I’ve been catching up on my SEO reading over the holidays, in particular SEOMoz posts. One post I spent time on was benjarriola’s on managing duplicate content at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical. Previously I thought you only used the...

I had a bunch of reports I would regularly run in AdWords for clients. In particular, reporting by month for a campaign or ad group. It was really handy for seeing trends in campaigns and ad groups over time, comparing August this year with August in 2009 and 2008 and even 2007. Can’t...

I have a problem. I want to rebuild my Halloween site, but I think I’ve left it too late for this year. It’s currently just a hand-built site, which means it’s lightweight, runs quickly, and is really well optimised for SEO. So good that its currently on page 1 at Google for...

gotta say bing is nice is some ways. it’s shorter to type than google. and it really loves my old-fashioned hyphenated domain names. i was playing with my online shopping site – www.myonlineshops.com.au tonight, cos a couple of shops asked if they could be added. then thought...

It’s faster to search for “keyword tool”, than to type in the address. Especially when I know Google will always display the result that I want in the first position. But the above result shows two similar results. Look closely. Yes, there are slight differences –...

I had to drive into the city last night for a dance lesson. Was pretty happy to find a generous parking spot across the road from the St James Hotel. But unfortunately FailPerson – the St James Jerk was there. It took me 5-6 attempts to get my car straight, with enough room not to get...