The Importance of a Properly Designed Website You might not know it, but whether your business is online or off line, your website is one of the most important things that you have in order to be a success. You want to be sure that you have the best website that you can possibly have, and that you are able to maintain it correctly.... More

“I’m writing lots of free content for my website, but still nobody comes. What can I do?” Having launched more than 100 specialist content websites for clients over the last six months, I often get asked this question. My answer is always twofold. Over the long term, which I suggest is 12 to 24 months, good-quality,... More

How to tell your RSS from your elbow! RSS, which stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” allows users to deliver articles, announcements or alerts to readers who subscribe to RSS feeds. The feeds are delivered automatically to an email inbox or a Web browser. RSS also allows people to add links to your content within... More

Gucci Watches Take Over The Watch Industry Since the invention of the quartz watch in the 1970’s, nearly all of the watches on the market are quartz battery powered. Over 90% of all watches manufactured today, including Polar watches, are quartz watches. So why has the watch industry gone quartz and for the most part stopped... More

Get Your Website Launched! There are many elements in a website design project. Elements may include the overall strategy, the site map, site contents, design, coding, search engine optimization (SEO) and additional functionality. With so much to track, it’s easy to let the website design project roll on forever. It’s... More

I wrote a post about my experiences of setting up some new ‘free’ domain names, which are now happily set up at my usual domain name registrar and web hosting company. Next I needed to deal with sending visitors from the old subdomain to the new domain. I loaded up the files via the FTP server to the new domain control... More

Latent Semantic Indexing: What Is It? The introduction of latent semantic indexing by Google meant the end for many ‘junk’ Adsense sites. This article explains why quality unique content is vital for your Adsense success. Duplicate content and template pages are no longer acceptable, and are frequently de-indexed. This... More

I have mentioned the fact that another blog in our niche had been systematically using our blog posts without crediting Kevin the Collie as author. I tracked doen the web designers and web hosts and write to them in accordance with help and advice from Lorelle’s blog. This is the reply I received:‘To Whom It May Concern:Please... More

I have been sidetracked over the past few days after I found out that all out blog posts from Kevin the Collie’s blog over at least five months had been reprinted, without any credit or backlink to Kevin as originator, on a blog from a site called k 9 training .info/blog. The gaps in the name are deliberate as we don’t... More

This is important news for all webmasters, which can save you time and make your life simpler.“Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed to support the Sitemap 0.9 protocol. How can this new standard help you to improve the ranking of your web site in search engines? What are sitemaps and what is the Sitemaps protocol? Sitemaps... More