tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70784834121843524682012-05-24T01:52:15.544-07:00My blog posts bring all the bots’ to my site and they’re like “It’s better than yours”Carl Bartletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18308219560735481753noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125CarlBartlettBloghttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078483412184352468.post-4451351780334638272012-05-13T09:14:00.000-07:002012-05-13T10:40:22.913-07:00

Hi guys, I just witnessed a massive marketing failure this last week on facebook (ok… I kinda, sorta, accidentally was the straw that broke the camel’s back), and I’m going to tell you how it went down. So my favourite local meat deli decided that they needed to do some facebook marketing, and set up a group on facebook, and they even managed to get 680 members in the group. That’s pretty

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Have you seen those websites with the cool slideshow that have items on each slide that link to other pages? Well, one of my customers had seen this, and that’s what they wanted, only they wanted to have 3 different links on each slide. There are a lot of WordPress plugins that provide this sort of feature, but not with the degree of control that I wanted. The solution that I found was to

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If your jQuery cycle is not crossfading and you are using it in WordPress or the content section of your CMS The Problem If you put your slideshow in the content of a page, you need to be aware that the standard WYSIWYG editor places tags in the code when presenting the page, but then hides then when you use the HTML view.  As a result, what looks like this in the editor; Is actually

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How to create a .sln file for an existing ASP.NET application From the Visual Studio menu choose "File | New | Project..." From the resulting dialog, under "Other Project Types" choose "Visual Studio Solutions" and create a blank solution. Then from the Visual Studio menu choose "File | Add | Existing Web Site" and point it to your web site to add it to your new solution. It’s that

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PLEASE NOTE:  If you are looking for information on how to Disable Facebook Chat saving directly in your messages inbox, Click Here. This post is simply about how to stop people from messaging you in Facebook chat. The New Chat Sidebar First of all, lets deal with that pesky new Sidebar If you haven’t yet done so, click the “try now” Button. Don’t worry, It won’t do anything bad to your

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This is just a quick post in case any of my more technical readers ever need this solution. An online friend of mine recently wrote a useful blog post on how to select rows between specific times but relative dates in SQL. He uses MySQL, so if you are using SQL server, you may need to tweak the solution.

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If you are trying to generate traffic using twitter, then you want to get retreated for 3 reasons; 1. Links that are re-tweeted more than twice car considered to valuable by search engines. 2. If someone with a lot of followers re-tweets your link you can get a lot of visitors from their followers. 3. Some people pipe their twitter feeds into other social networks or their blogs as feeds, this

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Facebook have managed to upset users with their latest upgrade to the chat feature. PLEASE NOTE:  If you are looking for information on how to Disable Facebook Chat so that your pesky friends don’t bug you when you are on facebook, Click here. A lot of people are trying to find out how to disable the new Facebook “feature” that saves your full chat directly into the messages inbox as a

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Continuing on my Using twitter for SEO series,  in this post I will give you a few tips and techniques to improve your chances of getting retweeted. Time of the day: Peak tweet hours - business hours. Peak retweet hours - 3pm to midnight. If you want your tweets read, tweet in the morning; if you want to be retweeted, tweet at night. Pro Tip: Keep in mind the time zone of your target audience

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Over my next few posts, I will be writing about how you can use twitter for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and to drive traffic to your website. In this post we will look at Hashtags. I will explain what they are and how they can both help and hurt your efforts to get more website traffic. What are Hashtags? By placing a the # symbol in front of a word in your tweet, you are telling twitter

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Has this ever happened to you? You’re working on a project, and suddenly get inspiration for another project or task, perhaps you remember some other small job that needs to be done, or maybe you receive an email asking you to do something quickly for somebody else. It’s tempting to stop what you are doing and work on this other task, after all it’s just a small little thing and won’t take much

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As the senior software developer in a development team I have a thousand and one different things that need to be done an any given time. We have all sorts of systems in place to ensure that I do all that needs to be done; job cards, MS Outlook calendar, project documents, etcetera. Surprisingly, the most effective is still the good old fashioned “To Do” list (or 2do list as I call it). The 2do

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I have recently been through the ordeal of cleaning out my cupboards at home.  I discovered all sorts of clutter that has no real value and is really just taking up space and gathering dust.  I realised this probably happens with a lot of blogs too. So I decided to “Spring clean” my blog! Remove the clutter First I took a look at my keyword tags, and removed tags that had nothing to do with

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I am writing a Webmaster SEO Training manual for our clients, the following is an extract from the Introduction to SEO Chapter, any thoughts? SEO Juice Search engines provide search results based on how pages perform in a series of algorithms to determine the relative value of a result based on a search query. Basically, the search engine is trying to mathematically deduce who is the recognised

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Just a quick post to say check out the new Pietermaritzburg Events website. Its a free online event calendar for the greater Pietermaritzburg area that lets you create or view up coming events. The I built the calendar and site menu on jQuery JavaScript Library The website was commissioned by the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Business with the aim of providing a tool for city residents to view

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For a long time I’ve been punting the benefits of long tail SEO to my customers, but most just ignore it. Ian Lurie from Conversation Marketing has just put together a brilliant explanation  of the true hidden power of Log Tail SEO.  So now I finally have a way to explain (with pictures) why this is so important. Thanks Ian Yes, I probably should have done this myself long ago, but just never

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Your blog may be providing some great content, but you feel like you are getting stuck in a rut and not making progress. You might want to consider diversifying a bit with guest writers (always let them link to their own blog/website in exchange for the write-up) or by using some of the following ideas; Lists: for example “5 brilliant Business Resources” or “10 Tips for Managers” or “10 New

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Never again will I let a developer under me use a framework that I have not tested and approved myself. I have just had to take over a project because a junior developer left our company. Learn from my suffering!

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I’ve started a Photo Blog over at tumblr. Now I have blog’s on Blogger, Wordpress, and tumblr. My impressions of these 3 free blogging sites so far are; Wordpress This seems to is the most flexible of the lot, but the popups on images are very annoying. tumblr. Incredibly easy to setup an use, I would happily recommend this to a first time blogger. Although the setup wizard tries to push you

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I’ve been getting a lot of hack attempts on my CMS lately, mostly in the form of attempted SQL injection. Most of the IP addresses track back to the Middle East, China, and former USSR states. I don’t know what it is about these places, but it’s almost always them. The scary thing is seeing how hack attempts are contently developing and adapting. They uses to be simple like ;or 1=1 Now we get

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I just got an advertorial done for this blog over at the Free Linked Advertorial Service It’s a new service to help with Link Building. http://freelinkadvertorial.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/the-carl-bartlett-blog/

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I have just noticed that the websites links in LinkedIn are no longer direct, but rather redirected thought an internal redirect page, thus killing the “link love” that we may have been getting from LinkedIn. I checked on Google Webmaster Tools and the incoming link from LinkedIn is no longer there. I have written a polite message to LinkedIn stating that I think this is a bad idea considering

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Over the next few weeks and months I will be writing a series of advice articles for people needing web services. I’m doing this to generate content that will help boost the SEO of our website. Here is an excerpt from my first article; What you should know about choosing a web site design company to ensure that your website will be as good as it can be. Look at Previous Designs Most web

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I wrote this as an email to a link spammer, but I figure I may as well share it here: I could tell that your comment was just blatantly trying to use my blog for more incoming links, and to be honest I was kind of flattered, I was even going to leave it there... but then I clicked on your profile link, and found that you have no blog, so I cannot paste a link to my website in your blog. How is

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When I was on holiday in Perth, Australia, I noticed that none of the shops had Digital Price Tags, or wireless LCD advertising screens. This has become quite popular in South Africa, even in my sleepy hollow of a town Pietermaritzburg. When I asked my friends in Australia about it, they had never even heard this technology. So here for my mates "Down Under", especially Ray, are some photos that

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