Archive for the Blogs category

digg and myspace out of time 50 best websites 2009

Every year time.com, the Time Magazine website, releases a list of the top 50 best websites and this year there are some suprises, at least in my opinion.
Time’s criteria to choose these sites is quite simple, they pick websites that help users improve their internet experience like yelp.com and its UK version yelp.co.uk - Yelp [...]

Prescott Uses Social Media & Blogging to Promote Climate Change

John Prescott, who is an unlikely fan of blogging, recently raised his profile through the use of twitter using it to post news about the Tories and NHS.
The politician is also planning to use social networking sites to try to get people involved in a global deal on climate change.
In his new role, Prescott is [...]

social networking buzz on digg twitter and more

Over the last couple of weeks a lot of buzz has been coming from the top social networking communities, from framed content to who will be the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitter. Here is a quick a round up of what’s been going on.

Leading the pack we have Digg.com who launched the [...]

SEO; It is not as Easy as it Seems

Continuing from where we left off in our last post with Google starting to dominate the search market and, setting the rules to how webmasters and SEOs should optimise their sites to be indexed, gain visibility and ranking their sites high on the SERPs.
The job of an Search Engine Optimiser it not only knowing how [...]

Online marketing to succeed the economic downturn.

The world’s economy is going through one of its worst crisis in history, with many experts predicting a global economical recession, countries approving multi-billion dollars bailout programs to help their economies to survive and companies having to cut down their costs.
One of the first things on CEOs and Managing Directors minds is to reduce spending; [...]

Blogging for Business

Have you noticed how you automatically give huge credit and respect to a lecturer or a company trainer for being more knowledgeable than you? You are prepared to listen and take on board exactly what they have to say on a particular subject?
So does it not make sense to find strategic ways to get in [...]

How SEO & Blogging Helped Barack Obama Become President

As we reported in our last post, Barack Obama’s effective use of the internet in his marketing campaign was a key factor in him gaining the support of youth.
And not only did Obama use the internet, he used every online marketing tool there is, including blogging, search engine optimisation (SEO), social media and of course [...]

link your way to the top with the right anchor text

Link building plays an important role in the success of an SEO campaign. When link building, every little helps, because a link is a link and all these links build up the link popularity of a site. In this post I’ll talk about the most important factor of a site’s link popularity, the anchor text.
Wikipedia [...]

Blogging Requires Quality Not Quantity

In my experience of blogging I have found that authors tend to make the mistake of writing very long posts, then wonder why they have no time to update their blogs regularly.
The key thing to know when writing blogs is that 1. search engines are looking for keywords not how much you’ve written 2. people [...]

New SEO plugin “ClikStats” for Wordpress

ClikStats was developed over the Christmas period by one of THUK’s development team “Adrian Callaghan” who was looking into furthering his knowledge of his wordpress Blog.
Adrian had an idea to make an SEO plugin, this allowed him to track the traffic going through his own blog to enable him to analyse what was clicked, who [...]

Detecting A Hacked Word Press Site

An unfortunate down side to having any website is that unscrupulous hackers will try to break in and add their own pages or try to hijack your site for their own ends; normally to promote pornography, fake medicines or to host the site to infect other peoples pc’s with viruses and/or to steal credit card [...]

Digg the Power of Influence

Digg is one of the most popular social networking sites, with millions of users from around the globe sharing the content found on the internet with the Digg community.
There are no editors at Digg, it is the users who decide how good the content is by voting or let’s say “digging” others peoples’ content found [...]