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I got an email from Jim Messenger today asking me to fix up my Property Investment directory. Well, it needs it, just not for the reasons that Jim was talking about.

Take a look at this! (more…)

It’s less than a month to V-E decision day and the front runners are starting to pull out all the stops to make their site #1. If the comps are meant to simulate the real life efforts of SEO consultants then we all need a wake up call. They no longer do. The level of sophistication has increased and the tricks and traps to get that one day peak won’t lead to anything we’ll use for our real clients.

To check out the current standing go to Google.

As always the Celiac v7ndotcom elursrebmem webcam gets my vote and you can read more about the V-E competition on this page and at my V-E lens.

Oh, I couldn’t resist the graphic from BizUnlim

I discovered the concept of Lens a while ago and have recently revisited them at Squidoo. You can see my meagre efforts of exposing

• SEO Tips
• Forum Posters
• Auckland
• Digg.com
• BMX in New Zealand

A lens is basically a single page fact sheet. You could have one for every day of your life I guess, or for every topic which interests you. It’s not designed to be a blog, but as a collection I guess there is some cross over.

Squidoo have included the basics of writing articles, lists, including RSS feeds and images. They’ve even found a way to monetise it with revenue sharing.

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A common question in the forums is

I’ve had an email from a company saying they will guarantee my sites will be indexed by Google within 7 days. Is this a good deal?

that would be from a company saying things like

Based on our research, G-Submit ensures that the vast majority of web pages will be included in the main search engine results pages of Google within 7 days of service completion. And the good news is that G-Submit is totally within the guidelines of best practices set out by Google, so you won’t be penalized.

Bollocks! Ofcourse it’s within the guidelines, but should we pay for it? No Way!

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SEO experts despair! I launched a small forum recently and as I mucked about at Open Source CMS trying to decide which software to use I renamed the test category “SH20 Activists”.

Open Source CMS refresh their test systems every hour so I know that the forum lasted no more than 60 minutes, and probably considerably less! (more…)

It’s good to see Link Vault step up and work to keep the network clean. Granted I was an offender but I totally support their stand and am glad to see them tighten things up. They’ve sent me a nice, brief email and left it up to me to clean up my account too - rather than just taking over and throwing the item out. It’s official too, and listed as item #15 in their guidelines.

Mike Dammann from BlogParty is one of those people with infectious optimism and energy. His blogs are spawned all over the web and I lose track of what, where and why.

BlogParty now seems to be just a blog, with the forum moving back to it’s blogparty.com domain. Lets hope the hosting is more reliable than some of the others used!

So, to try and drum up some attention, he’s offering $250 in a prize draw for bloggers mentioning BlogParty. The only problem is that by blogging about it you’re likely to increase the number of contestants and reduce your chances of being picked. Damn Dammann!