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What are others saying about you on the net? Google Alerts can help you monitor.

How do you keep track about what others are saying about you? Do you visit one of the major search engines and search regularly for your own name or business name? It could be a good idea to monitor this, so if someone blogs or  adds a link to you, you know about it. You [...]

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa stars in Sealord Opera in the Park – Nelson

What a privilege it was on Saturday night to attend Sealords Opera in the Park. I must admit that it was the first of this yearly event that I have personally attended, but for me this fantastic event made up for all the past 9 that I had not gone to. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa [...]

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Evil all over the web

Google is saying that 1 in 1,000 web pages is infected by malicious software. Over the last year Google has been suing its crawling software to search for malicious pages that try to attack their visitors. They found over 3 million of them. Called "drive-by downloads" by security experts, they have infected the websites of [...]

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The search pages from New Zealand only on google.co.nz debate

Back in late October, we were told unequivocally that New Zealand websites with a .com domain name should be hosted in New Zealand space rather than the US or elsewhere or they would not be found in www.google.co.nz when ticking "pages from New Zealand"

Real Estate agent filing defamation claim against Google

This is sort of funny, but probably not for the person concerned, one Mark Forytarz of Melbourne. If you do a search on Google for Mark the result page shows him as not being a very nice person in his real estate profession. The top 2 results are directed related to the story and it [...]

New websites and the horror Search Story

One of the regular search marketing resources we follow is from Web Marketing Today. Peter has been receiving regular tips, news and ideas from them since their inception in around 1996. In the main they offer good easy to understand stories about search engine marketing, that he has found quite useful over the years.