Some of the best ways to find links is to find out what top competitors are doing. Yahoo Site Explorer is a fantastic tool to do this, as it is the own search engine that gives accurate backlink data. From using this tool, I've managed to find a few places online that I wouldn't have thought about t...

As a result of setting up this blog, I've noticed that my trust within the engines has been affected. Although my main domain has been ok, there is without doubt an instant "starting from zero trust" happening with subdomains. Incidently this subdomain also points to an alternative IP address.  I ...

Many people wonder how email as a communication medium has not died under the barrage of spam. Granted the spam wars are not a thing of the past as predicted by Bill Gates just yet. As spam detection ges more widespread, the way that spam reaches us steps up a gear. We have seen over the past three ...

The WWW is filled with a plethora of blogs. But what does your blog design say about your personality? You use the Kubrick theme. You love the simple things in life. You've decided that the function of your blog far outweighs the need to decorate it with pretty pretty's. An out of the box kinda ...

I thought I'd throw a curveball at the blogosphere. Just to see what would happen. I run Linux, infact I've just finished installing the latest version of Linux Mint - Daryna on this machine. The blog post I put out there was designed for traffic, and it worked. I posted it to Digg, (note in the Li...

I'm a geek. I've tinkered with binary since I was knee high to a grasshopper. So why do I think Linux will never become part of society like Windows? Well - it's not simple. It never has been. I even bought a copy of Mandrake Linux a few years ago, manuals and all. This was destined to be the nex...

I'm a dotnet guy through and through, I like it, I'm pro Microsoft. I run an XP desktop at home and work, its great. But one thing about Microsoft is rubbish - the greed factor. I may be pro MS but I also like a bargain. If you are running a successful blog, changes are you are on Wordpress, I've be...

My advice? If you are in the IT industry for the money - excuse the pun- you're in the wrong game. Don't get me wrong - I love what I do day in day out, and I wouldn't be able to look at a computer screen everyday otherwise. I'm not in it for the money - I just enjoy programming. But - It's going t...

1) Double Opt - in your list The bounce rate with double optins is usually lower compared to those were you have the email address not confirmed. Make sure your email marketing software implements this - otherwise you may find that your list gets filled with users who have made a typo in their emai...

I've been working on a project at work recently, and having finished it (or so I thought) it was handed over to someone else to test. Its amazing just how much effort you really need to put into testing a web application thoroughly. A scary amount of bugs and test cases can creep in - more so than a...