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A reader contacted me yesterday to ask for a Free Report from my Free Info & White Papers section of this web site.

Seems as though the link to the Free Report was broken.  Once I got over the shock of having made a mistake (took me a while) I found the file and sent it through to him, then I fixed up the broken link.

Lessons From 2004 Still Hold True

The Free report this guy asked for is called “10 secrets of successful web sites”.

It’s a report I wrote back in 2004 on what I saw as the keys to a successful site.10-secrets-web-site

Bearing in mind the report is almost 6 years old, everything is still pretty much spot on – which means I’m a prophet, as well as being smart and very, very attractive.  And funny.  Don’t forget funny.

The only real change I’d make is to recommend Google Analytics for your web site statistics program and to say that large file sizes don’t matter so much in this day and age of fast connections.

So if you’re wondering what makes a successful web site, my Free Report (no registration required) could give you a few ideas.

Cheers

Brendon

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I’m loving the tool for Flickr called Slideflickr.

Within seconds you can create a slideshow of your photos.  Easy as pie.

These photos are from our cycle across Australia.

Cheers

Brendon

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A great app I use on my iPhone is called Qik – you simply shoot video and it streams straight to your Qik account.

You jump on and grab the embed code and stick it where you want.  An excellent service.

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One of the frustrating things about writing a web site is that people can easily steal your content.

I’ve found many examples over the years of people ripping off content from this site – they do it for a number of reasons, the most common being simply to have fresh content for their own sites (usually those sites have a ton of ads on them): search engines find the pages, they get more visitors, visitors click on the ads and they make more money.

Here’s a neat tool to check if someone is regurgitating your content – Copyscape.

Simply type in your site’s address and you’ll soon have an idea of whether you’re being stolen from.

Cheers

Brendon

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