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This isn't SEO related, so bear with me. Anyone in the tech support industry will know how frustrating it is dealing with end users over the phone, even when dealing with seemingly simple issues. But this is compounded when people don't have a phone next to their computer. I had to explain to someone today how to configure something on their PC. I was talking to the non-technical guy on the...

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Matt Cutts recently posted about indexing search results pages on your site. This interested (and worried) me as I'm quite a fan of getting my search results indexed. The bottom line is, Google says you should block your search results pages from being indexed, using robots.txt or your favorite other method. Browse vs Search I understand this to a certain point, because seach results pages...

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I just stumbled across an oldish post on Stuntdubl talking about how Google no longer comes up with "did you mean stuntdouble" when you search for his name. Apparently Google is clever enough to figure out that the misspelling is actually not a misspelling. Guess what......

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This just occurred to me. I was minding my own business reading some blog comments on one of my favourite SEO blogs, and I spotted an interesting comment which I felt was interesting enough to warrant a visit to the author's site. Yes, posting comments on blogs can drive traffic if you have...

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My wife gave birth to a little girl today, Emily Kane. Emily was born naturally and weighs 4.1kg, a nice healthy weight. I tried to get her started on some of my favourite SEO blogs, but I don't think new babies have particularly good eyesight. Yeah, we are pretty happy. This beats getting...

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I couldn't resist posting this one, sorry. It's Friday night, and I was a bit light on blog material until I paid another visit to Ferrit. Ferrit, New Zealand's resident fat animal of SEO, seems to have gone backwards in terms of Google indexing since I last checked them out. Above: I don't...

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For New Zealanders dealing with people in the US or overseas, we have one distinct disadvantage - our NZ dollar is worth less than an American dollar, so if we price things in NZ dollars, we seem more expensive than we really are. Of course, the answer is to convert your prices into USD using...

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I will be playing in the SEO Poker Tournament on Saturday March 24th at 9:00 PM GMT. Hell, why not. This seems like a fun concept, and though I suck at poker I'm going to give it a go anyway. What this likely means is I'm going to have to give away some free links to SEO sites. Above -...

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I was having a look at my site stats from yesterday, and came across a result I wasn't expecting. Apparently someone found me for "buy propecia"??? This seems odd, because I don't sell propecia, and because it seems like a really good profitable phrase to be ranking for if you do...

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Lately I'm spending more time spamming (cough - I mean adding useful and relevant content) to forums and blog comments. Even if they are nofollow links, it's all about brand building and getting your name out there. Good comments on good blogs do bring in traffic. 2nd hand link building A friend...

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People often ask what I do. A good question, I do lots of different things. I started off by saying I was a web developer - being the correct term for what I mostly do. But the term web developer...

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I have been all bitter and twisted the past few weeks about Google putting some of my pages into the supplemental index. And not just my rubbish pages, some of my best content has gone...

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I have just completely revamped the NZ Coastguard boating education website tonight. When I say "revamped", I mean make substantial changes to the backend with virtually no changes to...

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I was recently approached by a client asking about putting a blog on their business website. The request was odd, as it wasn't the sort of site that would typically lend itself to having a blog...

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One of my new year's resolutions has to spend more time trolling forums and blogs. To interact more, learn some new tricks and (ahem) build some comment and signature links. Many blogs use...

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I have just released a beta of SEO Form - a Firefox extension which helps you with directory submissions and link exchanges. The tool simply autocompletes common form fields for you such as...

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Apologies for the second post in a row on Google PageRank. I'm not *that* fascinated by it, really. I'm one of those guys that thinks that PR / Alexa Rank is largely a dick measuring contest...

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I'm a bit of a sucker for the little green bar at the bottom of my screen showing the PR of the page I'm looking at. Sometimes, I catch myself reading the PR before reading the content to decide if...

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This week I launched a new site for Pure Water Corporation NZ, a company supplying iron water filters around New Zealand. These water filters are a handy mechanism developed in the Ukraine, which...

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I launched a simple website for Environmental NZ yesterday. This site will serve as a forum for environmental engineers around New Zealand, and is owned and operated by a friend of mine. Yes, I...

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