Non SEO :-)

Update: Turned out the Social Media Marketing System was all smoke and mirrors. The person running it would get loads of new Facebook contacts, some of which would buy the full version of his products.

I was a member of their forum and there was talk of collaborations together, but reality was nothing came of it and considering my SEO skills you can imagine what I could achieve for/with others. My opinion is it’s setup to take advantage of those without a clue about making money online (take advantage of them).

BTW my Facebook profile was deleted by Facebook, presumably because I was inviting too many people to be my friends. I’ve created a new profile and not gone after any friends, just used it to claim my groups and post on Facebook groups I find interesting.

As most people know it’s illegal to drive a car or other motorized vehicle on a legal highway without valid car insurance. Some very stupid people think it’s fine to drive without car insurance for a variety of reasons, here’s a few very good reasons in the form of car crash videos why car insurance is important.

Car’s Sliding on Black Ice

I have a feeling third part fire and theft car insurance wouldn’t have been much help to the people driving the cars in the above very funny video showing multiple cars sliding on what must have been black ice!

I hope they all had fully comprehensive car insurance :-))

RegisterFly has been re branded as RegFly, from my research it’s the same people that was behind RegisterFly and when you go to registerfly.com your redirected to regfly.com.

Log in to RegFly with the same user name and password you had for RegisterFly and you get to see a list of domains that got transferred to Godaddy and eNom. Until a week ago when I logged in to RegFly I had a $320 balance that I had left over from my RegisterFly account.

So RegFly = RegisterFly, there is no doubt that this is the same company.

With the advent of WordPress 2.3 we now have tags, a bit like WordPress categories tags can be added to any post you create and so from an SEO perspective can be useful in creating new content from old. There’s more to WordPress 2.3 than just tag support, but from a theme perspective it’s the biggest change.

Pretty easy to make a WordPress theme 2.3 compatible, however in the process of doing so you make the theme no longer work with earlier versions of WordPress. Fortunately I’ve created some tag code that solves the problem (the basic tag code breaks earlier versions of WordPress if you don’t use the function exists coding below) and so rather than creating 2 versions of your WordPress themes, you only need to make one :-))

I was looking for ideas for a new number plate for my car, think it’s time for the personal touch and stumbled upon this car number plate image which is quite amusing.

Though I will add you shouldn’t try this while driving a car as it could invalidate your auto insurance. LOL

As you can see the car number plate when reversed would be the ideal gift for the vast majority of men :-)

Women’s Number Plate

I then went looking for more funny car number plate pictures and found a scary one for women.

I just hope any women looking at the above number plate image (which is just for fun) aren’t at the wrong time of the month. Time to change my whois info, just in case :-)

Recently purchased a new dedicated server because the server from Server4you was playing up and their support sucked big time. In the process of transferring over 100 domains from the Server4you server to the new one and this means nameserver changes.

I register domains through Godaddy, Registerfly (though not any more, they have gone down hill recently) and 123-Reg (I register UK domains through these).

So logged into Godaddy and started changing nameservers as the sites are uploaded to the new server. No problems at all, smooth transition.

Then logged into Registerfly and to cut a long story short discovered my domains with them had been transferred to Godaddy and eNom! Started digging through my SPAM box for missed emails about this and found two, one about domains transferred to Godaddy and one about transfers to eNom.

Some information about our problems with Hivelocity dedicated server and Reg-123 semi managed dedicated server hosting at the bottom as well.

We’ve been using Server4you (dedicated server company) for our web sites hosting needs for a few years now and at first it worked fine, but as traffic and the number of sites hosted on the unmanaged Server4you server has grown (~150 sites including sub-domains) server hosting problems have become a daily event: there was 25 support tickets within the Server4you control panel and many have been on going for months (not sure how I managed to keep going with this server company so long!).

Update The Wrath of the Lich King is out and for the Horde Joana has released the first Wrath of the Lich King 1-80 Horde Leveling Guide BEFORE the official release of the Wrath of the Lich King addon to World of Warcraft (I’m very impressed).

Now including an ingame map mod like the innovative Team iDemise mod, now there is little between the two World of Warcraft Horde leveling guides other than speed of updates and in this area Joana has come first and so is recommended as the WOTLK 1-80 Leveling Guide to buy for the Horde.

Time to level to 80 and kick some Alliance ass, FOR THE HORDE!!! :)

Tags: World of Warcraft

I’m not a big fan of football in general (don’t support a team for example), but when the World Cup comes around I try to watch every match I can (never miss an England match)..

Going to BOLD the ones I manage to watch this year from the list (which I got from http://www.worldcupkickoff.com/)below-

Fri 09/06/06 5:00PM Germany v Costa Rica Munich Group A Match

No big surprise with that result.

Fri 09/06/06 8:00PM Poland v Ecuador Gelsenkirchen Group A Match

Already forgot that match (doh!).

Sat 10/06/06 2:00PM England v Paraguay Frankfurt Group B Match

I’m an SEO consultant (some call me SEO Dave) with SEO Gold so spend most of my time optimising my own sites, clients sites and researching SEO techniques.

I got into search engine optimization through my first business website, it was an ecommerce Lingerie site (yes I sold sexy Lingerie). In the first year of learning SEO my first site was receiving on average 5,000 visitors per day and peaked at 8,000 visitors per day (was in the top 10 for the Lingerie SERP on all major search engines for example). Unfortunately I used a blackhat SEO technique called link spamming/blog comment spamming that resulted in Google completely banning the site Nov 2003. The sites traffic quickly dropped to around 1,000 visitors per day (most from Yahoo) where it remains to this day.