Posts on my blog have been a little sparse recently, mainly because I have been working hard on the Christmas season’s selling. Its been a really turbulent time in the UK recently - the housing market is shrinking due to a lack of lending from UK banks (despite a 2.5% drop in interest rates over [...]
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The credit crunch is now well and truely here - and that can only be good news for bargain hunters this Christmas. With high street names like Marks & Spencer and Woolworths (allegedly for sale for £1!!!) experiencing downturns, many other high street retailers are now ramping up their online stores. Why? Because online shops [...]
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Just to recap, over the last 4 weeks I have been focusing on uploading several affiliate websites and then starting to SEO their content and submit to Google. With all the sites apart from one (http://santas-warehouse.find-my-best-price.co.uk/) having a sitemap (will explain this one is a minute), pages are being indexed in Google within a couple [...]
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I’ve been designing websites for close to 10 years now and have learned alot in all that time - from clawing my way through website site design using Dreamweaver, to coding them by hand in notepad. I’ve also learned alot in my ‘day job’ about running successful businessess and how to market them.
In many ways, [...]
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Its been a busy weekend - not only did we go live with the first football price comparison site last week and make moves to SEO the content, but on Saturday I started playing with some new affiliate store software that allegedly produces quality sites from the datafeeds of a number of affiliate companies.
Cut a [...]
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The first site is now fully live and tested - I’ve also started to apply some SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques to some of the key landing pages.
I’ve tried alot of different SEO programs and websites and the one program that consistently works for me is iBusiness Promoter (now on version 10). I’ve known about [...]
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Search engine ranking algorithms are more or less complex depending on the search engine in question. Google is, without question, the Daddy of them all. With over 90% of all UK searches going through Google, it makes sense to understand their algorithms best.
So what is a stopword? Put simply, a stopword is a common word [...]
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I always do things back-to-front. Every book that I have ever read on web design has said that the design comes last! For me, its one of the first things I do - that way I can visualise how the page will look and what modules I need to write.
Last night I made a start [...]
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Continuing in our preparation, I have purchase three domains through 123-Reg:
valid-discount-codes.co.uk
find-my-best-price.co.uk
find-lowest-price.co.uk
The first domain will be used purely to display valid discount codes and links to a number of online shops. This site is going to be harder to get establised in the search engines due to limited content so I will have to do [...]
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MySQL (referred to incorrectly as ‘my sequel’) is a relational database management system with in excess of 11 million installations worldwide. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
MySQL is a popular choice for websites and acts as the database component of the LAMP platforms (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). Its popularity for use [...]
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