I was doing some SEO for an excellent site on Friday. Their on-page was excellent, and they had some desirable backlinks. One problem they did have though was duplicate content on their location-specific “doorway” pages - pages designed to rank for “Blue Widgets Ely”, “Blue Widgets Cambridge” etc
I proposed they at least “spun” the body [...]
Entries from April 27th, 2009
Simple PHP Article Spinner
April 27th, 2009 22 Comments
Tags: article spinning · google · php · seo · unique content
Dell Inspiron 1545 Design Issues
April 24th, 2009 1 Comment
Real world design is always a trade-off of features vs. budget, but having had a Dell Inspiron 1545 since January, and a Latitude D800 (IIRC) before that, maybe I can shed light on a few trade-offs too far:
1) The power socket should be at the back. If it *must* be on the side, at least [...]
Tags: dell laptop
Twitter: Create “Tweet This” links and icons quickly
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
I just built a quick “Tweet This Generator” for Twitter users who have blogs (which is a lot!)
Its self-explanatory and couldn’t, I think, be any easier to use.
Its hardly rocket science, but if you want a “Tweet This” button or link to paste onto your site quickly, this does the job:
http://www.alexpoole.name/php_stuff/tweet-this-generator.php
If you use it and [...]
Tags: lead generation · twitter · viral marketing
Know your strengths, ignore your weaknesses
April 14th, 2009 1 Comment
OK that title sounds pretty blasé, and if your weakness was an inability to - for example - see, whilst driving at 70, perhaps it would be best not to ignore it totally.
No. What I actually meant was capitalise on your strengths, and capitalise on other people who can cover your weaknesses. This way you [...]
Tags: networking
Twitter - How many of my followers also follow…
April 4th, 2009 No Comments
If you’ve never asked yourself this question: “how many of my followers also follow @xyz” then you might be surprised by some of the answers. Thing is, if you’re regularly re-tweeting some of the bigger twitter users, you might not realise that pretty much all of your followers already get to see their tweets. So [...]
Tags: retweet · twitter · twitter etiquette
