Posts from ‘December, 2008’

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So, in little over a week, most of the Christian world (and hangers on) will be celebrating Christmas 2008. Also, because of it’s the credit crunch, businesses are counting on the strong sales of Christmas to tide them through.
As an SEO’er, have you approached your client about SEO’ing for Christmas 2008?
If you [...]

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Ah yes, there are two things to do when it comes to SEO - optimising pages & link building. Realistically, you should spend about 40% of your time on optimising pages, and 40% of your time on link building. The other 20% should be split with sorting out relevant areas such as [...]

Being busy, I haven’t really got anything thought provoking or intelligent to say today (sorry!) but I will talk about a little widget I’ve stuck on this blog.
Widgets are like Garden Gnomes. One or two on a blog looks okay, but any more than that and it looks a bit tacky. Also, with widgets, they [...]

Social Media is notorious for bringing in huge numbers of traffic to a website, but very few of them actually stay on the site. Certain social media advocates (particularly Digg users), have become great in spotting out Internet Marketers for pushing their own stuff, and destroying a marketer’s credibility.
One such marketer to lose his credibility [...]

A new TLD launches today. .tel has been released to Trademark Holders of National Effect to register, before the launch to everybody on February 3rd 2009.
Domain goldrushes are fascinating occasions on the internet. Domain launches usually have a ’sunrise’ period before launch, were people can lay a claim on any domain name they want. .asia [...]

So yesterday it was announced that one of the most touted (or should that be “Towted”?) to be successful Web 2.0 platforms - Pownce - is shutting it’s doors from December 15th 2008. The reason? Because Six Apart (the company that bought Pownce) want to integrate it with their own blogging platform, Vox, as mentioned [...]