I am having to learn copywriting (quite a bit of the poetry I wrote in my twenties was published so I have hope of managing copy too). I wish I had more clients who could write copy as well. What any website needs is more great copy. As opposed to machine generated or offshore article […]
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Licensing Photos
Sometimes a website can be setup to help one party and instead help another. For one of my websites, I need to license some photos. I haven’t had the right language for the contract. I looked at the contracts from the stock agencies but they were way too elaborate. I tried to find a local […]
Is there going to be a real estate crash?
I ran across the most amazing niche website yesterday – dedicated to the possibility of a crash in house prices in the UK…. His forecast for house prices is for “a 30 to 40 per cent fall over the next three to four years”, a fall he describes as “a healthy correction”.
Free Proxies and Anonymous Internet Surfing
Great guidance on how to anonymise your surfing via proxies: Hiding Your IP Address, Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO. The danger is that unless you do it just right you risk more than you gain. Specifically that the proxy holder can grab all your unencrypted passwords (email, site logins).
Quality Directory Lists
Our clients are ready for another round of SEO. One component we will be doing more of in this round is directories. It’s too tedious and slow to have someone senior do it. There are lots of directory submission services. But you want to be sure to be applying to directories worth being listed in. […]
Is Dynadot selling our domain name searches?
Dynadot is a great company. Nowhere better to register one’s domain names. Why? fair prices great backend interface fast loading website (for a domain registrar where one spends a lot of time doing repetitive actions, speed is extremely important telephone support But lately Dyandot has been getting a lot of bad press for purportedly selling […]
oDesk: Developers for Developers
What’s oDesk really like? Good coders or rip-off artists? Virtual sweatshop or onsite outsourcing? Hard facts from opinionated users.
Top Article Directories for SEO
We are planing to start using article much more often for What are the top article directories to submit to? Here are fellow Canadian (and alas article spammer pro) JGot A Question Or Comment For Jason?
Making Money with Other People’s ClickBank Products?
Trying to make money with other people’s clickbank products? It’s not as easy as it looks. Here’s one guy’s experience: I’ve been getting my ass handed to me by Google trying to promote "successful" clickbank products. Seems the product owner and one affiliate are making sales but not me even with good ctr and position. […]
The Opt-In Email Marketing System
This tip comes from one of those hardcore marketing sites. What do I mean by hardcore? They are selling marketing education to marketers or even to non-marketers (hardcore giveaway in the excerpt below: dubious punctuation and capitalisation). But as our clients move to building prospect lists and incorporating informative sequential autoresponders, we are seeking ways […]
Using robots.txt to avoid CMS Duplicate Content penalties from Google
Many people are focused on duplicate content penalties. I’ve haven’t seen the duplicate content issues as big a problem as people make it out to be but here are some very helpful tips on handling vBulletin to reduce any chance of duplicate indexing. 1) disable the "search engine friendly" archive. All this does is create […]
Editing WordPress Pages with Ecto
As most of you know by now we are big users of Ecto for editing our weblogs, across all platforms including WordPress and Typepad. Lack of Ecto support for WordPress is one of the main reasons I stuck with Typepad so long. Ecto just makes things so much faster and more convenient. One very large […]
Online Video for Clients
This is a great commercial website which has really taken advantage of online video – they call it Topskips TV but it’s really just rubbish bins. A very visual demonstration of their rubbish containers of different sizes, it’s certainly easy to watch. Topskips TV has convinced of the value of video on the web. It […]
Foiling Email Harvesters and Coping with Spam
A very interesting discussion at Slashdot earlier this month about how to stop spam. There were many suggestions involving images with obscured characters, but that’s just not acceptable for business. A lot of these suggestions are fine for personal sites; but if you’re actually in business they aren’t practical.We use Javascript. You don’t want to […]
Forums for WordPress sites: bbPress
Time for some forums for client sites.Second I wanted to introduce an old friend you are all probably familiar with from our support forums, bbPress…. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light.
Immediate help with images
Here’s a bit of PHP code to get some images up on your website in a hurry: Lussumo Filebrowser.
Download YouTube Videos Hasslefree | Great Linkbait
Download your YouTube videos hasslefree and for free. Great job Techcrunch. Nice tool. Not overcommercialised (looking at you SEOchat.com).
A Short History of Free Proposals
Veerle Pieters lashed out recently at freeloader clients. The client in question would be a big client (city website in Belgium). That particular city wasn’t content with a design mockup alone oh no they even had the audacity to state that the design revisions to that mockup had to be free too. You only got […]
Weblog Posting in Firefox
My acquaintance Nick Wilson of threadwatch.org fame (founding editor) has created an interesting Firefox plugin for posting to one’s weblog directly from within the browser.
Eastern European Success Stories for the Taking
Learn more about successful projects by emerging Czech companies taking over the market.
