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Google toolbar for chrome browser

Once anyone finds out where to get the google toolbar for chrome browser please let me know.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Technology No Comments

Low value traffic improve Alexa Rankings

I rently read a blog post about Alexa becoming worthless due to the fact its ranking system appears to be getting less accurate.

Personally, I have always liked Alexa, but maybe it’s because I know how to use it better than the people who critisise it do. I know it can be manipulated and is no good for proper tracking, but for keeping an eye on trends, monitoring specific sites and other uses, I found it very useful.

I also noticed the change in tracking recently, but have come up with a different conclusion to most. When using Alexa, I don’t only watch the traffic rankings, I also watch where visitors come from and what the traffic rank is in other countries.

On a lot of sites I monitor I have been noticing that general traffic rankings are dropping, but users from overseas is rising. Specific % rises are coming from previously under developed countries, India being a prime example.

One of my theories for why this is effecting Alexa rankings is the fact that Windows Vista is becoming more and more popular in the UK and is probably not as popular yet in developing countries. (must try and find a breakdown of % number of vista users in each country)

So why would this effect Alexa rankings? Simple really, as I write, the Alexa toolbar still isn’t available to Vista users.

What this means is visitors using older systems are still being tracked, but people with newer systems (using vista) are not.

As people using newer systems are generaly more affluant, site that receive poorer visitors will appear to be doing better in the Alexa rankings.

Comments are closed, but anyone who wants to post a comment email me at tj @ seo64.co.uk and I will add it for you.

Monday, August 11th, 2008 Technology No Comments

Conference Centres Search Engine

After realising just how many conference centres we currently have listed in the database, I decided to create a very simple UK Conference Centres Search Engine.

It currently has over 5,000 UK conference centres listed and over the coming months their details will be updated and new conference centres will be added.

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Technology No Comments

Business Continuity Management BCM

Business continuity management BCM is a process that helps organisations manage risks and ensures continuity of critical functions and effective recovery in the event of unexpected problems.

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Technology No Comments

New bot coming from SAVVIS

One of my sites started getting hid hard a few months ago by a strange bot that appears to read javascript and therefore messes up both my Statcounter stats and my google AdSense stats. After a bit of searching around I discovered it was connected to Kavam.net, Limelight Networks, SearchME and that it was a new spider (Charlotte) from the visual search engine SearchMe

Yesterday I noticed a new visitor in my stats using the same set up, Mozilla 5.0 and Linux, but this time it was coming from a different IP ange 165.193.254.13 which appears to come from SAVVIS (SAVVIS Communications Corporation)

I posted about it on Jill Olkoski blog, and she has written more here, which is a better place to post comments or read more about any updates.

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Technology No Comments

3229 Search

3229 is a new search engine that only searches pages from within the  UK Small Business Directory.

3229.co.uk provides a way for business owners to create poster style web pages completely free of charge, the pages are easy to set up, easily editable, and can be used to help promote the business owners own website.

To find out more visit the How to get listed in 3229 section, set up a listing and see how it works. It’s 100% free and if you don’t like your listing you cansimply delete it and all your information is removed from the system.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 News, Technology No Comments

Top 10 Digital Cameras

Following on from making my page about Top 10 Mobile Phones today I started a site about Digital Cameras and set it up in a similar format.

Digital Cameras

Top 10 Digital Cameras.

Canon Digital Cameras.

Casio Digital Cameras.

Fujifilm Digital Cameras.

Kodak Digital Cameras.

Nikon Digital Cameras.

Olympus Digital Cameras.

Panasonic Digital Cameras.

Pentax Digital Cameras.

Praktica Digital Cameras.

Samsung Digital Cameras.

Sony Digital Cameras.

Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Digital Cameras, Technology No Comments

Top 10 Mobile Phones

I upated my page of Top 10 Mobile Phones again today, and whilst I was doing it I also created pages for the different manufacturers. I’ve only done the 4 main manufacturers so far, when I get a bit more time I will also add LG mobile phones and Blackberry mobile phones.
Samsung Mobile Phones.

Nokia Mobile Phones.

Motorola Mobile Phones.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones.

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Mobile phones, Technology No Comments

Profesional website design - under £300

Proof that you can get Profesional website design for under £300

Found a great site that demonstrates there are still talented website designers out there who don’t charge the earth.

Friday, March 21st, 2008 Technology No Comments

searchme visual search

With visual sarch improving all the time how long will it be until it is in everyday use for searching? searchme are now opening up for beta testing

Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Technology No Comments