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Entries from July 2007

Take a look at this!

July 31st, 2007 · Comments Off

I can’t claim to have found this myself, rather someone Stumbled Upon phatterism and posted it on the 30 Day Challenge forum. Very, very creative, I wonder how much more of this kind of stuff we’ll be seeing as the internet matures.

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Tags: internet marketing

Scribefire test

July 30th, 2007 · Comments Off

testing scribefire for 30 day challenge

Powered by ScribeFire.

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Tags: gadgets · test

Holiday gadgets

July 29th, 2007 · Comments Off

With the countdown to our holiday just days away it was time this weekend to do some pre-holiday gadget shopping. This year I made just 2 purchases and both of them are practical.
The first is an IOMega USB hard drive to backup the complete content of 2 PCs to ensure that even if there are [...]

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Tags: gadgets

Thirty day challenge

July 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

The 30 day challenge pre-season has kicked off this week, with a ton of info on setting ourselves up with the right software (all free BTW) and configs to be able to hit the ground running on August 1st.
So far we’ve Ed Dale has covered Firefox+extensions (and there is some GREAT advice here, really amazing), [...]

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Tags: internet marketing

Censorship alive and well in Spain

July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off

Once again Spain shows that it doesn’t really get what democracy is about. This cartoon may be in poor taste, but it has been withdrawn by order of a judge and the magazine’s website shut down(!) because it’s target is the Spanish Royal Family who are above criticism in Spain.
That kind of attitude may have been [...]

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Tags: life

Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge 3

July 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

I’ve signed up, have you? I even persuaded my bro to go along for the ride – we’ll be the core of a team, even though I won’t be able to follow the full 30 days.

Watch the vid then go and sign up at the Thirty Day Challenge. You know you want to
And [...]

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Tags: internet marketing

Where has everybody gone?

July 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments

It’s a few days since I last wrote about StomperNet SIMPLE and I wasn’t exactly happy about it but I’ve now had the chance to hear the conversation between Ed Dale and Leslie Rohde, which was good as always.

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Tags: internet marketing

301 versus 302 directs

July 12th, 2007 · Comments Off

I’ve just been reading an post on Aaron Wall’s blog about 301 redirects and how they can affect your rankings.
I played around with 301 and 302 redirects with a couple of my sites earlier in the year due to a structural reorg on one site and a Google penalty the other.

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Tags: internet marketing

Squidoo and the SEO arms race

July 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

First Squidoo started to act against spam on July 5th and then lensmasters reported that many Squidoo lenses were losing their rankings over the weekend.
Was this due to Google taking action against Squidoo, as many people fear; or the result of sites “insulating” themselves against the sudden increase of Squidoo spam reported last week and Squidoo therefore losing backlinks as [...]

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Hotel Majestic Barcelona

July 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

A few years ago I was sent to a conference run by Network Solutions in Barcelona by my then employer. Although I could have stayed at their expence in Hotel Majestic on Passeig de Gracia I declined as I had another arrangement planned.

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Tags: barcelona · test