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Fail – Degrees Of Separation – Negatives And Pluses ISV Style

Negatives happen, fails occur. They are not signals to quit in all instances, or even most. They are grist for our respective mills. You might have three months or thirty years experience in an industry but you’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to have failures. It is not the end of the world.

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VPS Update – Need For Speed

Now that Google has admitted site speed is a part of their ranking factor for websites – read Matt Cutts article, he suggests this is not a panic issue – and given I saw results for myself in the additional speed verses rank I figured it would hurt to play with what was reportedly a quicker service recently – Linode…

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2009 Epic Fail. Glad Its Over. Towards 2010

If 2008 was a good year, and in many ways it was for me, 2009 was an Epic Fail.  I mean EPIC. It began with good intentions.  An application to finish that was six months overdue and the core of my start-up.  By years end I’d made less progress than in the last six months [...]

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Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

magine my delight today when I see the search term from Yahoo for “free live sound mixing software” and got the following result, page after page, for the download sites:

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Google, DNS Geo-Location, Delisting, Moving Servers, SERP, Blind Mice And I've Run Out Of Patience

Google, DNS Geo-Location, Delisting, Moving Servers, SERP, Blind Mice And I've Run Out Of Patience

I’ve been happy enough to talk on this blog, in a number of articles, about how writing content for my own websites propels them rather nicely into at least page one, if not in the first few results of page one, on Google painlessly and consistently. So it’s only fair that I also talk about the converse – the opposite – when it happens. I’m referring to the sickening lurch that’s began just over a few months ago on Google. Hard to spot because at first it’s not across the board. Nope, it’s been slow, gathering momentum since April, into May and then the BOOM! in June. What am I waffling on about?

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