Archive for October, 2007

15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn

Oct 292007

published by Gary in News with No comments

The BBC today reports on “15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn“.

It is not often that I write about general news items, but that seems like a heck of a lot of money, albeit dollars.

I started to read through the 15, but with deadlines looming, it’s time to get back to the real world!!

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Arresting Spam With CAPTCHA

Oct 292007

published by Gary in Website Design with 2 comments

Do you receive lots of spam from your contact from on your web site? Spammers can exploit your contact form script to send tons of spam your way. Sometimes the problem escalates so much that your hosting company threatens to close down your account if you do not take corrective measures to stop spam from […]

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Increasing Site Traffic By Targeting Geographic Areas

Oct 272007

published by Gary in SEO with 6 comments

A number of my clients provide services either nationally of locally. Often their most popular keyphrases are those that include a geographic identifier such as “Cambridge SEO Services“.
To enable targeting of each geographic area be it a town or city with any number of service offerings, I am trialling system that dynamically generates a landing […]

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Publishing Videos On Your Website Or Blog

Oct 252007

published by Gary in Web Video with 6 comments

With the cost of hosting space and bandwidth reducing by the week it has become quite easier to publish videos on your blog or website. Now why would you publish a video? You can make use of a video in many ways; for instance you can publish a video on your blog or website to

Greet […]

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What is Google up to? PR Penalty

Oct 242007

published by Gary in SEO with 14 comments

Just read that Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger blog and others have had their PR reduced even further.
A quick look and guess what Phoenirealm has dropped from PR5 to PR3, this is after a initial drop a few days ago.
What is Google up to?

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Optimising Your Blog For Better Search Engine Rankings

Oct 192007

published by Gary in Blogging with No comments

Although most of the traffic to your blog comes from other web sites and blogs, the search engines can send you lots of traffic and you can really leverage this potential by optimising your blog for better search engine rankings.
Your ranking in the search engines depends a lot on the way you generate your blog […]

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Accessibility And SEO

Oct 172007

published by Gary in Accessibility with 1 comment

Are you aware that if your website is accessible it is also search engine friendly? By “accessible” I don’t mean that your website should be hosted on a server and it should be accessible to all your visitors, I mean that is assumed, right? Accessibility regarding websites means that your website is accessible to people […]

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What if Google Had to Design For Google?

Oct 172007

published by Gary in Website Design with 3 comments

Slashdot:
An anonymous reader writes “Web developers increasingly grow weary of having to put so much effort into designing their sites according to the whims of the Google search engine. When the most important thing is ‘getting indexed’ it is increasingly difficult for web site designers to offer the simple, uncluttered user experience they’d like to. […]

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Advantages Of Using Tableless Layouts

Oct 152007

published by Gary in Website Design with 2 comments

Are you still using tables to create your layouts?
Well if you are there is nothing earth shattering about it, it’s just that by creating DIV-based, tableless layouts you not only create a web site with less source code, you also make it W3C compatible (The W3C guidelines recommend tableless layouts).
Why table based layouts after all?
Web […]

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The power of Stumbleupon

Oct 122007

published by Gary in Social Media with 10 comments

Late last week I noticed an increase in website traffic, instead of averaging 600 for a couple of days unique visitors were hitting high 800’s.

Curious as to what had caused this jump, I investigated further.

Stumbleupon.com was passing me around 3 times the traffic that Google was, nice!!
Why??

I have a post regarding questions an SEO […]

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