http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk Living on Purpose... Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:40:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week the developer of Trackur asked their users to suggest new functions and features for the on-line buzz monitoring service and their has been various cool ideas put forward including "Manual Sentiment Tracking" and an "Unseen Filter" to make viewing of many buzz lines easier to manage your on-line ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/10/02/trackur-online-reputation-management-pr/ There's a change in the way more and more people decide to holiday! Its no surprise that the big package holiday firms are playing down the importance of this new trend and keeping quiet whilst they try to evolve themselves as they see their traditional package holidays losing favour with customers ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/09/25/the-new-holiday-trend/ I was teaching the core skills of good Search Engine Optimisation to my new apprentice when I coined a phrase which in my experience perfectly explains the two halves of SEO:   "Half of SEO is understanding what is possible and  how things work...   ....The other half is investigative out maneuvering"     ©2008 Martin Sansone http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/09/25/two-halves-of-seo/ The UK sold off its family silver long ago! Now it seems, they are happy to sell the rug from beneath their feet too .  Talk of globalisation is great when we are all happy with each other.. take Russia over the past 6 years for instance, yet when things get ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/09/25/french-control-of-uk-energy/ I question the panic and sensationalist headlines spread around the world as XL Leisure Group's grasp for short term lending fails and the third largest UK airline stops its services at the drop of a hat. I am sad for the thousands of travellers caught up in the latest ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/09/13/xl-airline-teacup-storm/ FeedBurner certainly has its uses and its a very popular service, however those who use FeedBurner to help publicize their websites certainly don't need to give feedburner half of the link juice credited by top search engines such as Google !! Thankfully FeedBurner understand this and have included a setting ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/09/13/stop-sharing-link-juice-with-feedburner/ Gordon Brown's attempt at saving his and Darlings career with their latest house rescue plan to stimulate/save the housing industry disaster is irresponsible. There's no surprise that they are panicking! The UK is now a population of property owners thanks to Margaret Thatcher's policies of home ownership. The ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/09/02/browns-house-rescue-cash-blunder/ As Microsoft roles out the new Internet Explorer 8 with its InPrivate button, the advertising world holds it breath in fear! Why? The button clearly marked in the browser, when clicked, allows the web surfer to visit websites without the advertising tracking cookies catching any browser behaviour. ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/08/28/ie8-inprivate-mode-damages-click-advertising/ I've installed the lovely CommentLuv wordpress plugin by FIDDYP today so anybody commenting in my blogs gets an instant link back to their own blog by displaying your last blog post !! Nothing like sharing the Luv around and adding a little SEO as we go... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/08/27/commentluv-seo-blog-post-linking/ Today I came across a post on the subject of the Chinese using digital CGI to trick television viewers of the Beijing Olympics 2008 into thinking the giant footprints created by fireworks in the Beijing sky were real !!! I personally find this remarkable and quite funny not only ... http://thedon.200blogs.co.uk/2008/08/27/beijing-olympic-games-cgi-fireworks-china/