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Asian domains scam | Now in their 3rd year

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The Asian domain scam seems like it will never end! The scammers send an email titled Brand name dispute or similar, claiming someone is trying to buy domains that are associated with your business, and offering them to you instead I originally reported this domain scam back in August 2008

February 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Domain scams | Read More »

Buying the rights to a domain

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Having both the dot com (.com) and the dot com dot au (.com.au) domain for your business can be important, especially if you have future plans for marketing into the US or internationally in general. Unfortunately many/most of the viable dot com domains have been snapped up, often by  ’domain sitters’ who speculate on exactly this situation. [...]

February 16th, 2011 | Posted in Misc.,Tales from the trenches | Read More »

‘Geek speak free’ SEO whitepapers

Check out our geek speak free SEO White Papers We’ve written these on the common issues and misunderstandings we find in our  small business mentoring programs; SEO presentations and client engagements. We’ve done our best to keep these light and short (we’ve made them succinct i.e. less than 10 pages)  yet with enough relevant facts [...]

February 8th, 2011 | Posted in Misc. | Read More »

PageRank extension for Chrome

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If you enjoy the raw speed and uncluttered efficiency of Google’s browser Chrome you’ll find the PageRank extension very helpful when you are trying to track down the best links for your site. Down load it here on Chrome Fans  http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-plugins/chrome-pagerank-status-extension.htm If you’re not sure why you should be checking out PageRank then you should read Google [...]

February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Google PageRank,SEO Tools | Read More »

Google catches Bing stealing their search results

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Google catches Bing  stealing their search results The contentious  news topic in the search industry at the moment is did or does Bing use Goggle search results to refine their own ? Apparently  Google caught wind of this rumour and setup a sting and allegedly proved that Bing does in fact do this. I suppose there is a serious [...]

February 4th, 2011 | Posted in Google News | Read More »

Preview your Google Alerts for better targeting

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After blogging about Google Places back in 2008 (doesn’t time fly!) an update is overdue on this useful tool and its new preview feature! Google Alerts is a very useful tool that allows you to keep a close watch on anything new on the internet, and in the business world, monitoring what folks are saying about [...]

February 1st, 2011 | Posted in SEO Tools | Read More »