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Re: Functions Galore

Mike Haydon — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:55:41 -0000

Gah! So exciting! Loving functions. Until now I've been doing all my animation with keyframes etc in css3 like I did with http://www.thereisnoseo.com , but this javascript adds a whole new dimension. You're a great teacher Ben. Thanks!

Re: 65 Lessons From 14 Years In Online Business and Professional Blogging

Mike Haydon — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:58:39 -0000

Is the choice of 65 because you're so old in internet years that you're ready to retire? Just kidding. Great list and something that bears further study. Thanks.

Re: 6 Ways to Grow YouTube Subscribers and Your Exposure

Mike Haydon — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:36:43 -0000

Oh that's brilliant! Thanks James!

Re: In Wake Of Penguin, Could You Be Sued For Linking To Others?

Mike Haydon — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:59:19 -0000

Surely one could not sue the other company without joining Google as a party. In fact, the suit may have to be against Google as the primary. The loss would be caused by a change in Google's algorithm, not the actions of the other party. And we all know how quickly that suit would be thrown out.

Re: Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results

Mike Haydon — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:26:06 -0000

wow. It even shows up #1 in a search from Australia

Re: Google Launches “Penguin Update” Targeting Webspam In Search Results

Mike Haydon — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:02:09 -0000

Just been analysing mine and my clients sites. Preliminary results seem to point to only an onpage spam update. Linkbuilding was the same across a bunch of sites. Only one site was hit with penalties, the others increased in rankings.

The site that was hit was overly aggressive with tags (built on wordpress), dates and other archives which were all indexable, resulting in a lot of tag pages with only one post. Overall effect was keyword stuffing (in displaying the tags for the post) and duplicate content. When I say aggressive, I'm talking some pages had 50+ tags.

Have corrected the issues & it'll be interesting to see if previous rankings come back.

Re: Your Site is the Mousetrap, Your Content is the Cheese

Mike Haydon — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:06:16 -0000

A fitting analogy, Barry. Though we'd have to do without the "killing" or there would be no repeat customers :)

Re: Everything You Need To Know About Facebook’s Epic Upgrade To Pages

Mike Haydon — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:49:37 -0000

Hey cuz. You da man! This has been very helpful for me. Cheers.

Re: The most important thing to think about before doing something important or nerve-wrecking

Mike Haydon — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:59:37 -0000

That's brilliant Benny. Thanks for the kick up the rear. It's just what I needed to hear right now.

Re: 5 Secrets of Highly Effective Twitter Users

Mike Haydon — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:57:10 -0000

Nothing particularly earth shattering here. I disagree with point 1: you say only follow selectively, but to follow those with a lot of followers & influence. If the top twitter users followed your advice, your system would break down

Re: 32 Ways to Refocus on Your Priorities

Mike Haydon — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:50:47 -0000

Brilliant post Everett! It's going into my extremely selective "Personal Development" bookmark folder as I anticipate referring back to this many times. Your suggestions are so simple, yet so powerful. Thanks mate.

Re: Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets

Mike Haydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:29:40 -0000

Solution - Twitter should focus more on targeting the problem (spam) rather than an outlet for the problem (RTs). Spammers will always find a way to spam. Making a concerted effort to combat spam is one of the main reasons Facebook has Myspace in a stranglehold, particularly among the non-teen demographic.

Re: Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets

Mike Haydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:25:38 -0000

What are you saying? You DON'T like the fail whale? lol

Re: Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets

Mike Haydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:24:53 -0000

Good analogy! If only more companies followed the Japanese car company model

Re: Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets

Mike Haydon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:23:28 -0000

Twitter should be spending its time on fixing things that are broken, like the amount of spam they spend their resources responding to rather than being proactive. It's a simple code fix to allow "one click" RTs in the form we know, use and love (I often comment on when I RT), as opposed to the more difficult task of changing the fabric of the site to do RTs the way they are proposing.

I'm not going to stop RTing the way I currently do. I hardly ever use the site anyway, Tweetdeck is much more efficient for me. With 22k followers, there's no way I can see even a fraction of my followers' tweets. I have a group of around 150 people I've built up a trust for and I listen to them. They often RT things that twitterers I don't know have said, which I won't see under the proposed system.

Twitter - keep the format the same. It works a lot better than what you propose will. Add a button to improve user experience, but don't mangle something that makes your site unique.

Re: Tony Robbins, John Reese, Frank Kern On The Power of You [Video]

Mike Haydon — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:42:49 -0000

I think something just clicked for me.

Re: Damn It TWITTER!!!! This Follow Thing Has Gone TOO Far!!!

Mike Haydon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:36:55 -0000

Well that sure gave me a lot to think about. I'm not going to be as radical as you, but I have turned off auto-follow and I'm unfollowing people I wouldn't have followed in the first place. We'll see where that leads. Thanks Ed.

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Mike Haydon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:55:18 -0000

What an awesome post! My dad's a school teacher and he's often said how he has to act like a parent for some of the kids because they just don't get it anywhere else. I think your ideas on connection are spot on, but it will be a loooong time before they are realized.

Re: Twitter Finally Monetizes

Mike Haydon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:01:14 -0000

I wonder whether, if twitter starts to include sponsored tweets, another similar service, but better planned will take its place. No matter how big the gorilla is, if it steps in quicksand a mouse can run over it :)

Re: Weight Gain Tips You Should Never Follow

Mike Haydon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:29:48 -0000

You're absolutely right. I was primarily mistake #9. Left highschool at 145 lbs at 6ft 5. Now that I got my nutrition right I'm just over 210 lb (15% body fat) and still have muscle to go - still on the skinny side. Though I'm always amused how people think that you can put garbage in and get something other than garbage out. Good article.