How to promote your blog for traffic
by Brian TurnerIf you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Whether used for Public Relations and customer communication, or for marketing your business and website online, blogs can be a useful business and marketing tool.
However, it’s easy to become overwhelmed when faced with promoting your blog.
Here’s a simple […]
How to market to social networks
by Brian TurnerProblems of marketing to social networks
As hype over Web 2.0 makes social networks a prime target for marketing and advertising campaigns, some of the same mistakes in the dotcom boom of Web 1.0 are being repeated.
Chief among these is the belief that if you throw enough money at websites, the returns will justify the marketing […]
Google addresses W3C link selling
by Brian TurnerGoogle has addressed recent complaints over the W3C selling links on its website.
Google engineer, Matt Cutts, told John Battelle in an interview that a controversial page that allows webmasters to pay for listings on the W3C site now had a “index, nofollow” meta-tag applied - blocking the links from search engines.
The issue arose because links […]
September 27, 2006
How to set up a secure certificate
by Brian TurnerSecure ordering online
When you operate an ecommerce site, the likelihood is that you’ll need to use a secure server to take orders with.
Actually, it’s pretty essential.
Even if you don’t technically need a secure server connection for online payments, your online customers will almost certainly demand one, to ensure that their personal details - not […]
AOL sued for search privacy violations
by Brian Turner
AOL is being served with a class action lawsuit in America, after the company released user data online that allowed users of the AOL search engine to be traced.
It’s the first legal action to arise from AOL’s disastrous - and completely voluntary - disclosure of user search data, and may yet be followed with more.
Although […]
Report says organic listings as valuable as paid search marketing
by Brian Turner
A study by internet marketing firm WebSideStory has found that strong natural listings on search engines are almost as effective as paid search marketing for making sales.
The company tested more than 57 million search engine queries to client sites over the first 8 months of this year, and tracked the conversion rates from organic (natural) […]
The Intel strikes back
by Brian Turner
SPECIAL REPORT
In the face of encroachment by AMD into traditional chip markets, Intel is powering to strike back with a recently announced series of releases.
Key to this is the coming launch of its quad core chip family for x86 servers - Core 2 - along with the development of energy-saving processors.
The Core 2 Extreme, which […]
September 26, 2006
Net delivers mobile domains
by Brian Turner
Public registrations of .mobi - the newly accredited domain name extension - has opened up today.
The aim of .mobi domain names is to cater specifically for mobile device users.
The domain registration body overseeing the project - Mobile Top Level Domain (MTLD) - insists they will ensure that web standards are applied to ensure they […]
September 20, 2006
Torpark browser released to protect privacy
by Brian Turner
A new browser named Torpark has been released, which claims to offer greater privacy protections online.
Torpark is a modified version of the increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser, and connects to the internet via an extensive network of servers and routers set up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The browser was developed by Hacktivismo - an international […]
New DVD format could close HD DVD and Blu Ray rivalry
by Brian Turner
Researchers with Warner Bros. have filed for a patent that allows a single DVD disc to store multiple high definition DVD formats.
The resultant disc would allow standard DVD storage - in addition to also storing both rival High Definition DVD formats, Blu Ray and HD DVD.
The disc would allow this to happen by having three […]
September 19, 2006
Sony laptop batteries recall continues
by Brian Turner
The recall of laptop batteries made by Sony continued this month as Toshiba recalled over 340,000 batteries from its laptops.
The affected Toshiba laptops are the Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite, made between March and May of this year. The reason for the recall is that these batteries can lose power too quickly.
The recall comes on the […]
September 15, 2006
UK housing market powers up
by Brian Turner
Indicators show that the UK property market is powering up again, despite the recent interest rate rise.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) (formerly known as the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM) announced this week that house prices across the UK have risen 6% to July, with the average house price […]
September 13, 2006
How to quickly fail a business
by Brian TurnerStart-up businesses have a high failure rate. Many factors can be involved, from poor planning, to adverse market conditions. It doesn’t have to be anyone’s fault - it’s just a general hazard of starting a new business.
However, there are some very simple and easy ways to fail a business quickly, and we’ll list some of […]
How to succeed in business
by Brian TurnerAlright, we’ve told you how to fail a business – let’s look at how to give your business the best possible chance by looking at elements you’ll want to get right to succeed.
1. Planning
Most sources of advice on starting up a business will rightly point out that you need to plan. But you can’t just […]
UK breaking EU employment law
by Brian Turner
The UK has been judged to be breaking EU employment law, for failing to ensure that workers have proper rest periods.
The case was brought by the European Commission in the European Court of Justice, after the UK was seen to be failing to enforce daily and weekly rest rules.
The rules involve a requirement to allow […]
Economic downturn continues to threaten UK
by Brian TurnerSPECIAL REPORT
The UK economy is facing continued indicators of a slowdown, against the backdrop of a general warning on the state of the Global Economy.
Key challenges facing the UK ecnoomy are the twin evils of rising inflation and rising inflation.
Despite Tony Blair’s claim to the TUC that unemplyment figures are falling, he limited […]
September 3, 2006
Donald Trump site hack warning to business
by Brian Turner
Businesses were again reminded to take proper care of security for their websites, after Donald Trump’s website was found hacked.
A search on Google shows the site has been filled with junk pages and links promoting a third-party pharmaceuticals site.
Webhosting and design company Kattare, responsible for Trump.com, has begun removing the hacked pages, but copies remain […]
September 1, 2006
New Browzar offers private surfing
by Brian Turner
UPDATE: Browzar stands accused of being AdWare, and Techcrunch accuses it as being nothing more than a simple shell to IE which forces Overture ads on its own users.
A new internet browser named Browzer has been released, which is built to specifically protect the privacy of users.
Browzar states that it will strip all surfing history […]