Author: Oliver Jobson
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Bounce rates & New Google Analytics
According to This article written by top analytics blogger Avinash Kaushik it is hard to get a bounce rate below 20%. Well, Mine are often below 10. Queue immense feeling of smugness. No reason to get complacent though; I’m working on new landing pages for pages that I have identified with Google analytics to be…
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Link Building
I’ve been on a mission with Link Building of late, and after the PR of my two websites dropped down to 1 or 2 after our major site upgrade in march, I’ve managed to get UK Cufflinks up to 4! Which was higher than when I started. Hopefully it may go higher still by the…
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Increasing business..
As previously mentioned, my two business areas performed fairly poorly in march and april due to installation of a new e-business system. Part of this was due to the failiure of some 301 redirects which damaged my PR in google (and serps haven’t been too hot either). As an initial remedy I decided to try…
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Driving down costs
May has seen a drive to lower costs, the main target being google adwords. This has been due to the lull in sales that happened in march and april that has affected our profitability. Now that most of our energies are not being spent on fixing bugs with our new e-business system, time can actually…
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CSS Margins – IE & Firefox
If you ever get margins in IE and Firefox being different then you should take a look at this article” by Andy Budd. Its all about the collapsing margins apparently! The story goes that two elements that have margins will see the margin on the second element collapse if they are touching. I’ve been having…
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Bug Jam 21: 20-22 July 2007
Its only a couple of months away now and i’m kinda excited already! We go every year with a huge group of us. For those not in the know, click here Last year we took along with us a 6 tonne truck, a stage, a living room suite, a piano, generator, 2kw sound system, a fridge freezer,…
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N73 Fixed (kinda..)
email is no longer sporadic on my N73! (which means i can post via mobile email!). I upgraded to firmware 3.0704.1.0.1 for orange phones via Nokia Updater and then found the proper settings for using 3G, which I was never given by Orange despite several calls to their 3rd level support line…! Settings for using…
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Web design
Homepages now contain rss feed snippets from all blogs. Courtesy of javascript from here.
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Tech stuff…
I’ll be shifting all my random posts about gadgets, computers, web design and other stuff on to this blog. These are almost all put up as a place to keep links for useful bits and bobs as a personal reference tool – I’m guessing most people won’t appreciate them popping up on facebook and other…