Review Of ReviewMe
The following is a paid review: I mentioned a few posts back a variety of new ways to monetise my blogs, and ReviewMe was one of them. In the spirit of trying these things out for cold hard dosh, this...
View ArticleBBC's URLs Go Into The West
Having worked in the BBC's mammoth New Media department, at times I was involved in ensuring the correct programme website URLs made it to TV trails and programme credits. Often TV people would never...
View ArticleYou *Will* Fill In The Form...
Now, I can't say I've ever seen this before, maybe my years with Mozilla/Firefox have protected me from this in the past. I followed a link in a promotional email to this place called Etribes. So far...
View ArticleLet's Hear It For Christmas Web Clichés
Ho ho ho and a bottle of Web 2.0 rum. Tis the season to be jolly, for December's here and it's time to celebrate. Forget the fact that you're average marketing driven webmaster is already setting up a...
View ArticleBBC Online Needs To Improve Its Search Engine Friendliness
The BBC's websites often divide opinion and stir emotions, be it angered commercial enterprises or appreciative users, there's little on the planet to match the breadth and depth of the BBC's online...
View ArticleThe Problem With Authority - Google And Comment Spam
If you're an average web surfer, you'll have little idea about the battle that's been waging over the years between Google and web spammers. The spammers want their sites to rank highest so that they...
View Article10 Tips To Get Your Content Ranked In Google In 2007
Ok, I enjoy the raft of end of year light-hearted lists that the time of year brings, and would like to add one of my own for your entertainment. Today, let's take a look at what I believe your average...
View ArticleBack On The Third Party Widget Train
Ah, the joys of playing with third party things on your blog. I've just removed the Performancing advert from the side bar. It was getting depressing seeing that big green 'Advertise Here' badge every...
View ArticleUsing YouTube To Illustrate And Introduce PPC Services
I've spent the last few months changing my focus as a webmaster. I had thought my future earnings as a self-employed web content producer lay with AdSense. Sensing it was not going to happen, I now...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Niche Search Portal In An Afternoon With Google
I'd pretty much ignored the Google Co-op as I was unable to get my head around how to spam use it constructively. Since the end of 2006 it's been popping up here and there in my attention field in the...
View Article10 Reasons Why I Love / Hate MySpace
Ok, so MySpace is not a next big web thing I know. It's fast becoming a last big web thing. It's been there, seen it, done it and had its own worms and court cases to prove it.I've wanted to write...
View ArticleVideo Baiting - SEOs On Camera
We've covered Link Baiting and Digg Baiting around these parts before now, but it looks like their time has come. Forget about them, for a new trend is emerging in the SEO (Search Engine Optimization)...
View Article10 Forms Of Web Site That Lazy Webmasters Love
I have to say I love the forum at Digital Point. It has one of the worst signal-to-noise ratios on the web, but over the years I've got some great tips and deals from there. There's been a lot of crap...
View ArticleGet Clicky With It
Web analytics have long been in need of sexing up. If you run sites, you're probably used to looking at things like Awstats or Webalizer. Both are good and very useful, but if you're like me - you're...
View ArticleThe 1 Second Film
Now, take several of the high points of the last couple of years in inventive web ventures, throw them in a pot, give a good stir and add a dollop of celebrity interaction and you have The 1 Second...
View ArticleFacebook Is The New MySpace, For Grown Ups
Identity thieves will be delighted that they now have access to a whole new echelon of identities to abuse thanks to the increasing growth of Facebook. I'm delighted to hear that MySpace is on the...
View ArticleCyberslackers Get Sacked
I was shocked to see some local news yesterday, regarding the Neath Port Talbot council sacking a member of staff and causing two others to resign. Well, I say shocked, I mean bemused - but shocked...
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