Google DevFest 2010

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We here in Australia do not get to attend many developer conferences. Perhaps it’s due to not having the volume in the marketplace (yet), but it is a breathe of fresh air when we little folk do get the opportunity to attend one of the more important developer functions Google DevFest 2010. Google DevFest is [...]

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Scribe SEO Plugin – Making SEO Easy

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Scribe SEO Plugin

In this day and age Search Engine Optimization is crucial to having your product or service seen online. Everybody these days is pushing various concepts and must-do techniques for both On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO. Many people online understand the need to employ SEO and many use a multitude array of free and fee tools [...]

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Affili@syd – Affiliate Marketing Conference

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Affili@syd - Affiliate Marketing Conference

Affili@syd is one of Australia’s biggest Affiliate Marketing conferences and as the name suggests, it is held in Sydney. Affili@syd was the brain-child of Matt Bateman, Managing Director of Viva9. It was first launched in 2009 and following the success and buzz that followed Affili@syd 2010 was sure to go off. The idea behind Affili@syd [...]

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WordPress Backup 101 – Staying On Top Of It All

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As I promised in my previous post on the WordPress Backup Tools, I have put together some information on how to organize your new WordPress Blog backups now that you are taking regular backups. WordPress Backup Storage Strategy Part 1 – Exported WordPress data (XML File) If you have been using the in-built Data Export [...]

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Top 5 Most Effective Backlink Building Techniques

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Top 5 Most Effective Backlink Building Techniques Backlinks are an integral part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and while many different techniques can be employed to increase your backlink count, some are most effective than others. Below I’ve provided the Top 5 Most Effective Backlink Building Techniques. Now these are by no means a definitive [...]

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Remove the Border from a Blockquote

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Remove the Border from a Blockquote

Removing the Border from a Blockquote The standard Blockquote in WordPress using the Thesis Theme is pretty good as it is. However if you are like me and would prefer not to have a border running down the side, you can easily remove the border from a blockquote with one line of code in your [...]

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Capturing Email Addresses

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Capturing Email Addresses

Capturing Email Addresses When you get a visitor come to your blog, you are hoping that they will click one of your affiliate links embedded within your informative short articles and buy relevant products from the website you sent them to – a.k.a. Affiliate Marketing. But what if there was a way to monetize a [...]

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WordPress Backup 101 – Getting Your WordPress Backup Tools In Place

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WordPress Backup 101

Since my blog suffered a catastrophic failure a few weeks back causing me to rebuild everything from scratch, I have put in place a few measures to ensure that if such an event occurs again that I will be much better prepared and be back online much quicker than it originally took me. Over the [...]

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Reputation Management Tools – Manage Your Reputation Online

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Reputation Management Tools

In many situations throughout our lives, our reputation becomes one of the major factors that are focused on. For a large percentage of people, honesty and integrity is paramount. So then how do you ensure that your good name and reputation carries the information that only you choose? Reputation Management is essentially the process of [...]

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Google’s SEO Report Card – An Insight from Matt Cutts

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Google's SEO Report Card

Google’s SEO Report Card Google’s SEO Report Card is a project that Google commissioned in order to provide it’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Those optimizations were intended to not only help the various search engines understand the content of Google’s pages better, [...]

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