So I’ve just heard from Dom Hodgson that my application to speak at Think Visibility 201o has been accepted. I don’t know when the dates and times will be, but I’ll be sure to let you know in due course.
My talk is tentatively (and alliteratively) titled “Use and abuse the news or lose” and will look at how to leverage topical subjects to your advantage for… >> continued | 3 Comments
News sites are content-rich, fast moving and loaded with equity. Getting your site into them is the stuff of dreams in most markets, and without either getting the MD arrested, going bust or hiring some amazing PR company at massive cost it’s almost impossible.
But you can still get in the papers – you just need a little patience to follow a story.
So Slater was doing his best Robocop impression when it hit us: we didn’t know what his prime directives were. Hmm. “Hey! That’s what the internets are for,” quoth I. If you’re actually looking for the answer, it’s at the bottom of the page, but here’s my findings.
I know I misspelt my query and missed out the crucial “prime” factor, but I will be fucked if I’m… >> continued
You might have happened across this story over the last couple of weeks. It highlights a lot of the dangers associated with so-called “blogger outreach” – especially when it’s outsourced to people who clearly don’t understand how it can work when done properly.
The upshot of the story is this. A company claiming to represent the bingo wing (or whatever the terminology is) of gambling firm 888… >> continued | 3 Comments
An insight into someone else's crushingly dull existence
So I blogged about en.grand-pianos.org trying to spam my blog 3 or 4 times every day. Turns out I’m not the only one who’s noticed them trying it. And if you search on Google, it turns out that loads of… >> continued | 1 Comment
Yup. While I was idly looking around to see if I ranked anywhere for tube8.com on the back of some traffic that wended its way here, I noticed the following results cropping up in Google News…. >> continued | 4 Comments
