Once again we have been asked the question: ”Every now and again I get emails asking us to link our website to others as per below. I believe you said it wasnt a bad idea as it raises your profile on the internet. Is there a downside to doing link exchanges that you know about?”

Increasingly our clients are receiving emails asking if they would mind publishing a few “articles” or pages on their web site on behalf of a third party. The email usually starts:

Christmas has come round yet again, and seems to arrive quicker and quicker every year!

I recently got into a fairly lengthy discussion with our programmers on the subject of “Friendly URLs”. These are URLs that look like www.mysite.com/category/my-post-title-here rather than ones that look like www.mysite.com/cms/content.asp?id=uieyyyu9038963hk. Sometimes these are called “static & dynamic” or “clean & dirty” URLs instead.

When you were seventeen and you bought your first car (a brown Mini in my case) it probably cost a few hundred quid and was basically all you could afford. All the really classic cars were way out of of your league, trouble is that 5, 10, 20 years down the line all those classics cost even more now than they did then! Thankfully, the same is NOT true of computers.

Next Wednesday sees the Microsoft Imagine ’09 conference on London’s south bank, where the brightest and the best will gather to thrash out our digital future!

For those of you that have tried or who are planning to install windows 7 (way better than Vista btw), you may run into a small problem with getting messenger working. We found that on all the Windows 7 boxes we have set up that MS messenger resolutely refuses to connect.

First thing to realise is that “page rank” (i.e. your page’s ranking in the SERPS) is NOT PageRank!

Google Analytics IQ (or Individual Qualification) is awarded in recognition of graduating from the Google Analytics course. Which is an online course in web analytics techniques and Google Analytics implementation, administration, and analysis tools.

In early August we were approached by the family Corporal Lee Scott who died on the 10th July in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Lee, a tank commander in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, was killed in action on the same day as seven other British service personnel – the largest loss of life in Afghanistan in any 24hrs. They asked us to put together proposals for a site for a new charity they were setting up – Afghan Heroes.