Akismet in Plain Text

Akismet is one of the greatest aids to blogging spam free, ever.
However, showing the spam caught count using the widget uses a blue box with a white background, which, let’s face it, doesn’t fit in with every theme.
As a result, I went scouting through the code, and found that the following can be used to […]

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Permalinks on Wordpress

If you’re serious about blogging with Wordpress, Permalinks are important. They change your blog sub-urls from how it’s shipped (something like ?p=3 ) to much prettier stuff, the format of which, you choose. Wordpress themselves wrote about it here, but some people feel it’s not simple enough. You must have an apache webserver for this […]

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What Do You Expect To "Get" Out Of Image Search Traffic?

Posted by Jane Copland
At any given time, our Q&A section usually features a question or two about image optimisation. People want to know why their images haven’t been indexed or aren’t appearing for their key terms, even after they have added keywords to every imaginable attribute. Appropriate anchor text, nearby-keywords and relevant surrounding content don’t […]

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Who Has the Best Link Building Techniques?

Posted by randfish
I wanted to try an experiment tonight and leverage a bit of the terrific community vibe and willingness to share we’ve got here at SEOmoz.
In the comments below, share your top 3 most bizarre, unique, unconventional, or simply unexpected link building tactics. They can be specific, broad, or even a little coy. The […]

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Web Design for ROI: Chapter 3, Managing for ROI

Posted by rebecca
In an earlier post I had mentioned that I started reading Web Design for ROI by Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus (check out their website for more information on the book). Today I thought I’d share some tidbits from chapter 3, Managing for ROI.

Chapter 3, Managing for ROI, provides a list of considerations […]

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I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO

Posted by randfish
Ever since SEOmoz took venture capital investment last fall, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs and sites geared towards the startup world. Even though we’ve been around for 5 years (and Gillian and I have been doing web marketing for 10), I still think of us very much like a startup - […]

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Google to spin off search marketing side of Performics

I’m crunching on a bunch of work stuff today, but I wanted to point out this official Google blog post briefly:

Since we closed the acquisition of DoubleClick on March 11, we’ve been immersed in integration planning for each of our products and business units. Recently we completed this process for the DoubleClick Performics businesses, and […]

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Okay, enough foolishness. Back to work.

Update: This post was an April Fool’s joke as well. I was hoping to catch people off-guard by doing a late-night post after all the other pranks were out there. Clicking on the video link just gets you rickrolled in a creative way.
Okay, I admit that my “I’m tired of April Fool’s” post was just […]

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iPhone can connect to anything!

Update: This was an April Fool’s day joke.
I recently discovered something really wild: the iPhone has a secret SATA interface. Using the SATA interface, the iPhone is much easier to hack because it looks just like a hard drive to a computer, so you can replace individual executables and symlinks with no effort. Readers know […]

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My tattoo

Update: This was an April Fool’s Day joke.
As I mentioned in my last post, I got a tattoo this past weekend. Several people have asked about it by email, so I’ll go ahead and post a couple shots of it. I decided to get a Firefox tattoo because it’s a cool design and I really […]

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