Another phishing scam is circulating, following the lines of similar ones over the last few years. ie. Scare users into divulging logins and passwords by saying their access to something is finishing. Fortunately, the link in the one a client of mine has sent me has been deleted, so the damage has been minimised. But […]
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After repeatedly fixing up themes for SEO reasons, it gets a bit depressing that theme makers are not switched on about the basics. A common occurance is when the title of the site and the description of the site is formatted with H1 and H2 tags, these tags are important for search engine optimisation purposes.
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December was a busy month, with plenty of works to be done before everyone went on Holiday. Here are some of the new clients who came on board or have had new work done on their sites Ounuwhao Bed and Breakfast in Russell Oceania Marine Coatings Project Island Song Whangarei Heads Tourism Warlocks Car Alarms Nursing Agency
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Over the last few weeks there has been plenty of stories backwards and forwards about the quality of Google\’s results, specifically that the quality is going down. Google counter in an official blog post to counter that specifially by saying that search quality is better than ever (though conceding a short term increase recently) Penned
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I have a morbid fascination with the content of spam. They ways that these people try and avoid the antispam brigade can be quite hilarious. What I really can\’t understand is when something is this bad, that people still respond. Because, in the end, the proliferation of spam is collectively our own fault. If it
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Here is an interetsing video from Matt Cutts of Google with Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand, talking about future trends for search in 2011. They talk about the increased importance of social media in influencing ranking. While still small, it shows a shift towards social as a means of determining importance of content on the web. Towards the
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This is probably done all around the world, but even us in NZ get our own tax scam. Sent supposedly from inlandrevenue@newzealand.govt.nz (The wrong address, the source says it comes from dukecmimpo01.coxmail.com) their real emails are ending in ird.govt.nz. Tax Refund Form Get Tax Refund on your Debit Card *Please enter your name and a
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Such a small word, but surprisingly, it has immense connotations. I got to thinking about this after watching The Social Network, the movie about Facebook, it\’s genesis and growth. In the movie Mark Zuckerberg, the \”co-founder\” of Facebook has a lightbulb moment; that peoples relationship status is an incredibly important part of a persons profile. There
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There are many scams out there, Nigerian, Phishing among others. I have just received an email with our first Reservation scam. Here is the email Hello, I am John Jones the MD of GOD\’S TIME TRAVEL CONSULTANCY, i will be interested to know if you could assist me in getting an accommodation for my 3
Before the Internet stuff happened. Since the invention of the Internet, the same stuff happens, so what is the difference? The main difference is that more things are visible to everyday people. Things that were obscure for geographic reasons are no longer and can be viewed in all of their glory (or not). But specifically, things are
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