Archive for April, 2007

Web 2.0 Still under construction

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Thursday, April 26th 2007   
Topics: What I learned today    
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I haven’t seen one of these in use since about 1999, so this made me laugh heartily…

From po-ru.com where there is a serious point to it.

Google dictates how we should link

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Saturday, April 21st 2007   
Topics: SEO    
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The last few days have seen some ripples caused by Matt Cutts blog inviting people to report paid for links.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/
Google’s objection to paid links is that people can simply buy their way onto well regarded sites, and influence Google to think that these links are a valid endorsement of the target site.
Matt posts elsewhere about [...]

Outlook 2007 background images

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Friday, April 20th 2007   
Topics: Email Marketing, What I learned today    
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This turned up in my inbox today and shows a great example of how Outlook 2007 has taken a step backwards in the ability to match browser standards in email.
The lovely little e-voucher image that worked fine in 2003 now doesn’t appear at all. I somewhat resent the fact that I’ve had to get [...]

Time to regulate competition sites?

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Wednesday, April 18th 2007   
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I’ve just heard of yet another ITV competition debacle, 10,000 validĀ entries weer ignore so the show could pull the winners name in time to broadcast on the show.
This is becoming a complete farce and the consumer’s confidence in UK competitions is already startingĀ to hurt response rates.
I’ve run competitions in other European [...]