Archive for February, 2009

How to rank No.1 on Google with no links or content!

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 26/02/2009
How to rank No.1 on Google with no links or content!

A search for ‘legal document shop’ on Google brings back an unexpected result at the top spot on google.co.uk. At first it looks pretty solid, after all the domain is legaldocumentshop.co.uk. However once you click through to the site it gets a bit confusing. Why I am confused… -There is no content other than ‘Coming [...]

Sticking up for Internet Explorer

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 26/02/2009
Sticking up for Internet Explorer

  In the same vain as when Google launched its web browser ‘Chrome’, the launch of Safari 4 has prompted a new round of IE bashing and predictions of its imminent death;  “Microsoft is losing market share in the browser wars, it is unsafe, it is too slow…” In any other industry, owning upwards 70% [...]

The diminishing returns on your AdWords changes

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 24/02/2009
The diminishing returns on your AdWords changes

Following on from our previous blog post about how to structure a AdWords account, if you have used any of those tips hopefully you will be seeing an increase in click through rate and your keyword’s quality score as well as easier and clearer reporting. You may have found that as your account matures and [...]

How important is UK support to your customers?

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 20/02/2009
How important is UK support to your customers?

With more and more hosting companies outsourcing their development and support teams to outside the UK, setting up offices in countries such as Romania and the Philippines, the long term impact on their business will be detrimental. The initial cost savings will inevitably be outweighed by a fall in customer satisfaction and service reputation within [...]

Prototype online HTML editor

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 20/02/2009
Prototype online HTML editor

A quick post to let you know about the new project being developed by the team at Mozilla (the people behind the Firefox browser) and the prospects are quite exciting.  Called Bespin it is essentially an online HTML editor. Living in ‘The cloud‘ it is currently still only a prototype at version 0.1.1 but it [...]

Scripts update…update!

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 18/02/2009
Scripts update…update!

It’s that time of the month again where a collection of the dozens of free scripts we give to all our customers (and resellers to pass onto their customers) are taken down from the shelf and given a good shine to upgrade them to the latest versions. The following scripts have all been updated… dotProject: [...]

Think local… act local

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 17/02/2009
Think local… act local

The big point I want to get across with this post is to not fall in to the trap of thinking because you have a website you have to act like a global or even a national service provider. If you want to trade on a national level it will cost a lot of money [...]

Resellers: Run MySQL on your Windows accounts

Posted by: Jonathan
Date posted: 16/02/2009
Resellers: Run MySQL on your Windows accounts

Since launching our Windows reseller hosting accounts the feature we have been asked the most for is to be able to set up MySQL databases within the Windows hosting accounts. We thought it was a good idea as well so for no extra cost you can now add up to two MySQL databases to your [...]

The three attributes of a successful website

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 12/02/2009
The three attributes of a successful website

To begin with it is important to put the term ‘successful’ in to context. If you think your site will be successful when it starts to compete with imdb.com, ebay.com or amazon.co.uk then it could be a few years before you reach that. However, the 3 attributes to achieve the site’s goals remain the same [...]

Free banner creative brief template

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 09/02/2009
Free banner creative brief template

If you have the same eye for design as me (i.e. none at all) there will come a time when you need to use someone else to help with creative work. Because it is unlikely they will let you stand over their shoulder whilst they work the main problem with outsourcing work is the surrender [...]