The number of stories you hear about people turning to blogging for a living is always on the up. First there was Jason Calacanis, then Darren Rowse – one of my favourite bloggers at problogger.net and today I was reading about Duncan Riley at Blog Herald going solo. In Duncan’s case it sounds like it [...]

This time of year is one of the times I can get more work done than any other. The phone stops ringing and you can really get your head into planning and sorting out some of the jobs you’ve been wanting to do all year. Last Christmas I had just heard about Google Adsense and [...]

Honestly, I take one of these calls per week.
“Mr Christie, have you considered outsourcing your web design/seo work to India.”
“No, I don’t outsource any work”
“Ah, would you consider it, it’ll make your projects really cheap”
“No, my clients are hiring my SEO skills, based on my record, not yours”
“Ah, OK bye.”
It’s the same every time. Plus [...]

It would appear Google have been sending out Christmas Pressies to their Adsense publishers again this year. I really hope they send me one. I know it’s completely geeky but I want some Google branded stuff on my desk. I wonder if I should send them a clock with my name on it. Perhaps just [...]

Read an article this morning called Filthy Linking Rich by Mike Grehan in which he explores search engines’ reliance on link popularity for determining search results. Comparisons are draw with social networks and others to explain why things are the way they are. It’s slightly pessimistic suggesting that things are the way they are – [...]

This is something that has been praying on my mind recently – is blogging better than using Dreamweaver to set up a website?
There are pro’s and con’s to both I guess:
Dreamweaver:
Easy, rapid development of sites, templates, navigation.
Adding new info requires the content to be added then the relevant links to be added by hand before [...]