Why is it that people send spam still?
When the internet was essentially young and people were excited about receiving these new electronic mail messages someone out there recognized a brand new arena to spread the word about their product or service. You could reach a thousand people in a couple of seconds for next to nothing in cost. This was going to […]
Google webmaster console, is it good?
Finally, after a long wait, Google has announced the release of a tool that we bloggers always needed – a tool that shows us our links for our sites. Now with Google webmaster console one can see the links of our sites – not only from blogs like technorati, but forums, websites and directories. To […]
Boags World
It is hard to talk about blogs in terms of something I can’t live without, but certainly, Boags World makes life as a blogger and webmaster a lot more bearable. Many moons ago, Paul Boag started a web design company called Headscape. It seems to have done rather well out of universities and public bodies. […]
robots.txt and all that
Google indexes all sites using robots, and these critters’ first port of call is the robots.txt file. Have you got any idea what your blog’s robots.txt file has got written in it? If you don’t have your own domain, there is probably no need to know, but I suspect the team who put this revised […]
Free Phone Calls Over The Internet
Firstly I’d like to say that I am an affiliate for Skype so, as you will gather, this is a sales post. What is Skype? Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls over the Internet. They say they are revolutionizing the telecoms world by allowing users to make superior […]
Google Bombing
I was reading a book called The Rough Guide To Blogging and I came across something called Google Bombing. It seems that Bloggers sometimes use their collective linking power to have fun at Google’s expense. If they can make a concentrated effort to point to a particular site in great numbers, all using the same […]
Yahoo buys MyBlogLog
Yes, it’s true! I first read this story on Echo Mixed Nuts and couldn’t believe it. After further research, I was getting mixed signals from different websites. Some reported MyBlogLog has been sold for about 10 million, while others were reporting that they were still in the early stages with Yahoo! After going right to […]
Key word ideas from Wordtracker
Mike Perry was writing about keywords and how a phrase is better than a single keyword. Coincidentally, this month’s newsletter from Wordtracker, THE best keyword resource available, goes into detail about “tail end” keyword phrases. The common mistake is to fight for first page recognition with a single keyword. If you sell wallets and you […]