Sorry I couldn’t resist. Lesson 1, if you use DKI, make sure you do it right, particularly if you are a creative digital agency with clients like Citi, Nestle and Blueinc!! LOL…

Also, while I think of it is that clients like or do they actually have those clients? Really bad advert that.

Another spot courtesy of Eloi below. Barclays Bank (of all people) making some bad mistakes with DKI!

SEO professionals need tools right?! In our humble opinion the popular Firefox Browser is becoming the new best place to make use of and access most of your SEO tools. There are so many SEO tools out there! Some of them are web based, but lots of developers are now coding up their tools to include a web service aspect linking direct from Firefox. Please be aware, the plugins that I have installed are by NO MEANS exhaustive. None the less I thought some of your might find it interesting to see what tools I use in my browser on a daily basis.

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Hey y-all,

Last night I was on Twitter and read a comment from the dudes over at WebmasterRadio.FM informing me that their show was streaming live in audio / visual over at Ustream.TV. I think they have actually been doing this for a little while now. Anyhow, I thought it was pretty cool, so I stayed a little while, had a chat and thought I would write this post. Here is the link too the WebmasterRadio Channel on Ustream. Go check them out.

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Looks good. Just testing QuickPress. I really must setup Subversion.

Update, 03 April 2008

To any remaining followers, thank you very much for sticking with us and our apologies that FireflySEO blog has been so quiet recently. Both David and I have been very / ridiculously busy. To give those of you who might be interested a quick update.

Allan Stewart is currently working in the recruitment industry over at PULSE Jobs helping them out with their Recruitment SEO and David Fairhurst is currently working full time over at Intelligent Retail who supply industry leading EPoS Software integrated with Ebay, heading up their SEO department where they sell in to their existing client base. David continues to work with the FireflySEO client base. Allan travel’s quite a lot to conferences such as Ad:Tech, SMX, SES, writes magazine articles for CAP and manages a number of affiliate websites.

Goals for the future…

Allan Stewart

• Speaking at Conferences: To take on some speaking engagements
• PULSE: To make PULSE Jobs the best darn website in the recruitment industry
• Affiliate: Well I gotta make some money right!

David Fairhurst

• Knowledge: To increase knowledge of the industry and use his skills to promote both the businesses he works for and those of his employer
• To be the best damn SEO he can be

Think that is about it, for now anyway.

Once again, genuinely thank you to those remaining followers and we promise to post some interesting articles and make some positive changes to the website very soon.

Allan Stewart and David Fairhurst

I know this is a bit controversial but for those of you who want a bit more info on exactly what was said I thought I would drop a copy of my notes from Guy Kawasaki’s key note at SES New York last week so that you can decide for your selves. This way you can see what I wrote first hand as he was speaking. What do you think? Is what Guy’s been doing good practice or spam liable to end in disaster?
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Okay, so here is a question that I asked Mr Cutts over on his blog. He is quite a busy guy so I doubt will respond but if he does I will post it here.

Hi Mr Cutts,

Your example is a good one, however, how can you with anything above 70% of accuracy decide what blogs are writing paid for reviews and what blogs are genuinely writing an article about something which the author finds interesting? More…

FireflySEO’s David Fairhurst is now working with EPOS Software giants Intelligent Retail, promoting not only their own corporate website but also the SEO for their wide range of retail clients.

Intelligent Retail have been producing top quality EPOS software for years now, rivalling the likes of Actinic and JSA’s own offerings. Some of you with (very!) long memories might remember that many years ago Firefly (then Firefly I.T.) tied together an Actinic website and a JSA EPOS system to produce a totally integrated selling solution - the system Intelligent Retail have created is far more sophisticated than this though, as it has the addition of true multi-channel selling via Ebay! More…

With the recent announcement from Google of the imminent release of SearchWiki, which allows user customisation of Google search results, we’ve heard a lot of flap about the possible demise of the web marketing Industry… after all, if Joe Public can choose what he sees in his search results, then surely all our hard won placements are ‘up the spout?’ More…