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Apple Tribute to Steve Jobs

Apple’s homepage today (Thursday 6th October 2011) simply had an image of Steve Jobs with a link through to a clean and uncluttered page – the way he seemed to like the Apple website – with a tribute to Steve Jobs himself – www.apple.com/stevejobs

Bounce Rate and how to improve it

The Bounce Rate has always concerned webmasters but what exactly is the Bounce Rate? According to Google the Bounce Rate is: The percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page). Bounce Rate can be seen as the measurement of visit quality and a high Bounce Rate …

WordPress Tips: Get an RSS feed from a tag

Many people may not be aware that WordPress will output an RSS feed of all posts with a particular tag. This is great if you want to feed a particular page with posts just tagged as ‘WordPress’ for example. Get an WordPress RSS feed from a tag If you have changed your permalink structure using …

Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) tips

If you are currently using Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising then it is worth taking a bit of time out to reflect on your campaign. Here are ten my top tips to get the best out of your PPC campaign. Research your keywords Keywords are the phrases that people search for whilst using Google or …

Douglas Adams and how we think about technology

My good friend @RhianHowells sent me this excellent piece written by Douglas Adams back in 1999 – How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet what really caught my attention is his own views on how we all think about technology. I have always said that a TV is a technology to our …

Difference between bounce rate & exit rate

I have been asked on a number of occasions what the difference is between bounce rate & exit rate, especially now that Google Analytics is so widespread. Indeed many people I have spoken to believe both exit rate and Bounce Rate mean exits from your page / site. Well that is true to a certain …

How to completely remove Firefox on Mac OS X

Uninstalling Firefox on the Mac is not as easy as it is on Windows. As well as removing the Firefox.app file from applications, you need to remove files located in your Users directory as well.  Once you have done this then all settings will be removed inducing bookmarks, history and plugins. Guide to completely removing …

Post of the week – Local search | Company Blogging | WordPress Admin

We have some great sites this week from plugins that improve the WordPress admin area to a nostalgic look at very early versions of Internet Explorer, well I say nostalgic I can remember being very frustrated during most of the late 90′s and early Norties with IE! 13 Excellent Plugins To Enhance The Power Of …