When writing content for a website, is it better to do some research first to find search terms that people are actually searching upon, or is it better to just write everything that is in your head in the hope that something you’ve written will stick and become a busy page?
The thing is, being an [...]

I use both Wordpress and Blogger, but I prefer Wordpress by a mile.
It seems that in recent months Blogger does nothing buy hang around 1 out of 3 times I’m trying to publish a post to a blogger blog on one of my own domains. As such there is a lot of time wasted republishing [...]

DaveN, a man who’s blog I really admire has a post on why not to use sitemaps. To be honest, I agree with him. Build an accessible site with good internal links and you won’t need one. Build a site with poor internal linking and rely on a sitemap and Google will see the pages [...]

I run one forum about holidays in Scotland. It is a quiet little forum with just a few active members.
I’ve dealt daily with spam registrations from people wanting a link back to their spammy site, but recently I’ve found a new type of spam registration.
They are all innocent enough looking. The user sets up their [...]

I don’t know if this is happening to anyone else, but in the last two weeks Gmail have been brutal with their spam filtering on my account. They used to get the balance just about right but now I have to spend time going through all the spam every day (around 300 pieces of mail) [...]

I can be a bit crap sometimes at updating software. I tend to figure that if the old one worked, why risk disrupting everything for a new version which might not work as well. Well that philosophy keeps me using old versions of Office and Photoshop, but doesn’t apply to browsers.
Hot on the heels of [...]