Morris

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Posts by Morris

Hack Firefox’s search to use another country’s server

November 18, 2009 - 12:40 am

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If, like me, you’re optimising sites for a particular country and you’re not there, Firefox’s standard geo-locating search bar isn’t much help.
Sure: you can change .com (or whatever), to .co.uk in the URL everytime – but, come on, why?
Add extra search engine servers to the Firefox Search Bar
For this example I’m going to add a [...]

Pick up some free Geocities links!

October 28, 2009 - 9:03 pm

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Ten years since they paid far too much for it, Yahoo! has pulled Geocities this week.
What does that mean for SEOs? Mostly, it means there are TONNES of links waiting to be picked up. 850 million, in fact, says a group called Majestic SEO.
Here’s the concept: thousands of these Geocities pages have been taken down. [...]

Remove “Category” from Wordpress URLS, maintain pagination

October 22, 2009 - 11:12 pm

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There’s now a great plugin for this!
See WP No Category Base to download and install the plugin. It does all that the hack below does, but better, and instantly.
In fact, I did have some issues with the hack after upgrading Wordpress, so found this plugin instead.

So this one’s been a killer for a long [...]

Fantastic online internship for students

October 20, 2009 - 7:59 pm

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A colleague recently forwarded this online intern opportunity for a student in media / communications or business / marketing studies.
As the document mentions, part of the role is utilising social media such as Facebook and Twitter, so I imagine most college students would have half the experience already – regardless of their discipline!
Having worked with [...]

Easy SEO Strategy: capitalise on your old content

October 1, 2009 - 2:44 am

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If you’ve found this, you’re no doubt up on SEO. Which means you’ve also probably got a tonne of old blog posts packed with juicy keywords?
Perhaps you’ve also found that your crawl rate is lower than it has been, and only a small portion of your site is indexed?
This was the case with Super Free [...]

Automatic backlinks, while you sleep!

September 29, 2009 - 5:06 pm

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If you haven’t heard of Automatic Backlinks yet, you’re missing out on one of the great new ways of gathering backlinks. Like many link-building platforms that have risen up of late, it’s about empowering webmasters to generate their own links in the simplest way. Read on for more!

Wordpress login page keeps reloading

June 13, 2009 - 11:56 pm

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It seems I’m not the only one that has had issues with the Wordpress login page (wp-admin) reloading itself without logging in.
I made a post on the Wordpress support thread with my fix, though thought I should expand here. This may not fix the issue for all users, as the reloading might be the result [...]

Adding Bing.com as a User Agent to Robots.txt

June 2, 2009 - 11:59 pm

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Sometimes it’s the absolute simplest questions that you have to dig around for online!
This had me stumped for five or ten minutes, until I saw a comment on the Bing Twitter.
Which user agent / bot does Bing.com use to crawl your site?
The answer is msnbot.
To add msnbot to your robots.txt file, add the following:
User-agent: msnbot

I want to work for you!

May 27, 2009 - 1:11 am

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After the trip to the UK with my current employer, I am back in Sydney, Australia and looking for the next challenge!
I’ve made an enjoyable progression over the last few years through Journalism, some authoring in Publishing, a few nights out Sydney-Socialising, playing Bingo Mogul at the top of Google with some SEO and, most [...]

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