July 2009

Social Network Marketing in Business – What’s Changed?

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in Online Internet Marketing

I reviewed an article I wrote about 11 months ago on the use of on-line Social Networking in business to see whether much has changed. What I found is that some things have changed, but the basic premise has not. You still have to recognise some basics and work with them, and you still need [...]

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How to Create a Search Engine Effective Web Page

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in SEO

I’m often amazed when I look at the source code of web pages, because creating a page that’s optimised for the search engines is so straightforward – yet so seldom done. I’ve said repeatedly: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not a black art, so don’t let anyone tell you it is. All you need to [...]

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At Last: A Twitter Desktop Application I Can Read

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in Product & Site Reviews

I’ve been using the Seesmic Twitter desktop application for a couple of weeks now and I like it. Mostly because I can read its screen easily. Its closest competitor is probably TweetDeck, which I reviewed here. Seesmic and TweetDeck have a lot of similarities, but also some important differences. Here are some thoughts on Seesmic.  

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Searching on WordPress Blogs Part 2

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in Wordpress

Well – I have to eat my own words. Back here I wrote a post about how I improved the search functionality on this blog by searching for and adding a new plugin. In that post I was critical of Google Custom Search. Recently that plugin that I eventually installed was updated, a move which [...]

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How to Create a WordPress Photo Gallery

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in Wordpress

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A Rant About Auto Upgrading Plugins

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in Wordpress

This is just a ranting article… I use the automatic plugin-upgrade function on WordPress because I’m short of time. But the benefits of doing that are completely wiped out when the upgrade has the effect of erasing all your plugin settings and disabling it. There were two plugin upgrades yesterday on which that happened.   

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More Good WordPress Plugins

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in Wordpress

Back here and here I listed some plugins that I generally use on new blogs. Since then I’ve come across some more. However, as I’ve mentioned previously, you should be thoughtful about the plugins you install. Not all of them are faultlessly coded and those that rely on external sites for data (e.g. related sites [...]

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What’s All This SEO Stuff?

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in Web Basics

When you first start working online the amount of jargon and acronyms you see can be extremely off-putting. Which is no different from starting any new type of activity, by the way, but for people who may be a bit nervous of technology it can be enough to keep you from getting started. So let’s [...]

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