1. Sitemaps Sitemaps are a great way of telling Google what pages you want to be indexed. Google will index your site regardless of using a sitemap, however, this tool makes it easier for Google to index those pages you want it to. You can exclude pages if you really want to, but you can […]
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I have just been reading Aardvark, a great local IT commentary site and the thoughts of it\’s author Bruce Simpson about the Section 92a protest to stop the introduction of \”guilt by accusation\” legislation. Bruce was quite condemning of the action so far by the NZ blogging community (plus a notable mention to Stephen Fry
Well done everyone! Controversial bill averted for now Read More »
I know this is a internet blog rather than a coders blog, but after a while of seeing this problem and not finding any help with it I thought I would post here about some success I had.
mysql_num_rows() problem… a solution Read More »
One thing that is a hot topic at the moment is paid links. Google has said for a few years that it frowns on the idea of paid links. This also includes paid posts that include links (I suppose essentially the same thing). Recently Google Japan was found to be doing just that and was
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On the 28th of February, anyone who is accused (not proven) of repeatedly downloading copyrighted material can have their internet access terminated. It is part of a revision of the Copyright Act Section 92a. In protest, the Creative Freedom Foundation is organising a virtual protest and is asking people to change their avatars and other
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Here is a great video that goes over some basic questions about SEO. Matt Cutts on You Tube – How to get better visibility on Google Once of the key things that Matt talks about is the 3 main meta tags. He goes to great lengths to talk about the benefits of the Title and
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A great piece by Tom Pullar-Strecker from The Dominion Post talks about the auto debit of credit cards for renewals of their anti virus software. He even says Website TechWeb has quoted former Symantec consumer-group chief EnriqueSalem saying it was also one of several \’\’revenue-generating\’\’strategies to \’\’pump up the consumer group\’s bottom line\’\’. This makes
Have Symantec lost faith in their own products? Read More »
I talked yesterday about the announcement from Telecom that they will be offering a service using VDSL2 technology to allow customers huge increases in broadband speed from around 5mbps to 50 mbps for downloads and from around 0.7 mbps to 20mbps upload. I also talked about whether these speeds will be theoretical maximums or reality.
Super Fast Broadband – Now the fine print starts to appear Read More »
Well the upgrade is done, my Fantastico updater won\’t work, so I have to do it myself.WordPress is a great blog system and the upgrades are not too frequent. Great instructions here and the files are here Everything worked a treat (at least publicly) so upwards and onwards!
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Telecom have announced their next generation broadband network will allow download speeds of up to 50mbps and upload of 20mbps. Now if this is true, it is going to make my life and many people who rely on the internet as a medium for large amounts of data. It also addresses one of my beliefs
VDSL2 – Is it going to be as good as they say? Read More »
