Archive for January, 2010

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This week, Metro announced the launch of their news iPhone App, the FirstFound blog reviews this interesting move from the North West UK based newspaper and identifies the broader context of what similar moves mean for the news industry.

The top 5 most important considerations for an effective link building campaign from naturally generated links won for good content, to social media and creative link building strategies to future proof your search engine optimisation strategy for 2010.

Over the past decade, the Internet hasn’t just been a space for businesses to make money. It’s allowed people to connect. As we move into 2010, the Internet is now the most important social space on the planet, and social pages are the most powerful pages on the net. It’s not enough that you’ve got [...]

This is the second part to discussing conversion in our Basket Cases blogs.  In this blog post I carry on with explaining how improving conversion can be a valuable tool for e-retailers to improve sales and gain better understanding of their online presence.

Today, Google announced a recent ‘sophisticated’ GMail attack on their servers from China. They claim to have uncovered evidence that the goal of the attack was to access the private GMail accounts of Chinese human rights activists which have long been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. A Pivotal Moment for the [...]

Today I will be discussing some of my favourite, must-have iPhone Apps for Internet and network debugging, SEO and Web ranking tools, telnet and secure shell (SSH) clients and MySQL database access that every self-respecting Web developer, SEO consultant and network engineer should have!

At the start of the 2000s, all the content a company needed could be found on its website. As we move into the next decade, more and more content will be found on external blogs. Search engines love blogs, social networks love blogs, and users love blogs. Why?

There’s a very good reason that most of Moscow’s public transport is underground. Trying to get anywhere in the snow is very hard work indeed.

As eight inches of snow blanketed the North West, commuters in and around Manchester were probably wishing for a windproof underground transit system and a nip of warming vodka. Instead, all they got was a cavalcade of delays, disruption and cancellations.

Over the forthcoming weeks I will be discussing issues on ecommerce and selling online, by covering the basics that every site owner, larger or small should be interested in.  To start off, I will explore conversion and with the Christmas season just gone, this is a hot topic for all retailers.  


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