Archive for April, 2007

Linky Love Army

My mate Col Love is building an army of bloggers for his collaborative blogging project. The plan is to come up with a cohesive network of bloggers supporting one another in a number of different initiatives. Great idea with loads of potential. Will be fun to see how far it goes. So, if you have […]

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Apogee Search Blog

I’ve been hanging around the Apogee Search Blog to learn more about how they run their search optimisation programmes and I was was pretty impressed with some of the results they have achieved. You can have a look at their Top Yahoo Rankings for example. Pretty impressive.
Anyway, there’s lots to learn, so I’ve signed up […]

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Top Recovery Tool

LifeHacker has a great collection of Top free Computer System Recovery Tools. The post is actually about the top 10 tools, but there’s a wealth of other links in the comments that follow the post. Here’s what they recommend:

SuperDuper! (Mac boot drive maker)
Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder (Windows)
USB PC Repair Kit (Windows)
Undelete Plus (Windows file […]

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Search Engine Optimization

It’s interesting to see how SEO companies operate and what sort of results they offer to their customers. Today I was looking at eTrafficJams.com, a search engine optimization company based in the US that claims to be a pioneer in pay for performance services for organic rankings. They are so confident in their abilities that […]

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Earning through text links

One way you can cover your hosting costs is to sell spots on your website/blog to advertisers. You can approach these yourself, however it’s usually more convenient to join a network/scheme that takes these spots to a wider audience.
One scheme we’re running across The Only Network is Text Link Ads. These will display text adverts […]

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Spam, spam and more spam

Do you feel that you sometimes spend your entire mornings clearing up spam from your email? Well, if that’s the case it might be worth investing in some spam-killing software. One such package is mailwasher pro spam blocker which is used by over 7 million people to keep their email clean. One of the great […]

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Add URL Online

One was to help encourage traffic on your website is to get listed on a Search Directory; and if it’s an SEO-friendly one this can also help to increase your kudos with search engines. I’ve listed some of our sites with Add URL Online today which is a well-designed search directory that lets you submit […]

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Entering the Bloggers Choice Awards

We’ve had he privilege of being nominated for the Bloggers Choice Awards for Best Blogging Hosts. It’s the first time these blog awards are being run, and there’s bound to be loads of competition as everyone jostles for a position.
The awards are being run by PayPerPost, who not only provide a marketplace for bloggers and […]

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Wordpress 2.1.3 (and 2.0.10)

There’s a new version of WordPress in town and as always, I’m recommending to everyone that they upgrade as soon as they can. Here’s what the release contains:
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future […]

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007