Lots of reports are out today about how effectively Dell is using social media marketing and especially Twitter to generate revenue, $6.5M in sales are the headlines, I wonder what that translates to in margins.
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It is no huge secret that I have had this WordPress blog hacked twice this year but some consolation is that I am not alone.
Alex recently launched a DVD course on WordPress security that is available for FREE + shipping
Stop – I know what you are thinking – FREE + Shipping these days normally comes with lots of strings attached, forced continuity often hidden etc. Whilst Alex does cross-sell a few related products, the main offer is genuinely free.
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Just because Blogger / Blogspot is owned by Google doesn’t make it SEO Friendly
For years I have been reading absurd suggestions that Google’s Blogger / Blogspot service is SEO friendly. At one time this was semi-true, and it is even possible with the current incarnation. However if you use the service “as intended”, without expert knowledge, you might find yourself up a creek without a paddle.
I am writing this on a Sunday, thus I am going to avoid vulgarities, cussing, and even an attention grabbing headline. The Google engineers at Blogger deserve that and more. Blogspot currently stinks for SEO.
I would even extend that to buying any form of paid link or sponsored review, and possibly also links from directories, social networks, blog commenting etc.
Last June I provided a very simple guide to avoid being banned from Technorati but the same principle applies to
Hopefully if you ever get caught up in the whirlwind of a blog storm, and receive 10s, maybe even hundreds of links to one of your articles, that the topic of both the page being linked to, and the pages being linked from are related to your online business, and the topic of your blog.
It is quite likely that you have been developing other articles on similar topics for months, receiving very little online attention, and even more worrying, if you create follow-on articles providing important updates, they are less likely to be seen.
The majority of traffic will by default enter your site (the landing page) on the page that received the most links, and this traffic might continue for days, weeks, months and even years.
Feedburner have just annonced that 2 of their professional features are now available free of charge.
I have been signed up for Feedburner Pro for a while
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I have had about 1000 visitors searching for information on Day Job Killer hit a 404 error page and I am not sure quite why it happened – don’t make changes when you are tired.
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I previously wrote about this subject in my post “How to move your blog or start a new one“, but I didn’t go into it with as much details as Rand Fishkin dies in this post. Rand goes into the technical aspects of moving a domain in great depth.
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