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 been made [...]

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You get used to some restrictions online when you live in Russia. There are a few novice server admins who block Russian IPs and I’ve lost count of the number of times an online order needed to be confirmed. “Yes I live in Russia. No, this credit card has not been stolen”. I think though [...]

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If you’re only going to bookmark one post this year, make it this one. Bill Slawski of Key Relevance has put together a comprehensive list of all granted patents granted to Google at the USPTO databases.
There are 169 granted patents in all, with 10 in there for Exaflop. A little more than one third focus [...]

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There’s a useful thread over at Google Webmaster Groups that highlights an issue with default filenames such as index.html and sitemaps. As user edralph888 explains:
The URL in our sitemap is in the format:
http://www.domain.com/index.html?whatever=value
The problem with Googlebot is that even though that is the URL we put in the sitemap, it doesn’t use that URL [...]

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John Mueller is a well known face in Google’s Webmaster Help Group and works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. Seeing as it’s Friday, he’s allowing people to send him Webmaster questions through the service.

I don’t know if this is official Google [...]

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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 [...]

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Here’s a quick link opportunity I’ll share with you. Quite a few people have pondered about getting links from the uber-popular Twitter. I had much the same thoughts as NickyCakes when I first saw that the only followed links in the service pointed to the posting applications.
Strangely enough there is a much easier link opportunity [...]

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As my regular readers know, we recently launched an RSS aggregator called SocialBlogroll.com. The project went very well and it’s now happily churning through 1500+ news feeds from the online marketing community. Viewing all those feeds and blogs made me realise that more than a few people out there aren’t aware of the following tips. [...]

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Top 5 Twitter tips, to make the system more productive and comfortable to use. I hope you find them useful.

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It’s not very Web 2.0 of us but today SocialBlogroll is out of beta. Thanks to everyone (esp. John and Lee) who have claimed their blog and helped us test the system.

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