Some of the posts on this blog have reached the lofty heights of a PR5. Hooray! That seems to have qualified me to get spammed from all corners of the internet, and by other internet marketing companies.

As there is actually very little real conversation happening in the comment areas, but rather people using it to link back to irrelevant materials, all comments will now be moderated.

I make no promises to look at them each week, or each month, and I will only be allowing those through that actually add to the conversation. I don't mind criticise, and love ...<< MORE >>

It would seem that the actual words in a URL play a part in search engine ranking. I have no problem ranking in a search for my own company name and blog name.

It helps if your website is actually about the topic that you are trying to get ranking for, and what better way to show that than to have your keywords in the domain name.

I'm experimenting the importance of this factor at the moment, and have registered a few domains on behalf of a client, setting up mini websites at each.

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I recently discovered another free content management/website building website - www.weebly.com

It is a really clean interface and is easy to setup with some nice templates to work from. You can use a subdomain or can bring your own domain along for free (2 websites). There are also various levels of paid updates that you can use as well.

I tried it out while building some pages for the Northcott Society. Northcott was originall called the NSW Society for Crippled Children. They were concerned that some people might still look for them under their old name, so hopefully ...<< MORE >>

Social media stuff ups have hit the headlines again this week, with reports of more staff being fired from U.S. companies for publishing stupid and compromising pictures of themselves on the web.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that some large firms are hiring local companies to monitor their online reputation.

This is just another great example of how the web is a permanent record, it is not anonymous!

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I was doing some work on my LinkedIn profile this week http://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronthompson and saw a link to Barack Obama's profile, amongst others.



Obama's campaign made brilliant use of social media and online networking tools. But he hasn't stopped there - updating the U.S. people from YouTube on a weekly basis, trying to build a more open democracy and developing new platforms for people to communicat with his government.

Whatever you think about him and the political views he represents, social media is truly a part of what he is about, as opposed to his competitors for the presidency. All of their profiles still list them as candidates!


If the President of the U.S.A. thinks its worthwhile to develop their social media profile, that's good enough for me!

        

How many people want to be number 1 on a search on Google!
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I've been having for for a couple of years with 43 Things - a life list management tool.

They have created a little personality poll recently, here are my results. You should take a look too!