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  • Adwords shenannigans

    I had a fiendish problem to solve today. A client wanted their adwords to link to a page that didn’t actually exist. The page was a search result but he wanted the advert to link to a different search result every day. Sad to say, Google don’t give you that facility, but with a bit…

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  • Keeping up to date using Google Alerts

    Here’s my tip of the week. How to get the news you want, delivered when you want in the format you want. I have been using  ‘Google Alerts’ for many years now and find the tool invaluable. Google Alerts provides me with digests of new news stories on whichever topics I choose. Once it is…

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  • The only logical strategy…

    I rarely post the words of others. However on this occasion the founder of MOZ, Rand Fishkin gets to say it in his own words. Why? Because he is without a shadow of a doubt, totally and utterly right. “The ‘find and abuse exploits’ era of SEO is ending. The only strategy today is to…

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  • Automated blog spam is getting weirder

    When we get emails such as the one I got in my inbox we can surely be forgiven for believing that there might actually be a human at the other end. Not a sane human, obviously, but a totally hatstand wall licker who has been given web access as part of their therapy. Here is…

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  • Should I update my WordPress site.

    Last week I was asked “Should I update my WordPress site?” On the same day, someone else told me they never update their content management system because they are worried about messing their site up. Please let me add my voice to the chorus of “Yes, you must update WordPress”. Whether it is WordPress, Joomla,…

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  • Make a Video and put it on your site.

    Putting a video on your website is a great idea for so many reasons. Videos are more immediate than text. they can convey information quickly. Remember the old phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’? Well what is a half a  minute long video except a series of about 1000 pictures. So, you might…

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  • The free app that could save your business (and your life)

    Smartphone apps for business often promise the earth, but in general, £2.49 later you usually realise you have something that just might, at best shave a minute off your hectic day. However there are smartphone apps out there that can genuinely have a huge effect on how well we work. I have found one such…

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  • Protecting your website from intruders

    This morning I watched a botnet attack. A website we support came under sustained attack from servers around the globe, all seeking to get past the security defences we put in place. For an hour and 20 minutes a series of servers attempted to crack passwords and open backdoors onto our clients web server.  As…

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  • Responsive WordPress Slider

    After months of searching I seem to have found a stand alone responsive slider that actually works well Soliloquy Lite is the only responsive wordpress slider plugin of about a dozen I have tested that doesn’t produce huge formatting errors for me at certain screen resolutions. If you are looking for a basic free slider for…

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  • Design your own icon set

    Here is a tip for webdesigners I really like. I would love to claim credit, but I actually saw it in dotnet magazine, and credit where it is due, this is brilliant. Rather than drawing a new icon set for each project and fiddling with sprites, why not just go to fontello.com and choose the…

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