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Commenting on blogs can be a good way to get traffic and backlinks to your site. This blog post concentrates on commenting specifically for backlinks, and how to increase your chances of getting your comments approved.

Why comment on blogs?

There are advantages and disadvantages to every link building method, but blog comments have some pretty strong elements in their favour:

• They are a natural way to build links
• They provide benefits to both the site owner (interaction) and the commenter (backlink)
• They are a good way to get ‘deep links’ from sites (links which aren’t the index page)
• They often increase in value over time
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:03

Opening rate stat and newsletter campaigns

Written by Administrator

Despite the rise of social media, email marketing is still key to many websites’ relational and sales strategies. As with anything to do with digital marketing, there are numerous metrics and acronyms associated with email marketing, but some of which have too much weight placed on them at the expense of others.

Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:37

Six great social media plugins for WordPress

Written by Administrator
Social media: love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. During the past few years, social media -- along with Facebook and Twitter -- have grown by leaps and bounds in popularity. If you have a personal or professional blog, you are already part of the social media universe. A great way to increase the popularity of your blog is by using other forms of social media to promote it. Wordpress has many plugins to help you with this endeavor.

The number of social media services is constantly changing, and so are the number of plugins that deal with social media. This article highlights six very useful social plugins for the Wordpress platform.

Web Hosting Scotland offers great WordPress web hosting. It is 'one-click' installable via the Extend control panel.
Many businesses, irrelevant of sector, face the same problem that in certain seasons and economic times, business can be slow. More importantly this brings around a cash flow problem which can handicap small to medium size businesses where having a steady cash flow is essential. Everyone knows that in business there is always some sort of a risk element and many businesses shy away from vital decision making because they believe the risk to be too high. The risk in question is investing time and money into marketing a business when business is slow.

Many business owners, especially in the desperate economic situation at the moment, invest all their time and efforts into work that they already have to bring in the money that it secures. This is a false economy, of course one must finish the work agreed however to keep ticking over for the years to come, one needs to invest time and money into future work.
Most start-up businesses suffer from the same problem which is “how do I market myself effectively online ?” This problem arises for start ups with and without financial backing, and can be just as disruptive for both if not achieved.  The key to effective online marketing is the idea that you don’t need a marketing degree to be successful, you just need to have a good business plan and be a little savvy in the following departments; Online Advertising and Websites.

Having a good business plan is very important to the success of the business, not only because it helps you gain funding but also because it gives you and your business direction. You can format your visions and your market very effectively by having the information on paper. You can also make projections which can be kept as reference to your success in the future. Speak to you local Business Gateway or equivalent for advice on business plan writing.
Wednesday, 20 October 2010 09:24

dotSCOT Top Level Domain Name campaign for Scotland

Written by WHS
There is a group who are campaigning for Scotland to get its own Top Level Domain name. Here is a paragraph from their website:

"dotSCOT (SC347721), i is a not-for-profit company that campaigns for the creation a new community generic top level internet domain of ‘.scot’ to represent an online identity for the worldwide family of Scots.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) proposes to expand the number of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and will invite applications once the consultation period is completed.

dotSCOT has been campaigning since 2005 to achieve its aim and has secured support for the bid from Scots around the world. dotSCOT has worked closely with the Scottish Government to develop the bid."

FROM http://www.dot-scot.org/

Join their facebook page HERE


Support this campaign!


Saturday, 09 October 2010 10:35

What is Web Hosting

Written by WHS
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Webhosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.
Saturday, 09 October 2010 10:33

Planning your website

Written by WHS

Before creating and uploading a website, it is important to take the time to plan exactly what is needed in the website. Thoroughly considering the audience or target market, as well as defining the purpose and deciding what content will be developed are extremely important. Media-Slave has years of experience in web design and can guide you through this process. We use the processes and headings ourselves to run your project. We also make this information available to you as the project and tasks progresses. The complete project can be tracked with notes, files and timelines online at any time. We make sure that our web design and web hosting clients know exactly how their project is progressing.

The steps outlined below are very similar to the planning stages for branding, graphic design, advertising or any communications project. We implement and consult on the planning stages as much as we do on the final product. This is very important especially in the Inverlcyde and Greenock area where people are not yet very savvy with how to use their website properly.

Saturday, 09 October 2010 10:32

What Google does for you

Written by WHS

If you run a small business you might be surprised how expensive proprietary software can be. Software to do even the most menial of daily tasks like writing letters, sharing calendars and tasks and many more. Google has lead again in addressing this issue.

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