I've got an opportunity to rebrand Platinax on a kosher business[keyword].co.uk domain name.
It'll cost a little bit, but at present I'm thinking that rebranding as business[keyword].co.uk would offer better development opportunities than as Pl...
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I'm getting a little annoyed at all the VAT I'm paying out - I always thought it'd be Corporation Tax I wouldn't like, but it seems like I'm actually paying out more in VAT.
I have a number of large UK clients I have to charge VAT to - but most...
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European stocks are taking a tumble:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6733379.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6733379.stm]>
Not least due to Morgan Stanley issuing a big warning at the start of the week:
http://www.investmentmarkets...
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Simply a good, well researched, and balanced perspective on Google's attempts to continually imrpove it's algorithm:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/bu...=1&oref=slogin [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03google.html?_...
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Nice post by Jeremy Shoemaker on being fired and firing people:
http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/06/07/...omeone-tfs-14/ [http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/06/07/how-to-fire-someone-tfs-14/]>
Quote:
Always in a firing the person...
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I think when I first started in business in 2004 there were a number of negative economic indicators around, and I was seriously concerned about the threat of recession.
Instead, what's happened is that borrowing and debt have totally financed ...
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Damn - the Google Newsbot doesn't follow redirects.
Had a site accepted into Google News last week, then this week decided to rebrand by using a domain name without the hyphenated form - better for branding, I thought.
Set up the redirects so...
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A test OSCommerce install I have set up shows a major flaw with the software - when paying by Paypal, the order is only inserted into the database if the customer clicks out of Paypal via the Return to Merchant link.
So in a default OSCommerce ...
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Google are making a big change - Google 2.0: Google Universal:
http://searchengineland.com/070516-143312.php [http://searchengineland.com/070516-143312.php]>
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007...algorithm.html [http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2...
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Something I've noticed myself moving towards is the portalisation of sites.
Whereas normally I might have set up a blog, forum, and news on similar subjects on different websites, I've noticed myself trying to concentrate these into portals.
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Touring the conversations around various webmaster and business forums, it's pretty apparent that a lot of people think SEO=snake oil, and that it's mostly a big con.
While there are definitely a lot of bad apples in the cart - sharks will jump...
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A nice post that promises little but delivers lots:
http://www.aojon.com/affiliate-marke...nce-marketing/ [http://www.aojon.com/affiliate-marketing-with-the-power-of-influence-marketing/]>
See if you can figure it out.
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This looks lucrative for anyone involved in media production and distribution - Google are offering Adwords advertisers a select list of providers who can take a video ad from concept and deliver it professionally:
https://adwords.google.com/supp...
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When I set up as a limited company I moved to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for convenience sake - in Scotland some of the English banks (such as HSBC, which I used while as a sole trader) have few branches up here.
But RBS has been a pain i...
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The latest comScore results shows Google's dominance of the US market is slowly but surely increasing over the year:
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007...-up-again.html [http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/05/google-market-share-up-again.htm...
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There's not much discussion on this subject as yet, but Stone Temple recently ran a basic analysis between a few different stats programs:
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/...may-2007.shtml [http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/analytics-report...
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Domainer Rick Swartz makes an interesting post: Failure or Success is up to you [http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2007/04/failure_or_suce.html]>
Quote:
Imagine you are 5 years old and you are on a 20 hour trip to Disney...
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I bought up another forum which apparently had a lot of debt on it - seems there was an agreement to pay posters but 2 previous owners never paid because it shot up to 80k posts in around 5 months...
So I bought it and merged it with a small we...
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A nice post here on trying to determine how much opportunity exists with non-converting visitors:
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2006/...unity-pie.html [http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2006/11/excellent-analytics-tip-8-measure-the-real-conversion-...
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Interesting list here:
http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html [http://adage.com/century/campaigns.html]>
Also an interesting round up of advertising developments to date.
Another reference on the top slogans:
http://speakingfreely.wordpress....
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I've tried multiple times to download my Paypal history in CSV format, but never been able to download anything.
Anyone here had problems at all downloading their Paypal history as a file?
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I have a client via Britecorp who is proving a pain at the moment - we're signed up on a 6 month contract for SEO services, and in 3 months I've taken them from having almost no presence on Google, to Top 5 rankings for an extensive 70+ competiti...
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We've been getting a huge amount of spam posted here - so I'm trailing yet another anti-spam plugin, to at least prevent people posting links.
Hopefully will help reduce the admin workload...
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So I experimented with setting up the Platinax directory on a subdomain...
Got to admit, I'm not convinced that it really offered any value, other than to make it easier to split up a site for DNS purposes.
Anyway, redirecting a subdomain cou...
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