With Pay Per Click advertising dominated by the likes of Google and Yahoo, are the small (aka second tier) PPC networks worth using?
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Small PPC search engines
A decade of CSS
This important milestone nearly slipped by me. December the 19th heralded a decade of CSS - Cascading Style Sheets. If you don’t use CSS at all on your web site; you’re missing out on a very useful technology that can save you a great deal of time in site development and maintenance.
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Alexa ranking envy
Alexa rankings are used by many webmasters and site owners to gauge the performance of their sites in comparison to others. Alexa data is also often used as a reference when buying and selling sites.
It’s certainly a handy service, but the ranking data shouldn’t be relied on too heavily, and here’s why.
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Asia’s internet woes
If you’ve noticed a dropoff in visitors to your web site from some from Asian countries in the last couple of days; there’s more to it than just the time of the year.
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Jimmy Wales wants YOU!
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is looking for people to help continue the development of a user-driven wiki-type search engine to rival industry heavyweights such as Google and Yahoo.
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And so this is Xmas..again
Just some thoughts on Christmas 2006. As in previous years; this year I have successfully dodged the majority of the hype surrounding this most screwed up of all days in the Western calendar. I personally don’t celebrate the day for many reasons.
My feelings and approach to Xmas is rather different to most involved in marketing. I won’t mince words here, so you might want to leave reading this until after the day has passed. Far be it from me to rain on anyone’s parade ;).
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Global online population statistics
As another year rapdily draws to close, I thought I’d take a look at various current statistics related to the current global Internet population.
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All rights reserved?
“All rights reserved” is a chunk of text you’ll see on many web pages as part of a copyright statement.
Perhaps you use the term yourself on your site. So where did the phrase originate; what does it mean and is it really necessary?
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Email marketing low response days
Ever wondered what dates (rather than days of the week) each year typically bring a poor response for most types of business to business email marketing?
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Duplicate content - Google speaks
How search engines view, discern and handle duplicate content is a concern for many webmasters and site owners. Yesterday, Google sought to somewhat address the issue and clarify the situation regarding the do’s and dont’s of duplicate content.
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