Why the heck is it that ISP’s feel the need to dictate to us the ports we should and shouldn’t make use of? I say this having just spent near-on a week of frustration wondering why the BeachyUK server hated me and refused to send my mails! After finally finding some time to sit down […]

I am sure most users of Firefox have had the same problem I have struggled with over the last few days. When you first visit a website where you have to login to you often say don’t save the password. Then after visiting that website on a more frequent basis you decide that it is […]

Do you ever provide feedback to businesses you’ve bought goods or services from online? No? Well you maybe missing out on a backlink or two then. Take a look at some businesses testimonials/feedback pages, and you’ll find that many, services businesses particularly, provide a link to the website of the people providing feedback. So next […]

In the previous post I talked about the importance of backlinks. So here’s my tips for securing for good backlinks for your site: Submit your site to web directories There are a huge number of web directories around. Submitting to the larger directories (like dmoz.org) is easy, but to really get the benefit, you want […]

What is PageRank? Google’s PageRank algorithm was a fundamental part of their search engine ranking system when it was introduced in the late 1990s to calculate the importance of a page on the web. Is it still relevant in 2025? Google has not publicly declare updates to PageRank since 2016, and it is widely believed […]