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Entries from November 26th, 2008

Chrome Update - woohoo

November 26th, 2008 1 Comment

Well Google have released a Chrome update. Version 0.4.154.25 fixes the following problems:my.rackspace incompatibilityrentacoder.com incompatibility..and possibly Wordpress too. I’ll see when I press publish :) 

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Anti-malware & PC Security - are the criminals the best marketers?

November 26th, 2008 No Comments

I just read this article about fake malware scans. Its scary quite how sophisticated criminals trying to get their malware onto your PC (and charge you for it!) seem to have become. I’m relatively IT savvy and this could easily have got me. How about you? As the author says, these guys are so much [...]

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Outsourcing work? Don’t exclude the First World..

November 21st, 2008 3 Comments

I just posted a small development project on RentaCoder. 
It would have taken me 2-3 days to write but I just don’t have the time at the moment, and with a few quid left over at the end of the month, I thought I’d afford myself the luxury of paying someone else to do the work [...]

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Plumber in London E14 - need your plumbing sorted?

November 17th, 2008 No Comments

My colleague Jake has recently put up a new site for his brother who is a Plumber in London E14.
Apparently Liam is a dab hand with a wrench and will try not to flood your kitchen or suck his teeth whilst discussing price.
Jake’s job is now to develop some content for - and links to - the [...]

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MSN Ranking Loophole Promotions Sneak Peek

November 17th, 2008 No Comments

Chris Rempel posted a very interesting peek into the numbers behind the promotion of his runaway success the MSN Ranking Loophole.
Some “big name” marketers promoted the product to their lists and achieved pretty dire conversions. Other smaller players - unknowns effectively - promoted the product to tiny lists, and achieved excellent results.
The lesson - yes [...]

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Google publish their own Google SEO Guide

November 17th, 2008 No Comments

Never thought I’d see the day when Google themselves published an SEO guide!
Its hardly groundbreaking grey-hat SEO advice of course, but a great 101 from the horse’s mouth nonetheless.
Hat tip to John Allen for spotting this one.
You can download the Google SEO Guide here.

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Ultimate Search Engine Loophole - Review and My Bonus

November 7th, 2008 1 Comment

I’ve now fully read the Ultimate Search Engine Loophole product.
It will be difficult to produce a useful review without giving away any of the content of the product, but I’ll try!
Firstly, as one would expect from Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly, everything promised in the sales letter is there.
The product really does show - in [...]

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The World’s Best Signature?

November 6th, 2008 4 Comments

Wicked. Go here: http://seopressformula.com (<– not aff link!) , scroll to the bottom and check out Brian’s signature. Absolutely classic

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open_basedir restrictions in Plesk doing your head in? RackerHacker to the Rescue!

November 6th, 2008 No Comments

http://rackerhacker.com/2007/06/30/remove-all-open_basedir-restrictions-in-plesk/
Just prevented me from jumping out the window instead of restarting Plesk for the 54th time this week.
Thanks man!

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“Cracking the MSN Code” - my VRE results so far

November 5th, 2008 No Comments

I’m pretty pleased with this actually.
Spots 2-5 inclusive on Google for “MSN Ranking Loophole”
Of course by the time you read this the SA’s will have slammed me onto page 5, so I grabbed a screeny quick while it was there!
MSN Ranking Loophole SERPs

and.. of course, Video is just another type of VRE, and did I [...]

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