Monthly Archives: August 2008

Is the credit crunch killing your holiday plans?

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Are Link Directories any use?

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, [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Blogging, General Daftness, Link Building, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, google | Comments (3)

Interrupted Gmail Service

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in gmail, google | Comments (0)

When Link Builders Go Mad (and other stuff too)

August 8, 2008 – 2:36 pm

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Blogging, Link Day | Comments (0)

Does everyone know what Search Engine Optimization is?

August 6, 2008 – 11:00 am

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 [...]

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