Category: Personal Musings
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davidairey.com hacked and hijacked!
What is the world coming to? Someone just stole David Airey’s url. Can you imagine that? Now, if you go to www.davidairey.com, you see a “parking” page rather than his highly popular blog! David has moved his stuff over to a new url: http://www.davidairey.co.uk Somehow, the hacker managed to contact David’s domain reseller and got…
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Do we understand context and point-of-view?
There is a difference, you know, between speaking and communicating. But many people, while they are aware of this, I mean, any 101-class you attend will tell you that; yet it is difficult sometimes in practice. Context and point-of-view are very important when communicating. My thirteen year old daughter gave us an object lesson in…
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Another Thought on Google’s Actions
Dana commented that Google seemed to be making their own ranking irrelevant as they force more and more people to ignore it. Well, that’s an interesting thought. You see, when Google makes your blog have a zero page rank, what they are saying is, your content is totally irrelevant to any search that a person…
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Merry Christmas!
Sorry, I cannot wait… I gotta, I need to…. make this post There are other versions, ok? But… I just love this song by Brenda Lee:
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SEO, Google Slap, Casino…
As everyone must be aware by now, my little webby is now a PR0 (Page Rank = 0 for the uninitiated). Looks like Google does not like anyone making paid posts. So, how is the blogging hobbyist to make a few bucks online? Only with Adsense? I wonder if this is how you become a…
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Do you love marketing?
Everywhere you go, you here people bitching about their work. It seems like no one likes their job. So, do you like marketing? Many people believe that marketing is a passionate industry. The more passionate you are about it, the better you are at it. Asking if you love marketing could possibly be another way…
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Alternatives to Google’s Page Rank
Well, there are lots of alternatives to Google’s Page Rank. We have the Alexa, then there is Technorati’s much talked about ranking, and of course there is RealRank. RealRank has finally been adopted by PayPerPost, which is quite a good thing as it is a flat ranking system. What this means is that it simply…
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Blogger You Helping Google Shoot Yourself?
For the past few months, I am sure many of you have been reading about how Google have been going around “downgrading” the Page Rank of bloggers who do paid blogging, in particular, PayPerPost. Well, I guess that is life. Things happen and other things happen. But the irony that I see here, is the…