Paul Thewlis
Yahoo! Web Analytics
Yahoo! is going head-to-head with Google by releasing a free web analytics package. Yahoo! Web Analytics has just gone into private beta, so it will probably be early next year until it’s open for everyone to sign-up. However, the initial reaction of those who have used it seems positive. Yahoo! have built on the IndexTools system, [...]
Business Blogging On The Up – Part 2
The full Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 report has now been published. The report was released over five days and these are the highlights for days 3-5, from a business blogger’s point of view. I covered the first two days in an earlier post. Blogging is a time consuming activity. This is confirmed by [...]
I’m Big In Canada
Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it was exciting to see that my book, WordPress for Business Bloggers, appeared at #15 in the bestsellers list for the Computers & Internet > Business & Culture category on Amazon.ca: Thanks to all you Canadian business bloggers who bought the book – I hope you’re finding it [...]
Business Blogging On The Up
Technorati has just published its annual report, State of the Blogosphere 2008. As usual, it makes interesting reading, especially for those of us interested in business blogging. The report is being published over five days – here are some of the highlights from the first two. The report shows that Technorati has indexed 133 million [...]
Thank you, Woodfield’s
This post is a little off topic, but I just had to give a very quick mention to a local landscaping supplier, whose service I have been really impressed with. Although they are based in the Midlands, they deliver to most of mainland UK. Having recently moved into a newly-built house, we needed to landscape [...]
Take Your Blog To The Next Level
On his excellent blog, Chris Brogan has published a list of 50 Ways to Take Your Blog to the Next Level. There are some great suggestions, which he has grouped under five headings: Make Your Goal and Target Audience Crystal Clear Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep Make Your Content Top Notch Promoting Your Blog Building [...]
My del.icio.us Bookmarks For 9 September 2008
WordPress For Business Bloggers Promote and grow your WordPress blog with advanced plugins, analytics, advertising, and SEO (tags: wordpress blog blogging business paul thewlis SEO corporate social media)
WordCamp Portland: Register Now
WordPress users in Northwest USA will be pleased to know that WordCamp Portland is now taking registrations. The event will take place September 27th 2008 at Cubespace (622 SE Grand, Portland). The agenda has also been announced; this from the WordCamp Portland blog: “…we’ll kick things off with a couple large-group speakers including Lorelle Van Fossen [...]
AdSense For Feeds Is Live
You can now place Google AdSense ads in your RSS feeds. When you login to your AdSense account, you’ll notice a new ‘AdSense for Feeds’ option under the Setup tab. If you’re already familiar with setting up regular AdSense ads, you won’t have a problem with setting them up for your feeds. You can customise [...]
My del.icio.us Bookmarks For 27 May 2008
VETUSWARE.COM – free abandonware downloads Where software goes to die. (tags: software DOS abandonware old)