October 2007

15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn

posted by Gary Cottam on October 29, 2007 in News

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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 …

Arresting Spam With CAPTCHA

posted by Gary Cottam on October 29, 2007 in Website Design

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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 …

Increasing Site Traffic By Targeting Geographic Areas

posted by Gary Cottam on October 27, 2007 in SEO

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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 …

Publishing Videos On Your Website Or Blog

posted by Gary Cottam on October 25, 2007 in Web Video

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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 …

What is Google up to? PR Penalty

posted by Gary Cottam on October 24, 2007 in SEO

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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 …

Optimising Your Blog For Better Search Engine Rankings

posted by Gary Cottam on October 19, 2007 in Blogging