Browsing Year 2010

When does a link request become an insult?

By | January 20, 2010 at 8:29 pm | One comment

If you run a website, I am sure you have had the generic emails that are generated by a piece of software used from a template.  You know the ones: Dear Webmaster, I happened upon your website, www.goosh.co.uk, and I was blown away by how informative and interesting it was...

Posted in: Online Marketing

Spotify the silent bandwidth thief?

By | January 18, 2010 at 10:18 pm | No comments

I’m talking from experience here, and I would like to think I am not naive enough to just wander into anything without first checking it out, but I am fairly certain that I have fell foul to my own trust when I installed Spotify. Not only is Spotify a music-lover’s...

Posted in: Technology

Should Google Be Doing More About UK SERPS – Especially When Their Results Recommend ThemAs Google UK Serps continue to be contaminated, should Google be really recommending this?

By | January 17, 2010 at 12:27 pm | One comment

With the ongoing problems of the UK Serps (Search Engine Results Pages) being contaminated with irrelevant and down-right incorrect results, does it not seem odd that Google recommends UK Serps over US Serps? This is despite several problems with colours, American...

Posted in: SEO

3 Things Twitter Could Do About Inactive Accounts

By | January 16, 2010 at 7:56 pm | 2 comments

Following the news that Twitter seem to have added email verification to their signup process it’s about time they sorted out the farce that are inactive accounts. There are literally hundres of thousands of accounts out there registered by people who simply have no intention...

Posted in: Social Media

2010: The year of the re-launch

By | January 15, 2010 at 9:12 pm | No comments

It’s been a few years overdue, but I have decided to re-launch Goosh.co.uk.  About 3 years ago I decided to launch my own, self-named, blog KevStrong.com in an effort to create an online presence for myself alongside my portfolio (I was a Web Designer/Developer/SEO at the...

Posted in: General