Google has recently put out an update to their ranking algorith called Penguin. Here is a post from www.webpronews.com to tell you all about it. If you are interested in your website rankings and spend money on search engine optimisation, then this is a must read.
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on May 17, 2012 at 12:00AM in Geek Speak , Outraged , Business
Gee I love technology and the ways people use it sometimes.
Most of you will know of or at least will have used a CAPTCHA. That's those funny messed up words that you have to decipher on the bottom of a web form and type in what the letters are. If you get it right, you pass and your action is accepted and if you don't they tell…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on December 12, 2011 at 12:00AM in Geek Speak , Business
Today, Apple announced the iPhone 5 - doh - I mean the 4S. We were all so hoping for the big 5 to come out, it was a little disappointing really. That said, the trigger to change the major version number on the phone has traditionally been a physical change in the look of the device - and…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on October 05, 2011 at 12:00AM in Chit Chat , Geek Speak , Business
For about - ooh - forever, people that have things to sell have been trying to work out better ways to convince the punters that they really REALLY want the things they have ot sell.
In the past, it's been all about studying the market demographic, understanding your customer and then making ads that will appeal and sticking them up where they will be seen by the right…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on May 18, 2011 at 12:00AM in Geek Speak , Business
YouTube has added a new ‘As Seen On’ link that will reward websites that send traffic to YouTube. When a website embeds a video on one of their pages and that sends a high enough amount of traffic to YouTube, the site will get a little recognition and maybe a little traffic as well.
The new backlink…
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on April 19, 2011 at 04:13PM in Geek Speak , Business
Social Media Movers and Losers
Below is a study of social media trends from Ignite Social Media showing some interesting demographics for social media platforms as well as those that are on the upswing and those that are coming down.
Posted by Andrew Thornberry on April 14, 2011 at 08:36AM in Geek Speak , Business
