Alastair commented on the following stories on BizSugar
Stop Stealing My Content!
"Nice post and this really is a problem that's worth thinking about. Unfortunately the two solutions mentioned are unlikely to help. Those scraping your content are unlikely to take your meta tags. Even if they were stupid enough to, they have no reason to want them so it's unlikely. Your main defence will be the strength of your domain and being found first. The strongest signal Google can have of the original source is where it appeared first. On the plus side, there will be many spam blogs that will intro your post and then link to it and others that will scrape the post but link to it. These also re-inforce your version as the main source and even provide some low grade link help for your search positions."Subscribe
Flash Websites – Give Your SEO a Break
"Hi Yoni Yeah. There is always a balance to be struck between adding richness of experience and the speed of the page. Pictures, videos, animations. They are all a bit of a balancing act. In some ways it is good that the load time forces us to consider "How much value does this thing I put in actually add?"."