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It sometimes annoys me with the questionable posts that friends share to their wall, as it shows up in my news feed. Today’s one was offering anyone that liked, commented and shared the post on their wall a chance to win 1 of 5 BMWs. This is an obvious scam done just to build likes to a page that c Read More

My first big research article for 2014 and the first one I've done in quite a while it's looking into blog comment spam across LostPr.es and SEOMeetups.com.au. A word of warning it's close to 2,000 words but there is lots of graphs and charts to make it easier to understand and read.  Read More

My post was original published on the now defunct Melbourne IT Blog that was taken down after it was hacked and defaced twice by The Syrian Electronic Army and hasn’t come back….
On the 11th of April 2013 a large scale brute force attack was staged focused on vulnerable WordPress blogs using 90,00 Read More

How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web Read More

A fair while ago I did a test on one of my affiliate Twitter accounts where I made the dumb decision to bulk buy a chunk of followers. The question on is it ethical and if it was the right thing to do is a more complicated question that does not have a perfect answer in a fast moving area such as T Read More

A normal day in our life might look like this: The alarm clock buzzes. We hit snooze twice and steal another 16 minutes. As we get into the office, yesterday’s work crisis weighs heavily on our mind, but instead we log in and check Facebook for a while. After that, we dip in and out of meetings, ch Read More

What do Millennials want? Flexibility and independence top the list, according to a new study, “Millennials and the Future of Work,” from oDesk and Millennial Branding that polled nearly 2,000 people aged 19 to 30. Here’s some of what the study found, and what it means for your business. Read More

Raven Tools recently published a resource that looks at 28 SEO Metrics and how to use them to communicate the success of marketing campaigns – and thus, the value of your work – to clients.

Next, we wanted to get some different views on the topic. We asked 16 marketers from all industries and wa Read More

As the lights went out at last night's Super Bowl, we were all bombarded with viewer reactions on our personal social networks. Whether the cause was Beyonce's fierce performance or something else is unclear, but what was clear is that there are plenty of brands out there that were clever enough to Read More

Last week the web was buzzing with news about “Bob” who was caught outsourcing his job to China and paying someone less than a fifth of his salary to get the job done. The interesting insight is that “Bob” had always received amazing performance reviews for his work over the past several years and Read More