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There are many websites that now provide a grading service for your site. Some are focussed on SEO and marketing and some are strictly for web design and coding. Many of these …
Comparison of a few Website SEO and Grading Tools Read MoreRunning various blogs I get many spam comments. Most of them are trashed immediately, sometimes I reply, after removing the links, just to leave a witty comment. Today someone wrote …
Talking To Robots – Talking To Nobody But Myself Read MoreOn the morning of August 15, 2011, a glaring headline in every newspaper caught the attention, and baffled, many technology buffs: “Google Buys Motorola Mobility.” The Players For anyone that …
Google’s Motive Behind the Mobility Acquisition Read MoreThe British conservative party have suggested that they will use Google or Microsoft to store and manage patient data for the National Health Service. This may come as a surprise …
Google Comes Of Age as Conservatives Suggest Storing NHS Data on its Servers Read MoreEvery year the Yellow Pages gets smaller and smaller. This is because the worlds ink lakes are slowly dry up. What will business do when there is no ink left? …
Pocket Yellow Pages Read MoreAnother bit if Google Social Media Circle is out today, the Plus 1 / +1 recommendation button in search. Basically, when you search now you may see a little +1 …
Google Plus 1 Recommendations Read MoreJust spent the last few days trying to get clean urls to work on my Ubuntu apache2 server, and finally found a thread on a Drupal forum. It turned out …
Mod rewrite / clean urls for Drupal on Ubuntu Apache Server Read MoreOK, this post will seem very strange to most readers. I am in the process of installing Apache onto my Ubuntu distribution, and I want to record everything that happens. …
Installing Apache Read MoreYesterday Google was in the UK High Court. The ruling was in favour of Google, and was that Google is not liable for any defamatory comments that appear in its …
Google Declared a Facilitator of Web Content, Not a Publisher Read MoreSince the whole Panda / Penguin thing (totally different, but get bundled together all the time now) people have started to ask some pretty dumb questions. The newest question I …
What Is Natural Link Building? Is all SEO Unnatural? Read MoreOK, I finally moved to a better platform for my newsletters. I was using PHPList, but was getting very annoyed with it as it took forever to send out emails …
Email Newsletters – From PHPList to MailChimp Read MoreOK, just found out where I am going wrong. And I am going wrong in more ways than one. Firstly, I need to modify the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to allow .htaccess rules …
Rock and Roll! .htaccess is running Read MoreThe first, and really only, forum that I have participated in regarding SEO (search engine optimisation) and other general web stuff, is Search Guild. I am not sure how long …
SearchGuild.com is dead. Poor hosting has destroyed my favourite SEO forum. Read MoreMany people use Google Adsense adverts on their sites to help pay for the hosting costs, and some websites can generate a good income through advertising once the number of …
The Value of Adsense ads to Web Site Publishers Read MoreBy Darren Wall For years, consumers have been trickling away from traditional television services. Largely, this is a result of the economy, which unfortunately is still on quite shaky ground. …
Sky Now TV – Watch TV On Demand with Your Smartphone or Tablet Read MoreJust received notice from CJ.com (Commission Junction) regarding new tax laws, and that non-US citizens / non-US publishers need to declare themselves so. Anyone running a business that uses US …
Why UK Affiliate Pubishers Should Not Have US Managed Servers Read MoreThere used to be a time when if a woman wanted to con a man out of a lot of money she would have to befriend him, woo him, marry …
Online Dating Agency Scams Revealed Read MoreOne thing that continues to puzzle many bloggers, web authors and site owners, is when to use rel=”nofollow” within links to external sites, and when to leave it out. And …
Follow or No-Follow Links – Why Use them and Do They Work? Read MoreRecently at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft unveiled their latest plans to revolutionise the internet and computing. Where Web2.0 brought interactivity to the internet, Windows Asure, will …
Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Service Unveiled: Windows Azure Read MoreAdsense is a great way for owners of small websites to cover their costs through advertising. As Adsense automatically displays adverts based on the content of a site, the webmaster/publisher …
Adsense – how it works Read MoreOK, I have been trying to do everything so far through the terminal, so better understand and learn about the Linux operating system, but I am now finding it more …
Webmin Control Panel Installation for Ubuntu Read MoreYandex.com, Russia’s version of Google, floated today in another huge IPO. You can read all about the Yandex IPO here. Yandex offers a search engine which is tailored for the …
Yandex, The Russian Search Engine, Floats Read MoreI get several emails every day asking me to exchange links with people. If I accepted all the “offers” there would be thousands of links on my site now cluttering …
Website Owners – Be Careful With Link Exchange Scams Read MoreGot lots of help and advice this evening from my mate who is a bit of a wizard with computers. This evening I learnt these handy commands: (find . -type …
Good Tuition Makes Fast Progress with Linux Read More