filed in Google, Marketing, Misc, SEO on Aug.12, 2010
Back in April, Google announced that the speed of your website is a factor in how they rank your site. That’s not ground-breaking. Â If a site is dead slow then it makes sense that people will be less impressed by it and less likely to use it. Â If they don’t use it then it’s no [...]
filed in Misc on Aug.12, 2009
Campaign Monitor is an excellent site for sending out newsletters. Â We use it for our MMD newsletter and it works really well – lots of functions and behind the scenes works well as well. Â Email servers are very jumpy about spam and newsletters can often be marked as spam, but if they come from Campaign [...]
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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 Misc, Website Design on Jun.24, 2009
I was speaking with my good friend yesterday, the marketing guru Jim Connolly and we got onto the topic of affiliate programmes. Â Jim was telling me that while affiliate programmes are very common online, they also work just as well offline. Â In fact, they can be even more powerful offline simply because personal recommendations between [...]
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filed in Misc, Website Design on Jun.23, 2009
I’ve been on the web since 1995 and have seen websites evolve from when the default background colour was grey through to today where anything goes. Â My very first website had a highly classy ‘repeating cloud’ background which I thought was fantastic at the time. Â However, looking back, this may not have been the case! [...]
filed in Misc on Jun.02, 2009
According to Mashable and various other reports throughout the internet, China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, Hotmail, YouTube, Blogger and a host of other websites. Apparently this is down to the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananment Square Massacre in 1989. The Chinese authorities obviously don’t want their people to be exposed to alternative versions [...]
filed in Misc, Social Networking on May.11, 2009
CNET reports about two major upcoming changes to Twitter search. Twitter search has a massive amount of potential but has been seriously overlooked so far. That’s about to change. Firstly Twitter is about to start crawling and indexing the links that are tweeted to provide a far broader view of what’s popular at the moment. [...]
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filed in Misc on Apr.09, 2009
Recently I’ve needed to find a new tenant for my flat which I rent out, so I went to the usual estate agents that I use. They wanted £750 to find someone, which I thought a bit steep but which seemed to be the going rate so I told them to proceed. 3 weeks late, [...]
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filed in Misc, SEO on Mar.13, 2009
Today is Comic Relief day in the UK.  It’s a huge event and has people and down the country doing the craziest things all in the name of charity.  It’s a very worthy cause and has raised over £600 million UK Pounds for good causes all around the world. You can do a tiny bit [...]
filed in Misc on Mar.11, 2009
SEO guru Liam Delahunty from the Online Sales blog very kindly invited me to participate in this meme. Seven things about me 1. I’m the Chairman and Trumpet player in the local wind band: Woodley Concert Band. 2. I took 6 months off work to go travelling in China and ended up visiting North Korea, the [...]
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