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Excerpt: Nofollow may not have succeeded in stopping the spam comments, but does that mean it's useless? Nofollow may still have it's place... If a link on your site includes the nofollow attribute, you are telling the search engines not to count the link as a favourable vote from you. Nofollow was in...(more)

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Excerpt: How to constantly keep your ear to the ground & keep yourelf up to date on what people are saying online about you, your competitors and your industry in general. There are two easy steps - 1. Get an RSS reader and 2. Subscribe to Technorati Searches. If you know about RSS and RSS readers, but...(more)

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Excerpt: In talking to people today, both at the Open Coffee morning and generally during the day, I kept coming back to Findability and SEO and the difference between the terms. I try to think in terms of Findability rather than SEO as a general rule. Findability should be your goal, with SEO playing it...(more)

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Excerpt: Why would you need Blog Consultancy? This is a good question - the software is free and everything you need to know is on the internet, so why would you need a consultant? The simple answer is that you don't unless as a business you need your blog to be effective and don't have the in-house expe...(more)

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Excerpt: If your WordPress blog does not appear to be accepting pingbacks, if pingbacks are not appearing in your comment section or comment moderation queue you could be having the same issue I was having with a blog this evening. It turned out the issue was not with receiving pingbacks as such, it was ...(more)

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Excerpt: If you are using a hosted version of WordPress then you may find this article useful, it will help you check if your links are split between www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com and it will help you consolidate those links, which should help with your search engine results. You may have heard t...(more)

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Excerpt: From 1 April 2007 new company disclosure requirements will come into effect for all company websites and electronic communication (email). The full details are available from the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement or simply see below what the practical steps involved are. The main i...(more)

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Excerpt: For most online professionals involved in any facet of online marketing, website tracking and statistics is the core bedrock of data for analysis from which to work from. However even for those who don't live and breathe things such as clickthrough percentages, page views per visitor or referrer so...(more)

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Excerpt: There are as many approaches to blogging as there are people out there. This article is about thinking through your strategy for business blogging before you leap in. The question is what are you trying to achieve? Are you blogging to raise your industry profile, sell something, or generate leads? H...(more)

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Excerpt: What does it take to do business online? Fundamentally it takes a product or service, competitive pricing, an attractive usable interface, traffic and the ability to convert a portion of that traffic into sales. This sounds straightforward and, if not easy, at least doable. However many business on...(more)