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Feb 12th, 2009 by Tim Skipper
I was amused this morning reading Funny peculiar, an article from Lee Oliver on The Weekly Fix.
I have the BBCs Million Dollar Traders on Sky+ which I’ve yet to watch. I’m looking forward to it even more now.
Feb 10th, 2009 by Tim Skipper
Since it’s launch in March 2006, Twitter has taken the micro blogging world by storm, citing such high profile celebreties as Stephen Fry, Barack Obama, Jonathan Ross and Demi Moore among it’s frequent users.
Twitter is a great networking tool, and I think has great marketing potential too, although in a recent report on TechCrunch it was suggested Twitter would start charging commercial users for the use of it’s service.
To allow developers to further enhance the Twitter experience, an API is available which allows access to the Twitter database, and many Twitter applications have been written. TweetDeck is one of my favourite desktop applications and Tweetie for the Apple iPhone is very good too.
But is there any such thing as the perfect Twitter application? I’d like to know your thoughts. When a sufficient amount of data has been gathered, I’ll write it. Simple!
So let me know what your ideal Twitter application would do.
Feb 10th, 2009 by Tim Skipper
I’ve been an Amazon affiliate (or rather Amazon Associate as they like to call us) for nearly three years and I’ve done no more than “ok” out of it. However one type of link available - context links - have proven to be a massive waste of time.
I’ve earned £0.86p.
It’s not hard to see why; currently my Are Long URLs Bad For SEO? blog entry is showing a context link for the John C. in John C. Dvorak. It pops up a suggestion for Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Collection - Series 1 To 5. Very useful.
So if you’re thinking of becoming an Amazon Associate, I’d steer cleer of the context links.
Feb 10th, 2009 by Tim Skipper
In his PC Magazine article SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble With Search Engine Optimization, John C. Dvorak postulates that long URLs are detrimental to SEO, despite what everyone else seems to be saying.
He conducts an experiment on his own 1.2 million page views per month blog by changing existing URLs to the long version, and sees an immediate drop to 900,000 page views. Dvorak sites this as proof that it doesn’t work.
I can’t help thinking that the drop is due to the search engines dropping the old URLs and re-indexing the long URLs. This takes time. Maybe if Dvorak reviews his page views in a couple of months he’ll see a different picture.
What do you think?
Feb 8th, 2009 by Tim Skipper
I’ve been going through my collection of in-car videos this afternoon and have uploaded to my YouTube channel a bunch of new videos of me driving my Lotus Elise Sport 190 around various tracks in the UK. I’ve still got a load more to upload yet!
It’s brought back some great memories of 2002.
