Working in the space of social media is never boring.
This week has been nuts. I’m getting so much content writing business (linkbaiting) that I am having to increase the price. I’ve only been down to the beach twice this year and it’s only 20mins away. So it’s going up from $500/ ?250 to $1,000/ ?500 [...]

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1. They work
2. It worked for David Letterman
3. Women’s magazines love them
4. It will help you get on Digg, Netscape, Reddit and even Sphinn
5. I can count to ten

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I swear Stumbleupon has some of the worst explained functions, I’m surprised there is not more help out there. It took me a while before I actually knew the send a page to a friend thing actually existed, then much scratching of the head to figure out where it was.
If you stumble a page and [...]

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I’m getting tired looking at my ugly mug so I am going to try out a new avatar. It’s also pointed out to me that I look like I just came of the set of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

The new avatar is Iggle Piggle, from a BBC kids show called the Night Garden, [...]

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Since the redesign of Stumbelupon I have been using it more and more these days as a place to find interesting stories, interesting people and to share interesting stories.
I have culled a lot of dead beat friends and added a bunch of new ones in my industry. Basically, if you submit stories about SEO, social [...]

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Maki over at Doshdosh has a make money online blog and he has outlined four characteristics of successful linkbait, which got me thinking and inspired me to add my own.
What are the characteristics of successful linkbait?
1. A killer headline
A headline is not 50% of the equation. It’s 100% of the first step in the equation, [...]

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Lets be honest. There are a number of reasons you shouldn’t be reading this.
1. I can’t spell for shit.
2. I use a lot of English slang which people over in the colonies, who had a hissy fit at paying a few taxes so they threw their tea in the water and went from George Washington [...]

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One thing I have realised whilst dabbling in the world of SEO consultancy, is that a lot of the business is geographical. I put this down to the fact that people who live in the real world and not online tend to like face to face transactions.
So what I would like to do, is link [...]

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An SEO pal and client of mine keeps getting banned from social sites as he tries to sell his wares. Dude, I tell him, “you have to get involved”. They are not called social sites without reason.
When a search engine optimiser gets success from doing anything that works (there is no such thing as ethics [...]

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Finally Darren Rowse updates his Wordpress design. What do you think? The last one was getting raggedy at the edges and loose at the seams. The problem I had with the last design was the colour. Not a big fan of the low contrast, pastel.

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