Ethan Smith is taking the piss, right?
A new way to drive traffic perhaps?
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Block Categories in Robots.txt?
Michael Gray advisers in his WP advice video: block categories in Robots.txt to help Google SERPs.
Interesting.
We all know duplicate content is bad in Google, but it never dawned on me to consider category pages. I’ve got some work to do in the next couple of days 🙂
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Will the success of the Wii affect Harvey Norman’s Share Price
Latest Wii news: Wii is outselling PS3 2 to 1 in the US.
Question for Australian readers: Harvey Norman, arguably Australia’s biggest retailer of computer + electrical goods doesn’t stock Nintendo’s Wii, not just the console but the games either. The mind boggles as to why, but knowing that the Wii is a huge success, indeed supply is still a massive issue where I live from people I’ve talked to, will Harvey Norman not stocking the Wii affect the bottom line and therefore its share price? OK, so folks in Sydney and Melbourne have a huge range of choice in terms of retailers, in Regional Western Australia we don’t, and Harvey Norman is the biggest local seller, and yet I can’t buy Wii games there, I have to go to Target, BigW or EB Games, and that’s time I may have spent in a Harvey Norman store, not only buying Wii titles but also walking past the variety of other goods Harvey Norman sells. It’s money I’m spending with Coles Myer and Woolworths and not Harvey Norman. The PS3 is due out this week for memory in Australia, nearly $1k for the base model, can’t see it being anything but a failure here as its been in the States. Harvey Norman won’t win selling PS3’s when the hottest console in town is the Wii. We get a Good Guys opening here next week, wonder if they stock Wii games? They’ll certainly be getting my business on a range of other goods 🙂
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Save the Polar Bear
Want to know what’s wrong with the hard left, the environazis and animal rights activitists: they want to kill this polar bear:
More at the SMH + News.com.au. Lets see, Polar Bears are facing extinction (allegedly) and yet the very same people who carry on about this want to kill the bear. Obviously drugs are freely available in Germany beceause it’s the only logical conclusion here. In the spirit of Heroes: Save the Bear, Save the World! 🙂
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Australians working online, let us rejoice, we’re all about to take a paycut
SMH: Aussie dollar hits 10-year high
How do I respond to this without droping the F word over and over and over again. Sure, it might make it cheaper to visit the US, but ALL of my income at the moment is in US Dollars. And lets talk rip offs, I ordered a couple of new boxes yesterday, Paypal converted at 77c and yet I read today the exchange rate is 80c and climbing. For everyone else: sure, imports become cheaper, but exports become less competitive, and did I mention interest rates? The AUD is up because the market is factoring in an interest rate rise in Australia in the very near future, every 0.25 basis points is roughly $45 AUD extra a month on my mortgage, so I lose twice over. GRRRRRR!
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Africans show how to scam Google News
I was interested when I read the headline in my Google News feed: Start Your Blog Now – B?ɬ©africa-Opinions, listed as being Central African Republic. The content extract even sounded more appealing:
“You?Ǭ¥re about to discover the complete How-To guide to set up your very own Video Blog. And we also show you how you can pull huge profits from it?¢‚Ǩ¬¶.”
So lets click on this Google News story:
which takes us to:
Yep, another spam site with a listing on Google News. I’d complain to the Google News team but they either never listen, or just don’t respond to emails, I’ve sent quite a few in the past, maybe someone else can let them know, I can no longer be bothered.
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Operation Floor Lift commences
Nearly 12 months ago we took possession of our new house, and I spent 2 weeks of literally back breaking work laying the floor in the new house, timber laminate was all that we could afford at the time, mind you, it was still $6500 just for the laminate. About 3 months later the floor started to lift, at random places the floor buckled and occasionally broke. We later found out that slabs on a new house (in Australia houses are usually built on a concrete slab) take 12-18 months to “dry out” and that essentially moisture from the slab had caused the problem, and there was not a thing we could do to fix it, bar rip the floor up and start again. Today marks the start of Operation Floor Lift, where I’ve got 1 week to lift 220 sq m of timber laminate and dumb it into a miniskip prior to the new floor being laid next week, and we’ll be out of the house for at least 2 weeks as well after that: the new floor consists of proper timber: local BlackButt (Eucalyptus patens) which is costing an arm and a leg and takes 2 weeks to lay and finish off. I’ll be working from the laptop starting Saturday presuming the floor lifting doesn’t kill me in the mean time, laying at nearly did. Moral of the story: seal your slab prior to laying flooring. Now if only someone had told me that 12 months ago 🙂
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Twitter Badges
I’m not sure whether I should include this in the side bar, but I’ll try it in a post for now.
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Too much noise, step away from the keyboard
Michael Gray doesn’t mince his words, but he is mostly spot on, although I would add that the next Danny Sullivan is probably posting away on some unknown blog as we speak. It’s a catch 22, yes, there’s too much noise, too much junk, but you’ve got to start somewhere as well, and who am I to judge the value of others, after all that’s a function of the market, not the individual, but again, sentiment is definitely in the right direction.
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So long Zefrank, and thanks for all the fish
Zefrank’s last show. Sad. Thank you Ze for entertaining us for a year.