Monthly Archives: April 2008

Social Networking – What is it good for?

April 29, 2008 – 4:27 pm

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 you can [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Social Media | Comments (0)

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Website Design | Comments (0)

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in General Daftness | Comments (0)

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Improving Conversion Rates, Internet Marketing, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, Social Media, Website Design | Comments (0)

3 reasons why your PPC traffic isn’t converting

April 21, 2008 – 11:38 am

I could never do PPC for a living – the whole idea of bidding up & bidding down to earn a crust would drive me not only to distraction but also mad. One thing with PPC you can do with great accuracy, that its very difficult to do with other Internet Marketing channels, is predict [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Internet Marketing, PPC Ad Writing, PPC Landing Pages, Pay Per Click | Comments (3)

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 to [...]

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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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Blogging | Comments (0)

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 just now
Oyster Web [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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