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Thoughts on Prince and SEO

Prince (formerly known as The Love Symbol, Symbol and before that, well …., Prince) would have faced an interesting Search Engine Optimization (SEO) dilema. Prince Rogers Nelson performed as Prince until 1991 when he had a dispute with his record label. He then changed his name to a symbol and became known as ‘The Love Symbol’ and [...]

My First PC and Internet

Back in about 1994 my sister and I were lucky enough to own a state of the art IBM PC (for those too young to remember, IBM used to make PCs and then sold this side of their Business to Lenovo). This hardcore PC had a massive 64MB RAM with an Intel 486 DX4/100 processor. [...]

10 Best WordPress Plugins

Most WordPress consultants’ use the same Plugins on multiple Sites. Users of WordPress are spoilt for choice when it comes to functionality and there are often many Plugins that provide similar functionality. For example the Shopp and WP e-Commerce Plugins offer similar shopping cart capabilities; usually however WordPress Website designers will implement one over the [...]

5 Tools and Ways to Improve Page Load Speed

Webpage load speed is becoming more important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes. Google (and other Search Engines?) use the time it takes for a Website page to load as part of its ranking algorithm; faster is better! Fortunately there are some great free tools and methods that help to make your Website faster. Here [...]