September 17, 2008 – 10:57 am
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 know generic terms are where you’ll make incremental sales and attract new business.
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September 10, 2008 – 12:33 pm
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 95 style icon but the high quality adverts that are on a huge pile of websites.
My problem - they’re killing websites I visit and making my browsing experience bloody awful. Went to the guardian website to read about a joke Andy Murray made after losing the US Open tennis final, I’m no real fan of tennis but it sounded like it would be a funny interview, and instead I wait for thrity seconds for a three paragraph story to load as the adserver is taking ages to pass the adverts to the site.
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September 5, 2008 – 10:19 am
This is going to be the last post about Google Chrome - 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 ‘about’ into your address bar of Google Chrome you’ll be shown the details about the user-agent of the browser - so you can now test add that to your list of user agents when checking which browsers you need to ensure your website displays correctly.
September 3, 2008 – 3:39 pm
As mentioned in previous post you can turn off the sandboxing in Google Chrome 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 if the page running in one browser tab crashed the whole browser doesn’t crash. By using the previous hack you’re simply going to experience FirFox style crashes with your nice new Google browser.
The Elegant Solution to fix Google Chrome
The best solution would be to get rid of Symantec altogether and get a better anti-virus system - I don’t like it in the first place. But this isn’t going to be appropriate for everyone so instead…
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September 3, 2008 – 9:02 am
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.
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September 2, 2008 – 8:53 am
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.
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August 29, 2008 – 11:11 am
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 on a ‘luxury holiday’ - her thoughts being that as no one is buying a holiday that the good ones must be less expensive now.
Does anyone know if this is the case as I’m getting concerned about how much next years holiday is going to end up costing me! she wants to go to St Kitts (I’ve been to see the cricket there and it was lovely but the prices seem a bit high and her ‘theory’ seems way off).
August 28, 2008 – 8:57 am
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, some decent back links and a reasonable chunk of PageRank they do very little. All they do is add to the keywords that are pointing to the domain - which helps with search engine positions but not a great deal unless you already have some PageRank etc.
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August 13, 2008 – 7:54 am
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 get something for free and you get lots of complaints when it breaks! What do people expect of Google that said the telling line in one email I received regarding these problems with google applications included:
“[It's] Kind of annoying when I’m trying to do things, and kind of unusual for them; they’re normally very reliable.
Maybe they hired some useless XXXXX from Myspace…”
Cheers to Ronnie the email made me laugh.
UPDATE
Google have posted an apology online in response to their mini-crisis here.
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 time as being pretty cool is a bit scary - they’ll be wanting to write content and do technical stuff soon).
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