I run a holidays in Scotland website. It’s been quite a successful site and gets lots of readers and hopefully helps people with information for their holidays. Aside from the hand edited directory and articles there is a blog and a forum. When Google updated to Big Daddy, the number of pages listed in Google [...]

So you’ve got a website selling your product or service. You’ve got a nice bio, some product pages and maybe a shopping basket bolted on. Your SEO guy is telling you that you need to get inbound links. The problem is that you don’t know anyone else with a website who would link to you [...]

Blogging really has come of age when you get sites displaying blog jobs. Today I came across a site dedicated to letting people know about blog jobs – get paid for writing.
When people are employing other people to blog for them you have yourself an industry.
So what can you expect from a blog job? [...]

Google Calendar has been a bit of a revelation for me. It’s extremely simple to use and well laid out.
Every week they’ve been adding new features, but the current one that interests me is being able to publish your calendar, or integrate it into your website.
For people renting out cottages, or B&B’s or caravans with [...]

I order a lot of stuff online and the experience ranges from the ultra-frustrating (Jenners wedding list shop in Edinburgh) to what I experienced recently which was a sublime online ordering experience. I speak here of www.toolstation.com.
I needed some stuff to work on my kitchen at the weekend and decided to order from toolstation rather [...]

Occasionally I, like the rest of the UK find that I need to get away from work and get off the radar for a few days. Last weekend Clan Christie packed up the car and headed to the Highlands to spend a few days in a tent. It was blissful. No SEO, no internet, no [...]