MyAnswers: How to look up the business details of who owns a .com.au domain.

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How to look up who the business is that owns a .com.au domain.

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MyAnswers: How using a photo of a property may reveal your location.

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Be careful of the photos you paste on the internet as they may provide more information than you expect. One person who works from home but doesn't publish their address online using a PO Box instead, published a picture of their front yard thus enabling people to easily confirm that location of their property.

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MyAnswers: Huge number of files under the c:\Windows\System32\Config\systemprofile causing computer to perform poorly. Here's how to remove.

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Found a huge number of files in c:\Windows\System32\Config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 and the files were affecting the performance of the computer. Easy I thought. I'll simply delete them. Not so easy since just trying to view the files caused the computer to grind to a halt. Here's how I worked around the issue.

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MyAnswers: Tested replacing a Google ad on my site with an affiliate ad.

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I decided to perform a test to consider replacing Google ads on one of my sites with affiliate advertising. I picked an ad I considered to be close to the market. I did however replace the ad in the middle of the page and not the top ad. I did this just in case the change may damage my excellent traffic in Google. Here is what I found.

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Acer Australia's Paul Brighton using blog spamming to promote Acer.

I find this close to impossible to believe.  A company like Acer Australia has an employee (Paul Brighton) blog spamming to promote Acer Australia. Blog spamming for those who don't know, is when you go to another person's or business's blog with the intent of self promotion.

In this case, today I received a comment on my blog post about the Acer 8" Windows tablet. Personally at 32GB of memory I think this device doesn't have what I'd like in terms of memory, but that's beside the point. The blog post from Paul Brighton stated the following.

Thank you for this post, Acer Iconia W3 8 is an amazing tablet. Buyer must one time look this tab. I am sure that your choice is this tab because of their features.
Chromebook

The last line was a link which contained the following: <a href="http://www.acerstore.com.au/acer/store/index.php/notebook/chromebook.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">

As you can see the link has nothing to do with the post and is only there to promote the Chromebook.

How a company such as Acer Australia thinks it is OK to have an employee do this I don't know. It isn't the type of advertising strategy I'd expect from such a company and will certainly make me think twice about using or recommending their products. There are better ways to promote products rather than piggy back on the efforts of the small guy and use their resources. Not good enough Acer.

I did make an attempt to talk the the marketing manager and a number of managers above. Unfortunately no one was answering their telephones.

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MyAnswers: How does changing the order of words effect the results in terms of SEO.

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Tested changing the wording on my dictionary site from Australian Dictionary to Dictionary Australia from an SEO perspective to see the change in Google positioning. Here is the result.

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MyAnswers: How to remove the default holidays from your iPhone calendar.

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How do I remove default holidays from my calendar on the iPhone. These holidays just started appearing and it makes it harder to determine if I have appointments on a day or not.

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Hepburn Springs Accommodation search engine optimisation

If you perform a search for Hepburn Springs Accommodation you'll notice something very interesting, or at least I thought it was interesting. Then if you add this observation to the comments made by an ex team member of the search engine optimisation team you start to perhaps notice things you may not have been aware of.

If you perform the search notice the third ad which appears in the search results. They're not in the usual form.

If you click on this ad you'll be shown a calendar. WOW. That's unexpected. It appears that Google then provides a list of properties you can book and the sites you can book and the links are for ads. This potentially increases Google's income from ad clicks.

The article I mentioned talks about commercial and non-commercial words. From this we get a feeling that accommodation is a commerical word for Google so you should be careful of overusing this word when performing SEO.

I'd not thought about the use of commercial versus non-commercial words before and thought this may be of interest to others.

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