The truth about the Alexa rank updates

on February 9th, 2009

After no updates for weeks, the Alexa ranking has now been updated in the Sparky toolbar, but not on the Alexa website, and only for the main domain, not for secondary pages. Meanwhile, Compete.com picks up the game and pitches itself as a more reliable alternative. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]

Twitter Resources

on January 15th, 2009

I have been trying for a while now to finish writing a beginner’s guide to Twitter; I suppose I will finish it, some day, but I realised it was quickly becoming a list of links to various applications and resources. So in the meanwhile I thought I should just offer those here, as a reference [...]

Using the Follow me on Twitter Badges on WordPress / Blogger

on December 13th, 2008

Since I have uploaded the Follow me on Twitter badges one question I get a lot is “How do I put them on my site/blog?”. So, this is a brief guide to using the Twitter badges – both for using a single badge or rotating a selection of badges. I hope it will make things [...]

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Copywriting for social media

on November 3rd, 2008

Do forgive me this brief rant, I just came out of yet another meeting I tried to explain blogging and mcroblogging to corporate types. Exhausting. For some reason, it seems very difficult for the corporate world to relate to social media. It’s a little like trying to convert a B2B marketer to B2C: whatever they [...]

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One hundred free RSS icons / badges

on November 2nd, 2008

Finally got the time to do these – just some RSS icons in a few different colours and sizes. You can just right-click and save image to your computer. Alternatively there is a link to a zip archive containing all the icons at the bottom of the page. All the images are transparent png files [...]

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Talk like a Pirate Day Banners

on September 14th, 2008

Set of Talk like a Pirate Day banners to use on your sites and blogs on September the 19th.