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WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 has been released

By Jordan Hall 7th April 2010


WordPress, the super popular open-source content management and blogging software has recently gone into beta. Version 3 of WordPress looks to bring many new features to the system including a revamped administration system and the ability to deploy a network of WordPress powered blogs simultaneously on the same domain in either seperate directories or subdomains. WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 also comes with a new default blog them called Twenty Ten whi...

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April Fools’ Day Jokes across the Internet

By Jordan Hall 1st April 2010


Firstly, happy April Fools' day to you! There have been a crazy amount of April Fools' jokes flying across the Internet today. Here are a few of the best from some of the biggest names. Google Animal Translate Google have supposedly released an ever so sneaky version of Google Translate that can translate animal noises in to English! This is a mobile application, suprisingly for the Android platform and is (not) available in the Android App Stor...

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Web Visibility – and how to increase it

By Jordan Hall 30th March 2010


Web visibility is of vital importance to any web business, be it e-commerce or otherwise. The visibility of your website is one of the key focuses of search engine optimisation.SEO will increase your web visibility through by improving the rankings of your websites in search engine results pages (or 'SERPs'). SERPs are the pages you land on, as an Internet user, when you enter search terms into an online search engine. They present a list of we...

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Google is ‘99% certain’ that they will shut down Google China

By Jordan Hall 18th March 2010


Google is highly likely to be shutting down Google Search in China, after discussions with Chinese authorities regarding censorship laws appear to have reached an impasse. Last Friday, the Chinese government challenged Google directly, stating that it refused to compromise its censorship laws to prevent Google from leaving China. Google's removal of censorship occurred after a number of 'cyber-attacks' has occurred to Google's systems from an ...

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New BBC Web Design

By Jordan Hall 12th March 2010


I previously posted about Google's new web design, and now the BBC website is undergoing a beta web design. Take a look at the new BBC web design in the screenshot below. Click the image above to view an enlarged screenshot. Alternatively, you can take a look at the beta BBC directly at http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ The new BBC homepage design is even heavier in JavaScript and AJAX functionality allowing for some extremely dynamic customisation of the ...

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Google’s New Web Design

By Jordan Hall 8th March 2010


Google has recently released quite a tweak to its google.com web design to a select few users. Below are a couple of screenshots of the new web design from Google. Clicking the screen shots below will show the new web design, which features more squared off search button, a highlighted sidebar on search results and a change in default link colour to a significantly lighter shade of blue. This also appears to be a slight re-brand of the Googl...

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What is the ideal Keyword Density for SEO purposes?

By Jordan Hall 1st March 2010


About Keyword Density In the context of search engine optimisation, keyword density refers to amount of times a certain keyword or phrase appears in web page content relative to the total number of words present within the content being analysed. The keyword density is usually shown as a percentage indicating the number of times the keyword or phrase, in comparison to the total number of words, but can also be expressed as a ratio of the same dat...

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Tips

By Jordan Hall 22nd February 2010


The most important search engine optimisation tips can be split up into three main categories. There are content, links and code optimisation. Ensuring your website is well adapted to these three main categories can significantly help with your website's rankings in search engine results. Content - 'Content is king' - ensuring your content has regular, up-to-date and unique quality content is vital for high search engine rankings. Links - Link...

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Social Networking and Your Website

By Jordan Hall 16th February 2010


While promoting your website via search engine optimisation techniques and Internet advertising campaigns, it is important not to forget the power of the social web for website promotion. The social web consists of blogs (or 'web logs'), social networking, social bookmarking websites and micro-blogging services. So, what are all of these social web elements? Let me explain. Blog - A blog, also called a 'web log' is a series of articles called ...

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SEO Strategies Used to Fight Terrorism

By Jordan Hall 15th February 2010


Islam is getting a little help from Britain's Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism, which says it plans to train government-approved groups to "flood the Internet" with "positive" interpretations of that religion in an online fight against radicalization. The OSCT plans to coach moderate Islamic groups on how to manipulate the Google rankings of their Web sites in order to boost the online profile of moderate voices in the Muslim community, ...

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Valentine’s Day Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Tips

By Jordan Hall 12th February 2010


So, what is your business going to be doing this Valentine's day? With all hope, business will be booming as you stock many relevant red and pink Valentine's day gifts. The problem is, in e-commerce, it is fine to stock plenty of unique and holiday specific gifts, but if you're not getting any hits to your website, you'll be low on leads and even lower on conversions. You need to get seasonal visitors to your e-commerce website, and that means ...

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Valentine’s Day shopping heading online this year

By Jordan Hall 11th February 2010


Valentine's Day is one of 2010's first large shopping day and should hopefully be a great boom for online e-commerce websites trying to promote their Valentine's Day gift products. Lovers will, as always, be celebrating their love and buying one another romantic gifts from a variety of places, hoping to once again win another part of their significant other's heart. In turns out that, according to a research company who has performed several ...

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