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Recently I have noticed a trend on a number of blogs. It goes something like this... There are 0 comments on this post. Please register or login to place a comment. Hmmm. Asking random visitors to register an account when they only want to leave a one-off comment is a huge ask. Especially when there is a good chance registration requires email based activation, which takes even more time...

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ROCK2WGTN - Wellington's Easter weekend rock concert - is over. I'm sitting in a camping ground watching all the bogans pack up their tents, and I thought this was as good a time as any to put my thoughts into a ROCK2WGTN review, while I contemplate packing up my own tent. If you are looking for something related to SEO or web development, you won't find it in this post. ROCK2WGTN - 6 great...

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Google has benevolently given my blog sitelinks. It's been a long time coming, and it would be fair to say I'm pleased as punch about the whole thing - I was wondering if it was ever going to happen. Google love If Google continues this trend and approves our Summer of Code application for...

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I have just been reading an interesting article on Search Engine Land about nofollowing internal links. The author, Shari Thurow, argues that web developers should not be nofollowing links to low-priority pages (terms + conditions, privacy policy etc). Shari points out that it's odd to put a...

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I'm going through the process of losing some weight. It's been one of those things which I have needed to do for 10 years or so, made especially worse by the fact I work in front of a computer and don't play any sport. I have managed to lost 12kg (26 pounds) so far, which isn't a bad start, but I...

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I got bored with the daily grind last week, so I disappeared for a few days with the kids to Hokianga in Northland New Zealand. However, I had work to do, so I thought I would drag the laptop along for the ride (my 20" HP Pavillion HDX is too heavy to carry, so you do actually have to drag...

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A client and I have just been burned by a combination of things that happened. And the root of the cause was the whopping sum of $16. It all started this morning when I get a txt from a client complaining about no email. This is on top of existing problems last week with spam filters getting...

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Someone commented on here the other day saying Google employed 20,000 humans to manually review sites for spam. I hadn't heard this number before, but it makes sense to me. There is only so much you can do with an algo, so it makes sense they have an offshore warehouse somewhere full of...

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I'm revamping the tags system in Jojo CMS this weekend, as we need a user interface that can scale well as more and more tags are added to sites (potentially thousands of tags). A simple list of all tags no longer works in this instance, so I'm basing the system around a search, with related...

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I wasn't entirely prepared for this news when I checked my RSS reader this morning, but upon thinking about it, it does make sense. Microsoft have made an offer to buy a big wollop of Yahoo! shares for $44 billion (half cash, half MS shares). I have never been especially fond of Microsoft,...

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I had planned on going to Webstock this year - Wellington's big web event of the year. Webstock is featuring some pretty flash names in the web industry - Molly Holzschlag, Sam Morgan, Jill Whalen,...

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Long tail SEO is something that I have trouble getting people to understand - the long tail is an oft-forgotten part of the search engine optimisation process because it's hard to get excited about...

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As shown in my previous post on optimizing landing pages, the landing page for the phrase in question is a tags page. Funnily enough, this wasn't an accident. What is a tags page A tags page isn't...

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The local PHP users group has been having an interesting discussion on the use of www vs non-www in a domain name. The discussion has raised some interesting points. Everybody agrees that both...

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I'm spending more time this year trying to increase conversions instead of traffic. Because I have so many fingers in so many pies it's easy to forget about the sites that aren't actually...

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How many blog posts start with something like "It's been a while since I posted anything, sorry about that, I promise I'll be posting more soon bla bla bla..."? Apologizing at the start...

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PriceMe have asked me to do a review of their site, or more specifically a SEO review. These make great case studies, so this post is probably worth reading if you are looking for real examples of...

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I got the following email recently from V7N, attempting to woo me back to their SEO / webmaster forums which I haven't frequented for a little while... V7N said... Dearest beloved Sadu We miss...

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I have recently been watching a few SEO videos and reading more blogs, and are surprised to see people are still asking Matt Cutts what he thinks about paid links. Matt Cutts has been pretty...

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It's now 24 hours since I submitted a top priority support ticket to SmartyHost telling them my website is down. SmartyHost haven't responded, and the website is still down. First, an apology I...

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