Earlier today a new reputation management company contacted me to see if I thought you, my readers, would be interested in their service, and I’ve just I’ve read Seth Godin’s blog for the first time this year and he says:

The first thing to do this year
Google yourself.
If you’re a salesperson, your prospects already do.
If you’re [...]

There’s no doubt that the commercialisation of the Internet had a massive impact on business. The Internet enables any business to reach a global audience something never before possible. As such it’s allowed people to grow businesses in what would previously be unreachable niches. It’s also created some incredible business success stories. So here’s what [...]

While I’ve been involved with various internet businesses over the years I’ve never really gotten into the domaining scene, but Scott over at Self Made Minds suggest that it presents a great internet business opportunity for someone with the right vision and drive.
He compares the current main player Sedo to an estate agent, saying:

If all [...]

Most successful Internet business ideas are targeted at a niche market, but finding those niches can be hard, so here’s my top ten tips for finding a niche.

List your hobbies, chances are if you’re into it other people are too.

List your interests there’s sure to be other people with a similar interest.

Read the Sunday papers [...]

The Links
If your site is heavily content-focused then your ranking may well benefit from the portal effect. Some search engines treat sites with a lot of varied outgoing links, as central hubs of information, or portals. These sites are assumed to be more relevant and subsequently their ranking increases.
I would suggest this is only a [...]

The Title
The title of your Website is the ideal place to get your keywords across. It’s important not just for search engines, but also to reach the user once they visit your site. If you use Microsoft Windows you’ll see the title in the top left hand corner of the browser’s window, and also on [...]

This is the first of a three part series on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), it’s by no means a comprehensive guide but if you follow the guide you’ll be getting your website off to a good start.
Keywords
Before you start designing or tweaking your site for search engines it is essential to determine what the keywords [...]

While Alexa traffic rankings are not a perfect way of determining a web sites traffic they are still useful for comparing your site to a site to which you do not have access to the logs. Additionally services such as Text Link Ads, for example, determine the price of ads on your site using your [...]

If you decide that the right business for you is an Internet business the you are going to have to learn about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and by far the biggest and most important Search Engine (SE) is Google. Google uses a patented technology known as PageRank (along with several other factors) to determine the [...]

After the Million Dollar Homepage and all the numerous copycat versions it’s tempting to dismiss anything with the “million dollar” in the title, yet Graham Langdon’s Million Dollar Wiki is actually a new twist on the idea. Instead of offering pixels he is offering a page on a Wiki (a wiki is a site that [...]