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Interrupted Gmail Service 2008-08-13 02:54:29 Yesterday I started hearing from folk that their GMail account had gone haywire. They were locked out or the system kept stalling - and similar experiences were found in Google Calendar and other Google Applications. These issues have now been resolved with Google engineers sorting everything out pretty quickly.
Its a little bit wierd - you [...] Read more:Gmail
, Service
When Link Builders Go Mad (and other stuff too) 2008-08-08 09:36:56 Yep its happened again. Link builders not being happy with developing links for clients websites. The endless drudgery of submitting to directories, cosying upto bloggers, submitting RSS feeds, doing some online PR, syndicating articles and frequent social booking has led to some of my link developer guys deciding to build websites (which at the same [...] Read more:Builders
, stuff
Does everyone know what Search Engine Optimization is? 2008-08-06 06:00:58 I’m just back from my holidays to Greece - it was great thanks for asking. A whole week with no access to a computer, I did come back with some ideas and thoughts of what I could be doing to get better online marketing results for clients so it wasnt all fun and no work.
For [...] Read more:everyone
, Search
, Engine
, Optimization
, Search Engine
PageRank update due - woo hoo :p 2008-07-25 05:38:33 Woo hoo a Pagerank update is apparently imminent. So that’ll give everyone something to talk about while I’m away. Have fun and please try not to kill anyone when the green pixie dust changes. PageRank
is dead anyway :p
I know some of you will be sitting rattling the future pagerank stuff @ SEO chat for [...]
Whats been going on @ Mercury Thread? 2008-07-25 03:21:55 Sorry for not posting for a while. Been dead busy and made some good inroads into all the accounts I’ve been battering into and thought I’d give an insight into what I’ve achieved in the last wee while. As I have a ‘real’ SEO job and do some stuff free lance (and I dont know [...] Read more:Mercury
, Thread
Using links to improve user experiences 2008-07-07 03:40:22 Quick gripe for Monday. Noticed today that BigMouthMedia have a Tumblr page these days - only noticed because it links
to a post I did previously. Anyway from this I found my way to their Twitter page and from here to their new homepage with updated flash movie.
So here I am with a wee flash [...] Read more:experiences
My Monday Morning RSS Digest 2008-06-30 05:43:49 Like almost everyone going to work on a Monday
morning I’m filled with a sense of mild despair. For two days I’ve donw what I want and all of a sudden I’m placed back into the office. But I’ve found that having a great RSS digest helps me kick start the morning - that and [...] Read more:Morning
, Digest
, Monday Morning
Next Gen Galley XSS Security Flaw 2008-06-18 05:58:49 I’ve been using the Next Gen Gallery on a couple of affiliate blogs lately to add something more interesting in them. My design skills aint great so anything that I could use easily within wordpress is a great help. I just found out that there is an XSS flaw in the Next Gen Gallery script. [...]
When on earth will web developers start using search engine friendly redirects? 2008-06-13 05:13:36 Once again, for about the tenth time in as many weeks, I’ve found redirects on websites made by supposedly good web companies using the wrong kind of redirects and F**king up my clients results when they launch a new website.
All the way through any redesign/development project the most important thing to be aware of is [...]
Are Paid Links Acceptable 2008-09-17 05:57:52 I’ve been chatting to a company recently about helping them with their SEO efforts - they’re looking to do the content and I’ll be doing the link development. Is an equitable split of work and they’re a reasonably well known brand - leaders within their field - just lacking generic positioning. And as we all [...] Read more:Acceptable
The Great Online Advert Swindle 2008-09-10 07:33:42 God I’m getting annoyed today - was happy when I got into the office but now I’m angry and getting angrier. And today the object of my impatience and wrath are website adverts. Not the crappy little popups telling me I’m the millionth visitor or that I have spyware and should click on some Windows [...] Read more:Great
, Advert
, Swindle
Google Chrome Easter Egg 2008-09-05 05:19:56 This is going to be the last post about GoogleChrome
- for this week anyway
I just got an email telling me about an Easter
egg within the Google browser. In the address bar of the browser type ‘about:internets’ and you get a hidden little thing.
On a similar theme of you type just [...] Read more:Easter Egg
Google Chrome - Crashing with Symantec (Part 2) 2008-09-03 10:39:29 As mentioned in previous post you can turn off the sandboxing in GoogleChrome
to stop it conflicting with Symantec
Endpoint Protection. However this is really a bit of a hack and as the sandbox is one of the cool things in Google Chrome turning it off isn’t really a great solution. As sandboxing means [...]
Google Chrome Crashing with Symantec 2008-09-03 04:02:03 But Don’t Worry We Know How To Fix It
I’ve been sitting at work trying to get the new browser from Google
- Chrome
, to work on my office PC. And it didn’t work I kept getting an initialisation error. After some swearing, some throwing things etc I found the fix.
Getting Google Chrome working if you [...] Read more:Symantec
Google Browser Announced - Google Chrome 2008-09-02 03:53:39 God I hate geeks :p But this morning Jamie emailed me about a new Google
browser (called Google Chrome
)- you can tell I was working late last night when I completely missed this by turning off my mail client and thereby not seeing the RSS feeds which now fill Thunderbird about this.
Google Browser Links
So TY [...]
Is the credit crunch killing your holiday plans? 2008-08-29 06:11:51 Times are tough. Every where I look people re crying out about recessions and negative equity and thoroughly depressing prospects. In these times can you afford to not go on holiday? It sounds strange I know but my girlfriend has started pestering me about holidays for next year already. But she has her sights set [...] Read more:credit
, plans
Are Link Directories any use? 2008-08-28 03:57:19 I’m going to test them and see
I’ve always used link directories. They’re quick and cheap ways to get links. But that’s the problem - if they’re cheap, easy and quick that means the links they deliver are usually of really low quality. Unless you’ve got a reasonably old website with a bit of good history, [...] Read more:Directories
Can I get a trackback from Number 10? 2008-10-30 11:48:47 Just noticed while browsing that is on WordPress. So I’d like to say a big congratulations and I’m glad that the UK government has been listening to all the online buzz about how great WordPress is.
To celebrate I thought I’d give them some trackback spam.
:p Read more:Number
Google Analytics - Visualise Tab 2008-10-23 15:28:01 I was just wandring through some of the cool stuff that I’d found about the recent update to Google
analytics. The Google Analytics
team have went all social media and released You Tube videos to help all us lowly web site owners/analysts use their software. The thing that got my attention was the ‘visualise’ option. [...] Read more:Google Analytics
Imagine Google being your Affiliate on your Programs 2008-10-20 08:23:42 There is no point in getting too angry too often. And when it comes to PPC I rarely get angry or feel any other emotion. Everything in PPC can generally be scoped, planned, projected, dissected to within an inch of its ROI driven life. To me personally that makes it a bit dull - its [...] Read more:Google
, Affiliate
, Imagine
, Programs
Are you a Pestonphile too? 2008-11-06 08:27:51 Over the last couple of months Robert Peston, the business editor at the BBC has been everywhere. When I get up in the morning he’s on the radio and he’s on Newsnight most nights. I’ve even started reading Pestons’ blog and have subscribed to his RSS feed to get a more regular fix.
His blog is [...]
You, Me, Carpark, NOW… 2008-11-04 07:21:12 Always liked the ring of that phrase. Far better than ‘Hi, how are you?’. Anyway have been running about the web trying to work out WTF Google has been upto recently - results are so screwey its half cock up (think Chris Iwelumo against Norway) and half comedy show (Homer Simpson’s been left in charge [...]
Social Media just got me to buy stuff online 2008-11-03 07:39:48 And I’m not sure I like it!
God I hate the Internet sometimes. Generally when I’ve just done something I spend all my time advising people against - buying based upon what someone you dont know says. I’ve just ordered some stuff
from Graze.com on the basis of what Kieron from here.org.uk wrote in his blog.
Why [...] Read more:Social
, online
, Social Media
Number10.gov.uk - title attribute spamming? 2008-10-31 09:39:46 Over at number10.gov.uk I was messing about yesterday to see if they ahd left trackbacks on. Before every spammer starts pinging them they don’t. Which impressed me.
What hasn’t impressed me is the level of content within the title attributes within the calendar widgets on the site. The title attribute on the link for October the [...] Read more:Number
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