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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 4 of 8

15 March 2010

META Description Over the years META tags have been abused by many in order to try and manipulate search results. But in doing so many sites have been blacklisted. The importance of good META can’t be stressed enough and in this part of my mini series on SEO, I want to discuss why taking the [...]

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140conf London: ‘How real time web is facilitating offline interactivity

10 March 2010

Just on the train heading into London for tonights #140conf London meetup themed ”How real time web is facilitating offline interactivity’ It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that communicating online using social networking platforms and tools can be a ‘cost effective’ (subjective I know…) alternative to its historical big brother. But what’s even [...]

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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 3 of 8

8 March 2010

Page <title> & how it helps increase search engine visibility This is part 3 of 8 of my mini series on SEO. Currently, people use search engines the most to discover websites that contain the most relevant content that they’re looking for. And the ‘Search’ function is also the most used ways site visitors navigate [...]

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SEO: No animals were harmed in creating this website – part 2 of 8

3 March 2010

URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) Yesterday I wrote the intro to this 8 part mini series on SEO. So without further a do, let’s get stuck straight in. Firstly, this isn’t a discussion on what static or dynamic URLs are. (If you want to know to the difference then take a look at this aritcle although [...]

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One for your toolbox: TweetBeep

26 February 2010

Free Twitter Alerts by Email! Let’s face it, twitter is fab! And has many uses… But it’s functionality is a bit limited (but it’s simple and that’s why we love it!). But there are developers that use the twitter Api and come up with some great addons. And TweetBeep is one of those online apps [...]

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Return on Involvement: what people want

24 February 2010

I talk about the new ROI (return on involvement) a lot – maybe too much? Not enough? I don’t know, you tell me…. But if I wanted to sum up one benefit each for small and larger organisations then: Small is the new big For small businesses, successfully competing in a local market will come [...]

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One for your toolbox: discussing DisQus

19 February 2010

At first glance you might be fooled into thinking that Disqus (pronounced ‘Discuss’) was just another commenting system – but… you’d be mistaken. I thought the same, 9 months ago. Actually, if I’m being honest I originally installed it because it looked better, asthetically speaking, than any of the other options. But now I wouldn’t [...]

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Online reputation: building, monitoring, managing

16 February 2010

When prospective customers, clients or even employees are searching for you, what will they find within the search results? Could there be something there that isn’t favourable? It might be that it’s through no fault of your own – a disgruntled employee or a competitor posting anonymously perhaps, or it could be because you’ve done [...]

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I tweet therefore I am

8 February 2010

You and I have opinions. We have favourite foods (mine’s Thai by the way), books , films and personalities. We like to play sports – when we can. We love the Sci-Fi channel but don’t understand why Eastenders is so popular (subjective opinion so might see a mass exodus of twitter followers ) We like [...]

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