Category Archives: Blogging

Whats been going on @ Mercury Thread?

Sorry for not posting for a while. Been dead busy and made some good inroads into all the accounts I’ve been battering into and thought I’d give an insight into what I’ve achieved in the last wee while. As I have a ‘real’ SEO job and do some stuff free lance (and I dont know [...]

My Monday Morning RSS Digest

Like almost everyone going to work on a Monday morning I’m filled with a sense of mild despair. For two days I’ve donw what I want and all of a sudden I’m placed back into the office. But I’ve found that having a great RSS digest helps me kick start the morning – that and [...]

Next Gen Galley XSS Security Flaw

I’ve been using the Next Gen Gallery on a couple of affiliate blogs lately to add something more interesting in them. My design skills aint great so anything that I could use easily within wordpress is a great help. I just found out that there is an XSS flaw in the Next Gen Gallery script. [...]

Friday Links – Week One

Just some daft stuff I’ve found funny this week: Shave the Beaver Chocolate Bar Mashups – now we know what happens when you cross breed a Galaxy with a Milky Bar Lauren Laverne Season – I was going to link but can’t remember the URL but the concept of us now entering Lauren Laverne season [...]

Social Networking – What is it good for?

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 [...]

MercuryThread and the Internet Marketing Journal UK

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!!!

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 [...]

How to Check that Your WordPress Blog is Pinging

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

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 [...]

What to do if WordPress blog pings are not working?

Last week I posted about the problems I was having with wordpress and how it wasn’t pinging. Richie asked in the comments how you can get it working and in an effort to be useful I’ve put together a quick tips list of things to check for and do to get everything working (aswell as [...]