The FT leapt on the social media bandwaggon this week with an “online social network forum for executives in the media and technology industries”.
The forum is the first in what FT hopes will be a series of forums targeting niche industries, although at first it looks little more than your usual forum that has been [...]

Blogs and their ability to syndicate out content are a double-edged sword.
On the one hand it means your blog can be shown on other sites and get to a bigger audience. For example, excerpts from this blog and many others are also shown on Affiliates4U and some other sites, and I get plenty of interested [...]

Here’s a little trick that can help a lot with the SEO of your website by pushing all the important content right into Google’s hungry mouth.
It’s a CSS ‘trick’ which is completely ethical as all it does is rearrange the order of the content that Google sees into a more useful order. It will also [...]

The Shoestring website has had a major overhaul in the last few days with some great new features.
First of all the basics have been dealt with on the homepage - a clearer proposition and easy search functions for the various tours, leading through to product pages with a mass of detail including video and testimonials.
Knowing [...]

Shine Marketing are managing the Shoestring campaign on TradeTracker, and to help get some new affiliates involved in the programme, I’ll be running a series of tutorials on building a simple travel affiliate site, and also running a competition.
For the competition I’ll be giving away the travel website used in the tutorials based on [...]