I’ve spent an age avoiding getting involved in Social Networking of any real note. I’ve always contributed to forums, stuck comments on blogs and wasted time on newsgroups. But recently I’ve been messing around researching what these Social Network things can do for me. The results have been surprising. Social Network – Ning At Ning [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Flash Tween Library
April 28, 2008 – 3:23 pm
I don’t know a lot about Flash – probably as for a long time it was more of a help than a hinderance on websites (mostly due to Flash developers than Flash itself). But during a chat with Paddy from Equator – he’s their main flash monkey that said he’s not responsible for their current [...]
The UK Parliament goes a bit mental
April 25, 2008 – 4:10 pm
In recent weeks I am convinced that the British Government and its assosciated departments and quangos are all mad. Over at Number 10 they thought it would be a great idea to start using Twitter! Yep that thing thats used for wasting time and messing about with has a number 10 twitter. You can find [...]
Direct Response (Behaviourally Adaptive) Websites
April 23, 2008 – 11:38 pm
What if your website could talk directly to your consumers? I don’t mean just simply be relevant but be able to intuit from their actions what they really wanted from your website and then return tyhe appropriate messages? It would deliver better conversion rates and drive up your profitability. Irrelevant of how much it cost [...]
MercuryThread and the Internet Marketing Journal UK
April 10, 2008 – 1:09 pm
In every project I work on the first step is to silo everything out so that I can work in managable chunks. Whether than be keyword groups in SEO, case study led development or developing affiliate content. Every goal needs to be broken down into small enough pieces to allow for flexibility and control. Duly [...]
WordPress Themes that make you go WOW!!!
April 6, 2008 – 7:54 pm
WordPress is great. It lets me do everything I could ever want from making templates for websites, reconfiguring layout to have blogs, magazines and websites all within the one CMS just by hacking with templates, I can develop plugins and if I break it there is a huge community out there to help – and [...]
Link Day Number 1
April 3, 2008 – 4:44 pm
These are the palces we’re currently features and folks we wanted to send some links out to. A Big Shout Out Hobo Web – if you’re looking for stuff about SEO then have a look at the blog well worth the effort North South Media – These guys are doing some cool online marketing things [...]
How to Check that Your WordPress Blog is Pinging
April 2, 2008 – 7:23 pm
This is the last post in the series we’ve been doing about WordPress and pinging blog aggregation services. I’ve been scouting around really desperately testing various pieces of kit to be able to prove, mainly to myself, that my clients blogs are pinging effectively – this has been ok on servers we run but on [...]
3 sites you should ping to maximise your blog visbility
April 1, 2008 – 12:42 pm
Years ago, in a dimly lit living room Peter Hoggan started talking to me about blog and ping as a way of increasing website visibility. To be honest it was late, I’d just driven home from the other side of the country and all I wanted to do was get a pint or ten. But [...]