http://nickwilsdon.com Fri, 08 May 2009 16:44:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://nickwilsdon.com/12-defensive-steps-secure-sites-income/ WhosTalkin is a new search engine for the social media landscape. It searches across 40+ popular social media applications, providing in depth results not usually seen in the mainstream search engines. In their own words: WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the ... http://nickwilsdon.com/whostalkin-new-social-media-search-tool-launched/ There's nothing more annoying that constant reminders about events you are not planning to attend, so for my readers who are not going to PubCon, I apologise. However if you are planning on hitting Vegas next week, I'd like to meet you so here's a list of the available out-of-hours events ... http://nickwilsdon.com/after-hours-pubcon-conference-events/ I'm sure most of my small select readership are well aware of how to use a proxy IP but after writing my last post, a less-technical friend asked for more details. So here you are, a quick 10-minute guide to using a proxy IP. What is a Proxy IP? There are computers ... http://nickwilsdon.com/sem-basics-how-to-use-a-proxy-ip-in-firefox/ 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 ... http://nickwilsdon.com/alamo-national-wont-rent-cars-to-russians/ 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 ... http://nickwilsdon.com/key-relevance-compendium-of-google-patents/ Dr. David Klein has just opened registration for the PurposeInc Poker Tournament, to take place at the PubCon conference in Las Vegas next month. Last year's event was great fun and the most talked about entertainment event at the conference. If you're attending PubCon, sign up now! Don't worry if you're ... http://nickwilsdon.com/pubcon-poker-tournament-fightclub-2008/ 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, ... http://nickwilsdon.com/googlebot-strips-default-filenames-from-sitemap-urls/ When Dave Naylor first reported some issues with his blog, I fired up SERPGuard.com to check out his URL. Our tool interacts with Google's API to find compromised sites which are listed on their malware or phishing blacklists. Dave's pages were being dropped from Google's SERPs, which raised my suspicions ... http://nickwilsdon.com/daven-blog-hack-questions-google/ 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 ... http://nickwilsdon.com/john-mueller-answering-webmaster-questions-on-twitter/