filed in Social Networking on Jul.29, 2009
There are a huge stack of tools out there to help you make the most of Twitter. Â There are varying levels of quality but one of the tools that I’ve been playing with today is Tweepi and it’s impressed me hugely. Geeky Follow One of the problems that people have with Twitter is finding people [...]
filed in Social Networking on Jul.28, 2009
If you’ve ever had one of your blog posts re-tweeted by a big hitter on Twitter then you’ll know the massive amount of traffic that they can generate. That big wave of traffic can generate additional RSS subscribers and newsletter subscribers as well so it’s not just a one-off benefit. On a smaller scale I [...]
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filed in Social Networking on Jul.17, 2009
Google has just published a list of all of their accounts on Twitter. There are quite a few as you can see but even for a small business, it may be worth considering having a couple of Twitter accounts. For example, if you ran a digital media company and your company produced websites, graphics, videos [...]
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filed in Misc, Social Networking on Jul.13, 2009
The Queen (well, the British Monarchy) have started using Twitter. http://twitter.com/BritishMonarchy They’re doing very well and have managed to attract over 9000 followers in a very short space of time. Â However, I wonder if they’re actually managing to get the most out of Twitter. Â For a start, very few of their tweets are under the [...]
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filed in Google, SEO on Jul.09, 2009
Over the past 3 or 4 months we’ve seen Google update its Toolbar PageRank at least 3 times. Â That’s quite unusual because in the past it’s only been once or twice a year that we’ve seen an update. I’ve been fairly scathing of toolbar PR in the past, suggesting that it’s fairly irrelevant when looking [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Jul.08, 2009
Common sense would suggest that having two search results in positions 1 and 2 would be more beneficial than just having one result in the first position. Â Google does this if you have two pages that are strong enough to rank for the same keyword, even if the other page is only good enough to [...]
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filed in Website Design on Jul.06, 2009
This is part of an occasional series looking at some of the poorer websites found on the web today. For the first post, click here. Today, we’re going to look at the navigational nightmare that is http://www.1001pens.com/ OK, it’s not as offensively bright as the last site we looked at but it’s still so bad [...]
filed in Blogging, SEO on Jul.01, 2009
Thanks to the Hobo Custom Link Love WordPress plug-in that I blogged about yesterday, we are now offering dofollow links from the comments field of this blog. Spammers beware though, because I’ll be deleting any comments stashed full with links, with spammy names or anything that just doesn’t quite smell right! Â So if you want [...]