James Schramko’s Fast Web Formula 2 is running in Sydney on September 10th, 11th and 12th and is shaping up to be even bigger and better than the original FWF which ran earlier this year. I’ve attended  several live events in the past 12 months, both in Australia and overseas, and FWF was hands-down the [...]

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Disable the Wordpress Upgrade Nag

by steveo on June 21, 2010

I love Wordpress – it’s awesome and it let’s me build fantastic and functional sites for my clients.
But I HATE that upgrade nag you get whenever a new release comes out.
Because invariably, one of my clients will log in, see the “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now.” message, and think that they are [...]

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Getting Good Backlinks to Your Site

Here is a pretty common type of question people have about SEO and link-building…
Hey MrSEO, I have another question if I may…
If you wanted to get good back links to a site what would be YOUR top three things
that you would do…?
I’m using videos with trafficGeyser and I’m getting frustrated that MarketSamurai
is not picking  them [...]

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Where Did Those Mystery Links Come From?

I was helping someone with an SEO question today – they had a fairly new site and done a few posts, some articles, forum posts and blog comments and were surprised to discover that they had somehow got over 2,500 links!!!
The question they asked me was “Where did all these links come from???”
Maybe it’s happened [...]

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Effective Problem Solving

Do you get frustrated by technology? When things go wrong – as they inevitably do – how do you go about solving them? Do you even know where to turn for help?
I was recently asked how it was that I seemed to just “know” how to fix stuff. My initial response was that it   comes [...]

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Full Frontal Nudity! (and other Tips For Writing Great Headlines)

Someone recently posed a question on how to come up with good headlines for blog posts, articles.
I’ll share a few tricks I use to get the creative juices flowing in a moment, but first what makes a great headline…?
Your headline really serves two purposes.
Firstly – and MOST importantly – your headline must Grab the Reader’s [...]

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Fun with Regular Expressions (RegEx)

I’ve been having fun with Regular Expressions today!
I was after a solution for one of my clients who posed this challenge…
When someone clicks on my ads, I want to send them to my index page (index.php), and I want to pass in information about the campaign as well as the keyword.
At the moment, these are [...]

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Cobbler’s children have no shoes

Hey,
This is kind of embarassing…
I’ve been handing out my (old) personal business cards at the internet marketing seminar I’m attending in Melbourne (Chris Howard’s Ultimate Marketing Seminar) . Of course, my personal business card has my personal website address on it (this website).
And I’ve just realized that a couple of weeks ago I decided [...]

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