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Loving Twe2
You may remember my recent post about the Twe2 service powered by Wadja which offers free Twitter SMS for @reply and DMs. I have been using the service for a couple of weeks, and I am totally hooked! I love getting a real-time text message every single time someone DMs me, and it’s dead easy [...]
SEO 101 – URL Structure
One of the most hotly debated topics in the search industry is the importance of a Web page’s URL structure, in other words, the web address for ranking purposes. Some SEO experts feel placing keywords in the URL is vitally important; a web page simply won’t rank well without keywords in the URL. On the [...]
Share the Skittles love!
I am loving Skittles for doing this on a Monday morning – it really did brighten up my day! Very brave of you guys! Enjoy the SEO love from the rest of the blogosphere! I heart Skittles for reminding me of my childhood and also changing their homepage yay! UPDATE: Following my over-excited blog post [...]
Free Twitter SMS alerts in the UK return thanks to Wadja
Last Friday, a friendly PR dropped me an email to inform me that Wadja.com, the mobile web, media and messaging service, will power Twe2 free Twitter SMS alerts, allowing users to receive @replies and DMs to Twitter users both in the UK and worldwide. Last year free text message updates from Twitter were stopped in [...]
Facebook becomes a democracy
Facebook today asked its users for help in re-writing its terms and conditions, announcing The Facebook Principles, a set of values that will guide the development of the service, and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that governs Facebook’s operations. Users can review, comment and vote on the Principles and the Rights and Responsibilties at Facebook, [...]
I heart Facebook (and Twitter too)
I’ve been really pleased to see all the buzz in the press around Twitter lately (albeit not always positive), and at least my ‘offline’ friends now remotely know what I am talking about when I mention Twitter… well kind of! I am however a little sick and tired of hearing that Twitter is going to [...]
SEO 101 – Page Title Tag, Meta Description and URL
Rule #1: SEO is a crucial element of a successful Social Media Campaign Imagine you’re setting up a blog on behalf of a client, you should not only be able to guide and support them in terms of content, layout, plugins etc but also in terms of SEO to make sure the blog lands the [...]
My social media mistakes
Mack Collier’s Viral Garden is one of the first blogs I read when I started blogging 2.5 years ago and has been my social media instructor over the years! I love social media because it is such a new medium and it gives me the freedom experiment. But when you experiment, you can also make huge mistakes. [...]
We7 Valentine’s playlist… with a twist!
Valentine’s Day – some love it, others hate it (a bit like Marmite…) The folks at We7 recently asked me to put together a Valentine’s playlist, and as I’ll be DJing on Saturday night, I just thought it would be a fab opportunity to compile a few cool R&B/Funky House tracks for my Saturday night [...]
Social Media interview with C.B Whittemore
The lovely C.B Whittemore at Flooring the Consumer is currently running a series of interviews with a number of bloggers entitled Social Media – Bridging New & Old. The series aims to explore what social media is about, strengths & weaknesses, but also how marketers can embrace the social web to communicate with end consumers. [...]
Beginner’s guide to self-hosting your WordPress blog
Welcome to my new home! This is it! I have taken the plunge, and have decided to self-host my blog. WordPress.com has been a wonderful platform over the years but I felt increasingly frustrated by its lack of features. Let me explain… When I started blogging back in 2006, an html platform perfectly met my [...]
