The Best Way To Take A Website Screenshot And Publish? Goo.gl

The Best Way To Take A Website Screenshot And Publish? Goo.gl

I sometimes use the Goo.gl URL shortening service, albeit very rarely. Today I noticed that it created a rather handy screenshot of the webpage that I shortened a URL for. Got…

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Content Marketing Show 2012 – Part 2 – Stories, Data, Journalism

OK, on with the show. Last night I started writing up some notes from the Content Marketing Show 2012. Today I continue. As promised, I will keep this short and…

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The Content Marketing Show – Holborn, November 2012

The Content Marketing Show – Holborn, November 2012

Today I skived off proper work to sit on a series of uncomfortable chairs at the inaugural Content Marketing Show, which was organised by the chap behind Brighton SEO (which…

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WordPress Password Hijkack? pwd = W1seb0x50

As I have mentioned before I run several WordPress sites, and on them I have a firewall that reports any odd goings ons. Today a bunch of sites had this…

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Evil Photo Editing Software!

Evil Photo Editing Software!

On Halloween I saw a few scary profile photos. People had editing their usual profile pic to make themselves look evil, dead, like a witch, vampire or zombie etc. The…

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Our New Guide To Star Wars

Our New Guide To Star Wars

Well, Star Wars is now owned by Walt Disney. This will mean some great new rides at Disney World, and finally we get to see the next instalments of the Star Wars…

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Google’s Bad Advertising Practices

Google’s Bad Advertising Practices

OK, I will be clear – Google are certainly not breaking any rules. It’s just, I disapprove. They do not meet my quality guidelines. Why? They are currently running an…

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Grumpy Dragons in the Den

Grumpy Dragons in the Den

I should start by saying I love Dragons Den, and really enjoy hearing the opinions of those super-cool business men and women. But, I just looked at the Beeb’s Dragons…

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Google’s EMD Update May Be Costly For Small Internet Businesses

Earlier this year Google rolled out one of its last major updates that are designed to combat web-spam. We had Panda, fighting the low quality content, then Penguin, tackling link…

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Why Do So Many Websites Fail On The Most Basic SEO?

I added a link checker to EssexPortal.co.uk and had loads of broken links caused by design changes, e.g. links to index.html now failing. I was tempted to start contacting some…

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Jimmy Saville, the Grey, Shadowy Figure in the Background

Jimmy Saville, the Grey, Shadowy Figure in the Background

News Over the Years – Hindsight or Warnings? OK, today I decided to Google Jimmy Saville in the news, but not recent news (clouded with all the claims of child…

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The Internet is Like Ancient Egypt ……

The Internet is Like Ancient Egypt ……

I originally saw this on Google+, someone called Joshua Roy shared it first I think. Made me laugh. I then thought that we should be OK until some crazy fools start…

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Unbelievable Changes to SEO – Read Now!

Unbelievable SEO mishmash

Over the last couple of years Google has made some radical changes to the way it ranks webpages in its search index. Many of the these changes have resulted in…

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Target Surfers by Age and Gender with Adwords

I guess this is a new feature, at least, I had not noticed before. Just logged in to Google Adwords and saw a new announcement: “New! Reach people based on…

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Another Russian Invasion – WordPress Uploadify Targeted

Uploadify.php is a jQuery plugin that provides a way to upload files to a Wordpress blog without having to use the Media Upload in the admin area. Unfortunately, the plugin…

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