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Help charity and get a free pr8 backlink

This is one of those few win-win situations in search engine optimisation
You can get yourself a highly trusted link from a site with a pagerank 8 homepage for absolutely no cost – and you get to support a charity whilst doing it.
Sounds good? Well all you need to do is head over to [...]

SearchEngineOptimisation.org for sale

We are currently looking to sell the Searchengineoptimisation.org business.
If you are interested in getting more details, please fill in the contact form below.

American Spelling Issues, Part 2

Well I guess this one is a little less dramatic than having our Google.co.uk search results forced into American spellings. (Hobo Web post on that here, Online Sales rant here and our post on when they rolled it back).
We decided to list our site on business.com (listing page here). Seems they have ever so helpfully [...]

BBC allowing spammers to run wild

I’ve been getting more and more annoyed about this, and figured the best way to do something about it would be to get the word out there, get people talking about it and hopefully this will change.
The BBC currently seem happy to let spammers over run their blogs, and will happily give them dofollow links [...]

Online Backup for Wordpress Sites

Backup-Technology.com have released a free plugin for backing up Wordpress sites online.
There is really no excuse for not keeping proper backups of your site – relying on your host to be carrying out suitable backups is not a solution either.
This plugin gives you 50mb of free space – more than enough for the average blog.  [...]

Poker.org sold for $1m

In a record breaking sale for .org domains, poker.org has been sold by Sedo to Pokercompany.com, who are a big player in the affiliate market for online gambling.
The largest previous sale for a .org domain was engineering.org for $198,000 (and is currently 301′ing to what could be called a low value .info domain!)
It will be [...]

Dotstrar.com

Just a quick warning post if you are thinking about using them to register domains – don’t!
We had a domain with them, they emailed us to renew it which we done with Paypal. They are refusing to answer emails, and if you click the support tab on their site all it says is
Great Success
Apache is [...]

Web Directories and Hypocrisy

Does this not bother anyone else?
Its starting to get a little annoying that some directory owners are demanding far more from sites submitted to them than they are willing to provide themselves. I’m not going to out the directory in question here, but I sent this email to one yesterday:
Hi,
I’m not sure if my site [...]

Paypal restrict Indians use of their services

Paypal restrict Indians use of their services

As I am sure a lot of you will know, a lot of the lower end link building market is dominated by Indian webmasters.  Last week Paypal started sending this email to people who had sent money to Indian webmasters  marked as “personal payment” or “gift”.
Your payment of $XX.XX has been returned to you. If [...]

seoppc.co.uk – warning about this dishonest company

seoppc.co.uk – warning about this dishonest company

This post is here to serve as a warning about seoppc.co.uk and their business practices.
I was contacted recently By Jim Wilson at seoppc.co.uk. He asked me for a couple of business related things, I wasn’t interested and turned it down.
I then agreed I would let him publish a guest article on this blog in return [...]