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Entries from July 30th, 2009

PDFTK on Fedora Core 8 x86_64

July 30th, 2009 No Comments

PDFTK rocks, but the fact you can’t just “yum install” it in FC8 doesn’t. You can read all the gory details somewhere else. This is just the solution.
Wow. That took nearly 2 hours Googling. I spent a while trying to make from source too… Nope
Just do what it says here:
http://thevedic.net/wordpress/2008/12/02/building-pdftk-pdf-toolkit-on-fc9/
(it worked for the [...]

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ISVirtual - Lead Capture, Conversion and CRM

July 23rd, 2009 No Comments

I’m proud to finally unveil our new venture, ISVirtual.
I’ve teamed up with an SEO specialist and a CRM specialist to offer a new type of agency - one that concentrates solely on online activities that improve your bottom line.
We’re offering the following services:
- Lead Generation, through SEO, PPC and Social media marketing
- Lead Capture (setting [...]

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Google Slaps “Conduit” Affiliate Review Sites

July 22nd, 2009 2 Comments

Interesting heads up via Perry Marshall overnight:
“ A new “Google Slap” for Product Review Sites is targeting Affiliates.
This in from Glenn Livingston (www.LivingstonPPC.com) - I’ve posted his
email on my blog:
http://www.perrymarshall.com/product-review-google-slap/ ”
This makes sense from Google’s point of view, as more people implement skinny “conduit” sites, attempting to shoehorn themselves into existing revenue flows. The fact that “fat” [...]

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iPhone 3GS Video Pause

July 11th, 2009 1 Comment

Short version: Please can we have a pause  button (that doesn’t start a new clip) on the video camera app for the iPhone 3GS?
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Cool, so I finally got a 3GS. Maybe I’ll write a proper considered review at a later point when I have more than a couple of seconds. In the mean time I just wanted [...]

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Top Linking Secrets

July 7th, 2009 No Comments

If you reviewed my post the other day about  linking secrets for top Google positions, you may already have come across Neil Shearing’s Top Linking Secrets. It is a large PDF report you can download with a number of excellent bonuses (including step-by-step videos) which takes you right from “what are backlinks?” into multiple advanced techniques [...]

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Are top 10 Google Positions really that hard?

July 3rd, 2009 5 Comments

Some people think that doing SEO to get top 10 positions in Google is akin to rocket science.
If you see my previous post and then check Google UK for the obviously targeted keyphrase, you’ll see clearly that its not!
Its bobbing around a bit, probably because it was over-optimised, but for a fairly non-competitive phrase (48k [...]

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