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Know Your Twitter Limits

Twitter became famous for one single limit: no more than 140 characters per message. However, there other rather interesting limits that Twitter imposes on its users, highlighted by mediabistro.com's infographic below:- ...

15 Twitter Phrases That Have Had Their Day

I find any kind of internet meme/trend annoying, so when http://uk.marketo.com/ compiled a list of Twitter phrases, I was actually quite pleased that I'd not encountered most of them - it's a bit of a bonus when I inadvertently miss such annoyances -...

8 Types of Message to Send Out on Twitter

Twitter is all about ENGAGEMENT, not just number of followers. It's also true that some tweets are more engaging than others, and this post looks at the most popular types of message that will encourage the engagement you're after (via themediaoctop...

10 Years Ago Today...

Ten years ago today (27th July 2014), I launched the shoptemplate.co.uk demo shop. This has now evolved into puresilva.com. Click to enlargeClick to enlarge...

A Daily Dose of Music

Music - I like it, so I built a page that has some music on it! A daily dose of music brings you 3 recommended tracks to listen to plus a random UK top 40 from anywhere between 1960 and last year. I hope you like it and keep coming back to it.How It ...

When You Have to Deal With Google Adword Suspensions

This is one of my first video blogs, so I'm just going to bulletpoint what it's about below - more details in the video below! One of my clients, John Evans of Distinctive Handmade Boxes, received a notice that his Adwords Ads had been suspended, ...

Altruism Is Good for Business

I took a call today from a guy called Peter Brown who runs a drainage company - he had a question about one of the directories I run as he wanted to add his website to it. He mentioned that he ran his own directory (drainagecontractors.org.uk) for t...

Google Adwords Default Settings You May Not Be Aware Of

The purpose of this article is to uncover Google Adwords settings you may not be aware of, as they're buried away in "Advanced" sections. These are default settings that MAY lead to a lot of irrelevant clicks if you're not careful. Your Target Lo...