Archive for June, 2008

WordCamp coming to the UK

An informal gathering of WordPress enthusiasts is being held at Aston University, Birmingham, UK from 19th to 20th July 2008.

Further information can be found here WordCamp UK

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 News No Comments

Plurk

Plurk has gone straight to number 1 in the podline top 10 social networking websites list, mainly due to it’s addictive qualities and ease of use.

To find out more visit Plurk

Friday, June 6th, 2008 News No Comments

Scrap Cars in Bolton

Set up a page today to target the phrase Scrap Cars in Bolton 

With the price of scrap metal at an all time high, it’s one of those niche little phrases that is becoming more and more competitive.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 SEO No Comments

Top 10 Sim Free Mobile Phones

Later this week I will be updating my Top 10 Mobile Phones  and my Top 10 Digital Cameras pages, whilst researching this I thought it’s about time I added a Top 10 Sim Free Mobile Phones section too. I have set the page up ready, all I need to do now is add the content.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Mobile phones No Comments

Mortgage Brokers

Following on from yesterdays post, today I reinstated my Mortgage Brokers page.

 

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 News No Comments

Trampolines

Back in 2004 I used my sim64 website for selling trampolines it ranked in the top 3 at google for numerous phrases related to trampolines; 10ft trampolines, 12ft trampolines, 14ft trampolines, trampoline enclosures, etc. until I pushed things to far and the whole site got dropped.

As a quick experiment, today I reloaded about 15 pages on to the same URL’s they were on previously and over the next couple of days will set just 3 or 4 links to the main pages to see what happens.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 SEO No Comments

The Planet hosting down

A small explosion at The Planet datacenter in Houston has caused big problems.

“From Doug Erwin:
This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.

We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well.

There is no impact in any of our other five data centers.

I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact.”

http://forums.theplanet.com/

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 News No Comments