Category: General
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Creating a site map for Google
With more and more people finding sites through search engines it is essential that your site is search engine friendly. One way you can improve your ‘relationship’ with search engines is the creation of a Google sitemap. Google sitemaps help Google to crawl your site, telling it where all your…
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Blogging for business
I recently, through Friends reunited, caught up with a very very old friend. When I knew her she was still a school girl but now is married to a fireman, has three children and also owns her own manufacturing company. So clearly a hugely busy person, so how does she…
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The Cuil new search engine… but how Cuil is it?
I noticed a large number of ‘Tweets‘ from my Twitter feed about a new search engine called ‘Cuil’ which has been created by former employees of Google, and for some a possible threat to Google’s dominance. The Google association has without doubt helped feed the publicity for what otherwise could…
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Getting an identi.ca
I have been a great fan of Twitter for sometime, however lots of copy cat sites keep popping up and today I checked out identi.ca the latest that had come to my attention. Signing up is not as easy as it could be. The sign up form does not include…
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Fake profiles on Facebook, is someone pretending to be you?
One of the greatest compliments is to be copied, however if you are a famous person someone pretending to be you is full of hazards especially if they use your photograph, name, location and age to try and persuade people they are you then write as you saying things you…
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Should I get LinkedIn?
Whilst many business professionals have been getting LinkedIn for many years, the site has over 20 million profiles based in over 150 countries, it is not always been seen as a priority for politicians – which is an opportunity missed. A LinkedIn profile that has been made public will be…
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Guidelines for producing YouTube video
YouTube is an excellent way to quickly and easily get across a message. When creating these you need to take some of the following into consideration. Setting up an account or ‘channel’ is free and is very easy to do. Even if you have video on your own website you…
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Best practice for 404 pages
It’s scary when you are lost. Even worse if someone starts shouting at you for reaching the wrong place. Worse still if there is nothing to help you find where you originally wanted to go. Welcome to the world of good and bad 404 pages. Get it right, you keep…
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Twhirl your Twitter
Twitter is an excellent tool. It is a quick and easy way to let your friends know what you are doing without insisting that they have to visit Facebook to see your current status. Because it is a micro-blog entries take no longer than to send a text message. For…
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The True Face of Facebook Democracy
Following the defeat of Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral Elections in May 2008 I set up a Facebook page called ‘Boris Watch’. The idea of the page was to monitor the new Mayor Boris Johnson and it quickly gained over 3000 members. The noticeboard was extremely busy, with members…
Christopher Wellbelove DL 
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