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Small Business Workshop – Tuesday 6th December in Perth

By Brendan On November 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Misc

We’re back in Perth next week and in conjunction with Lisa from Business Balance and as part of her 100% Performance Small Business Program, we’re hosting a full day small business workshop. The focus will be Tools, Technology & a Sustainable Online Marketing Strategy.

The key topics the workshop will cover are:

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Our Standard WordPress Plugins…

By Brendan On September 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Knowledgebase

I get asked this question all the time – which WordPress plugins do you use?

Here’s our bog standard list:

My Ftp – for easy file editing and uploads from the web console W3 Total Cache to improve the performance of the site Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast – to integrate Google Analytics SEO [...]
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CNEs – a really under-leveraged tool to make you more money

By Brendan On September 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Conversion

Here’s a concept I was introduced a couple of years ago – critical non essentials, the little things in business that help you dominate and crush your competition and create raving fans instead of customers.

CNEs are a really simple concept but like most business fundamentals, I personally struggle to leverage a strategy or tactic [...]

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Quick RSS/Feedburner tip to increase your subscriber counts…

By Brendan On September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In SEO

Here’s a quick tip if you run a WordPress blog or are a blogger – you probably knows what Feedburner is….if you don’t and you’re blogging in any serious way then you should so go and Google “feedburner” right now and learn about it!

One thing that really gets me is when bloggers don’t [...]

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New site launch!

By Brendan On September 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Misc

If you’ve been to the site before you’ll have noticed we’ve just launched a new design this week. I haven’t been happy with the old design for a long long time but with our Achieve More Online workshops and client load we just haven’t had a chance to work on our own site.

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How to add META Description on Catalog Pages in Business Catalyst WITHOUT duplicates

By Brendan On August 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Knowledgebase, Misc, Technical

UPDATE: It appears as though this method can still result in duplicate meta descriptions on product tags. The solution only works for category pages with another category page as a child page.

Just spent the last hour trawling through the Business Catalyst forums & WIKI trying to work out how to get meta descriptions into [...]

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301 redirects in .htaccess on Frontpage site

By Brendan On April 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Technical

Here’s a quick fix if you’re trying to get .htaccess 301 redirects working on a site that was built using Frontpage (ugh)

Ordinarily I just cut and paste some code from our internal doco to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com in .htaccess files and all is sweet but unusually I was getting a 403 error with [...]

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WordPress redirecting to /wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/_index.html.gzip

By Brendan On April 13, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Misc, Technical

A couple of days ago I added some additional domain names to a client WordPress site that we 301 redirected back to the primary domain name. The redirect worked OK but the site was redirecting these users to www.domain.com/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/_index.html.gzip instead of www.domain.com for some reason.

Clearly a problem with W3 Super Cache plugin conflicting [...]

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How insecure are you really? 3 ways to dramatically increase the security of your online presence

By Brendan On March 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Misc, Technical

How secure are your Facebook, Twitter & Gmail logons? Probably not as secure as you think. If you’re using any of these services over a public network, chances are your logon details are not encrypted.

This means if you’re using a shared, public or unencrypted wireless connection, anyone with a free Firefox plugin (Firesheep) can [...]

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Contact Form 7 Thank you Page Redirect

By Brendan On March 18, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Misc, Technical

If you’re using Contact Form 7 and have upgraded to WordPress 3.x the redirect code in the additional settings box seems to have changed.

After upgrading the plugin to the latest version, I’m using the code below which is now working fine (guessing it doesn’t work versions older than WP 3.0)

Here’s the code – [...]

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  • Brendan Tully SEOHey I'm Brendan, Principal Consultant here at The Search Engine Shop.

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