I am sure you caught the news this week that a European law has been passed that allows individuals to control their own data and ask search engines to remove search engine results about them. It is known as the “Right to Be Forgotten”. When you hear of stories of ex boyfriends and ex-girlfriends uploading … Read more
Whether I like it or not, I need to use PayPal. It is how 95% of affiliate companies pay me. It is also how I am paid by website owners to write for them and how I pay others to blog for me. I know that most of you who are reading this are in … Read more
News has just broke out that freelancing behemoth Freelancer.com has purchased the internet marketing forum Warrior Forum for 3.2 million dollars. The Australian company Freelancer was launched in 2009. In just five years it has become the largest freelancing service online. This is no doubt due to their aggressive acquisition strategy. Over the last few … Read more
I have watched the evolution of Facebook pages closely over the last two years; mainly because I have a dog in the fight. I spent a lot of money on promoting Facebook pages for my websites; spurred on by the promotional nudge of Facebook themselves. Sadly, page reach has decreased significantly over the last two … Read more
The old cliche goes: You only get one chance to make a first impression. Cliches can be said so often that you stop thinking of its meaning when someone uses it. Though getting one chance to make a first impression is something that is particularly true. If you do not grab someone’s attention the first … Read more
In June 2006, Seth Godin created a lot of discussion amongst bloggers when he announced that he was removing comments from his blog. As with all Seth Godin posts, his announcement was straight to the point: Judging from the response to my last post, some of my readers are itching to find a comment field … Read more
It appears that Google is still tweaking its Google+ service. I noticed tonight that in addition to showing your subscriber count, Google now displays the total number of views your Google+ has received. As I write this article, my Google+ profile has 894 subscribers and has received 42,785 views. Total profile views can be disabled … Read more
I logged onto Twitter today and saw a message from Twitter that suggested that I check out Twitter Analytics; a new feature from Twitter that allows you to check the engagement of your tweets and the development of your following. A quick search shows that web analytics were first introduced in September 2011. I imagine … Read more
Like many people, I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. It bores me to tears sometimes and I always feel that people are sharing too much of their lives on it. I know more about other people’s families than I do my own; which illustrates how open some people are with their lives. Yet, despite … Read more
Finding the right hosting company for your website can be a difficult task. You need to find a hosting company that not only matches your budget, but also meets your hosting requirements for storage, speed, uptime and security. Someone who knows a lot about this is Jerry Low. I got to know Jerry last year … Read more