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12 Defensive Steps To Secure Your Sites & Income

Nick Wilsdon — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:11 +0000

It’s easy to avoid disasters with hindsight and hopefully 10yrs as a domain registrar, web producer and marketer has given me some. In my opinion, here are 12 defensive steps which you should take right now. 1. Ensure Your Domains Have Accurate WHOIS records Sounds simple but you wouldn’t believe how many domain registrations have Continue reading →

GSiteCrawler Now On Ubuntu

Nick Wilsdon — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:02:28 +0000

I went cold-turkey on Windows at the beginning of this year, installing Ubuntu on my work station. It’s been frustrating at times, when you have to learn to do tasks again but you soon adapt. One thing I have missed though are some Windows tools and applications. Most have been replaced, even PhotoShop has a Continue reading →

7 Google Docs Templates For Search Marketers

Nick Wilsdon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:59:07 +0000

Earlier this month, Google gave their users access to a free library of document templates. I found time last night to dig around and discovered some useful ones for search marketers. To save you some time, here are direct links to the ones I downloaded. 1. Non Disclosure Contract (NDA) An NDA is an essential Continue reading →

Check Your Feeds: Latest WordPress 2.5x Blanks RSS

Nick Wilsdon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:35:10 +0000

Sorry if it’s seemed a bit quiet round here recently. The latest WordPress versions 2.5.0/2.5.1 have a bug which kills off some RSS addresses. If you look at the feed URL in a browser it will have no posts there or errors. It may have done the same to your blog too, so have a Continue reading →

Free Tool For Google Malware & Phishing Blacklists: Launching SERPGuard

Nick Wilsdon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:51:06 +0000

SERPGuard is a free alert service that checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists for your domain(s). You may create an account, log in and add all your sites into one simple interface. If our system detects any of your URLs on the Google phishing or malware blacklists, we will send you an RSS message and Continue reading →

Encyclopaedia Britannica Opens Online Community

Nick Wilsdon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:21:34 +0000

Britannica have announced in their blog that they will open up their online encyclopedia to online contributions, placing them into direct competition with Wikipedia. This new initiative will mean a complete redesign of the site. Under their current subscription model, only a small part of their content is published on the web. They intend to Continue reading →

Free SEO PDF e-Book By Dan Thies

Nick Wilsdon — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:29:00 +0000

Dan Thies is one of the most experienced SEOs in the industry, so when he releases a post or e-book you’d be wise to pay attention. Dan has just completed his updates for his free e-book “SEO Fast Start 2008″ and posted it to his site. You can download it here This e-book is an Continue reading →

Why Everyone Should Learn the 80-20 Rule

Nick Wilsdon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:14:53 +0000

One of my luxuries as an ex-pat living in Russia is receiving my copy of The Week. It contains all the important material from the UK newspapers condensed down into one magazine. One section I usually skip over are the obituaries, but this week one of them caught my eye. Joseph Juran, the father of Continue reading →

Facebook Overtakes MySpace On Alexa

Nick Wilsdon — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:22:33 +0000

According to Alexa, the daily reach of Facebook has exceeded MySpace. They track the daily reach for Facebook as 5.5% of internet traffic vs. 5.4% for MySpace.

StumbleUpon Leading Charge Into Social Search

Nick Wilsdon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:58:50 +0000

As a basic summary, StumbleUpon (SU) allows you to recommend and review web sites that interest you. You can also stumble or view the websites that your friends have recommended.
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