Sometimes the cure can be a lot worse than the disease. In the case of WikiPedia one of the issues was the amount of spam that was being added. While it was all being removed as quickly as it was added the editors have decided to add the "nofollow" tag to all outbound links. If you would like to see the discussion on their mailing list here it is. Some of the posts are … [Read more...] about WikiPedia Kills SEO
How Not To Run An Adwords Campaign
If you're going to run an advertising campaign using Google Adwords (or anything else) you'd want to ensure that your website is actually online. It's even more important if you're actually advertising hosting.... Spotted this morning on Irish ISP Test: Company Business-class hosting .... Since I can't click on my own ads I typed in the address.. which led me to a page … [Read more...] about How Not To Run An Adwords Campaign
Brian Greene – IIA Guest Blogger
Brian Greene is the IIA guest blogger, which I mentioned before. He's just posted his "plans". It could be very interesting depending on who agrees to submit themselves :) … [Read more...] about Brian Greene – IIA Guest Blogger
WordPress 2.1 Released
Wordpress 2.1 has been released. Some of the new features may be attractive but, as usual, you should check that plugins etc., are compatible before upgrading. A plugin compatibility checklist is available as part of the documentation project. According to the documentation most of the more popular plugins will work fine. So what's new? Autosave - handy if you're writing … [Read more...] about WordPress 2.1 Released
Barcamp Southeast Roundup
I started writing this yesterday evening, but then I got distracted .... Anybody who knows me will happily agree that I am not a morning person - not unless I've had enough caffeine to kill an ox! However yesterday morning I was up at 7 in order to drive down to Waterford for BarCamp Southeast. Since there were a few of the Blacknight team going down we had arranged wakeup … [Read more...] about Barcamp Southeast Roundup