It will be cliché to say that the internet is vastly infinite. Across the planet, there are about 1.8 billion active web surfers who come online. Plus, there are probably billions upon trillions of websites that can be visited on a daily basis. If you are running your own website, shouldn’t you be doing something to make it to stand out from the crowd?

When you create your website, what are the factors that you consider most important?

Is it the color scheme, the graphics, number of pages, or the content? If you answered all of the above, then you are on the right track to creating a profitable site that people will want to visit. But what else can you do to get more traffic to come into your site? The answer lies in SEO and keywords.
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After the recent WordPress 2.9.2 update I noticed that the comments within this blog stopped working – I have since noticed the same problem across a few other self-hosted wordpress sites.

The problem comes about after a user has posted a comment to an article and then they are greeted by a blank screen from the wp-comments-post.php – seems at first the page just won’t redirect back to the original post.
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I tried earlier this evening to twin up my facebook and twitter accounts, so I could share my twitter tweets with my newly formed NorthSouthMedia page on facebook (perhaps if your interested and want to hook up – you can become a fan here).

Now, I can integrate my facebook updates simply with twitter, however, when I go though the same process on my twitter account…
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Today, I slapped myself on the wrist – hard – not because it was something that I had to do, or even wanted to do, but as a necessary step in stopping myself from letting something get so bad in the future. OK, I’ve been busy, so busy that I have rarely posted on this blog, but that excuse apart I should have really been keeping a close eye on my outbound links.

Like a victorian mother hooked on gin I fleetingly gave a second glance to my nearest and dearest – this blog – all the while the non-attention was having an adverse effect against my own rankings. My shame, apart from not posting as often, was to neglect an seo rule 101 : Keep an Eye On your Outbound Links!
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An interesting article appeared in The Telegraph newspaper, a few days ago, about why having too much choice can leave us bewildered and depressed. The article relates to research carried out at Stanford University and can be used broadly across every instance we meet in our day-to-day lives and that includes using search engines.

To quote a piece from the aforementioned article..

People can become paralysed by too much variety and wracked with uncertainty and regret about whether they have made the right decision.

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After taken a week and a bit break from blogging, social networking etc.. I thought it was time to jump back on the bandwagon and get things moving again. Before I started getting into the grind, I had a wee peak at Google Webmaster Tools where I noticed a number of links coming from a site called Shownar.

After a little bit of investigating it turns out that Shownar is the BBC’s experimental prototype to track buzz online about its shows.
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When you consider those that work and are actively social online, just how much information about ourselves do we really reveal?

Think back to the recent Project Gaydar scandal, where two MIT students constructed a program that could tell, with striking accuracy, if a person was gay by analysing their friends list on Facebook.
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I find myself spending more time than ever before watching or reading technology related news stories. I’d like to say it’s hardly susprising really, given the industry I’m involved in. But the truth lies more with the fact that I normally get given the remote for the channel hopper well close to midnight after ‘The Family’ have given up on the day and saunter off to lullaby mountain.
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Twitter can be an effective tool for promoting your business online. As with anything in life – you only get what you put into it. So, with that in mind, always remember that Twitter is no golden egg but with a bit of effort on your part it could turn into the goose that lays the golden egg for you.

Here is a list of top twitter tips that I have used and advised various businesses to start using to help them getter a better realisation on how Twitter can be, if used correctly, a powerful marketing tool for their business.
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Make no bones about it, after reading Jennifer Osborne’s excellent post about ‘So, You want a Career in SEO‘ and reading the poor woman’s frustration in trying to find a suitable applicant for a SEO/Online Marketing position within their company have I ever wanted to post about a subject of considering a career path in SEO.
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