Archive for January, 2008
BD Recruitment Ltd of Manchester I will never use your services!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008OK, this one is part whinge and part point about marketing. There is a company called BD recruitment who claim to do creative, technical and marketing recruitment and placement. They cold called me ages ago and the guy was OK so I let him know that he could call me back in a few months […]
Newsnight calls on political blogger for comments
Friday, January 25th, 2008I had mixed feelings when watching Newsnight last night. Initially I was happy to see Kirsty Wark seeking expert opinion from a blogger about the Peter Hain resignation… I think it demonstrates how forward thinking the BBC are… but then I listened to his expert opinion.
John Hurst, the writer of prisonlawinsideout, is a prolific legal […]
New Labour Party Scandal Sees Vote Share Plummet!
Friday, January 25th, 2008Well perhaps that’s over stating it just a little bit but I was rather surprised to see that the labour party website doesn’t have a custom 404 page. Why is that important? Well, if someone follows a link to a page that no longer exists or follows a link that has […]
Microsoft is Spam?
Monday, January 7th, 2008Sometimes it seems to me that Microsoft’s mission in life is to make everything as difficult for everybody possible, including themselves. The rather kind and lovely people who provide our technical support are Axon IT. They are Microsoft certified Gold Partners. Every year they have to submit references from clients like us and the odd […]
What is Business Blogging?
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008First of all it makes sense to provide a loose definition of what a blog actually is:
A blog is a simple to manage website, or portion of a website, where the entries are displayed in reverse chronological order. The entries are generally in the form of diarised comments.
A blog can also be considered as an […]
Ebay Pay Per Click Campaign… Sort It Out
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008You’ve probably noticed them now and again, you search for something online, and up pops a weird or inappropriate advert in the sponsored listings.
Ebay is often guilty of this; they tend to bid on common terms and use “broad matches”, which offer a larger number of keyphrase variations, but it also means the advert may […]
This Was Supposed To Be A Sensible Article - 2007 Search Trends
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Most of us in the industry have now realised that Google is God, but did you realise how she orders web pages in search results?
Apparently results are compiled from a combination of web based algorithms, human editors and pigeons… (well, the latter was perhaps based on a Google April fools from a couple of years […]