Policing web advertising
Advertising on the internet is you would have thought a serious business, but with revenues for the year 2007, the figure was around $36 billion which is a lot of money, but still only around eight per cent of the annual advertising spend across the globe, so there is much scope for improvement or is [...]
January 11, 2008Some great web apps
If we listen to the news, then we would think that the internet is made up of just a few popular websites, who have attracted attention from the bigger companies who have been liberal with their cash when buying a stake in these popular sites.
But this is not a true picture of the internet today, [...]
A faster XP on its way
Service pack three for Windows XP will be coming out sometime in the first quarter of 2008, and the good news is that according to Devil Mountain Software, this will increase performance on average by around ten per cent, which is fantastic.
This statement will come to XP users as a bit of a surprise, especially [...]
Google still number one for webmasters
Despite all of the ups and downs with Google, the most famous search engine in the world is still the number one choice for webmasters; they build, and market their websites with Google in mind, while disregarding the rest of the search engines.
The simple question to ask is why? And the answer is as equally [...]
Microsoft enter porn market
As strange as it may seem there are rumours that Microsoft is planning an X Rated affiliate programme this will go under the name of either “Porn Bucks” or “M$ Smut Cash” but we can take those titles as being in development.
It’s a wonder who will be interested in this business model or is it? [...]
What is great content?
There is a path to follow that will make your website show up in a great place on the search engines results for your desired keywords etc, but in order to get there, it is necessary to make the site conform to certain parameters in order to tick all of the search engine boxes, but [...]
November 9, 2007Traffic from search engines
The very first thing that needs to be done is submit your site to the search engines. Sure you can wait for the site to be spidered, but why wait, time is money and you are in business. You can add you site to any search engine that you want, but make sure that it [...]
November 5, 2007IE8 coming soon
At a recent web developer conference, the Mix07 which took place in Las Vegas, there was a little mention that Microsoft were intending to bring out IE 8 in under two years from when the IE 7 seven came out. IE 7 was released last October so it is over a year now and therefore [...]
September 11, 2007Want to try out Microsoft’s new toys?
To compete with Google’s Webmaster Central we reported a while back that Microsoft intended to do something similar, well Microsoft Webmaster Portal is now going into the beta test mode and they are offering an opportunity to webmasters who would like to be beta testers.
Microsoft Webmaster Portal will initially be offering, spider, submission and site [...]