with a couple of sites using
too much international bandwidth. People who host in the USA might not
be familiar with this concept, but our New Zealand...
Added: 30 Jul 08
To iphone or not to iphone
So iphones have just been released in New Zealand. Naturally, I'm
thinking about getting one. Actually, I have been sitting around all
day with my credit card itching away in my pocket.
So rather...
Added: 13 Jul 08
Domain name scams
I have been around long enough to have seen a few pretty clever domain
name scams. One of my favourites was the Domain registry of America
(or a name similar to that) who sent domain name owners...
Added: 9 Jul 08
Google crawling of flash content "improved"
Google have recently announced that they have improved their algorithm
for crawling flash content[1] on websites.
I'd expect this would be a welcome change for many web developers,
but I'm going...
Added: 2 Jul 08
The pagination issue
Here's one of my favourite duplicate content issues that pretty much
everybody gets wrong. It's the question of how you handle a paginated
set of pages, without causing duplicate content problems...
Added: 24 Jun 08
Coding College interview: Why I do code
I was recently interviewed by Coding College, a New Zealand blog about
code, the web & PHP, about how I got started with PHP and some of the
early projects I worked on. Mostly, these were fun...
Added: 25 May 08
seo.co.nz for sale
seo.co.nz is currently for sale. It's been quietly doing it's thing
for the last few years, and the owners (Intersect) are putting it on
the market, available to the highest bidder.
Of course, I...
Added: 23 May 08
Alternative domains not in Google
A customer has just brought to my attention a problem that hadn't
occured to me. It's to do with all those other domain names you own
and are 301ing to the main site.
PROBLEM:
You have...
PHP redirect function (301 / 302) - 30 Apr 08Added: 5 May 08
Sending clients to Google - 29 Apr 08
Change of contact details - 20 Apr 08
Yellow pages thinner than ever - 8 Apr 08
Please login to comment - 28 Mar 08
ROCK2WGTN Review - 24 Mar 08
I got sitelinks - 11 Mar 08
Nofollowing internal links - 10 Mar 08
What do weight loss and SEO have in common? - 3 Mar 08
Coding in paradise - 26 Feb 08
Burned over $16 - 21 Feb 08
Passing the sniff test - 11 Feb 08
Humour: spamming the API - 3 Feb 08
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! - 2 Feb 08
Webstock vs ROCK2WGTN - 29 Jan 08
Long tail SEO - A simplified how-to - 26 Jan 08
Getting the most out of tags - 24 Jan 08
www or non-www - 19 Jan 08
Fixing crappy landing pages - illustrated - 18 Jan 08
Apologizing for not blogging enough - 10 Jan 08
