Onlineads

Online advertisers fail to succeed

Most online advertisers are failing to gain anything as a result of their efforts. It has been known for some time that the average click-through rate of the typical display advert on a web page is around 0.2%. Now, a new study shows that Pay Per Click advertising, such as …

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Constructing A Website That Works

By Karen Thomson Before you even consider starting to build your first website, you need to think very carefully about what you are going to include in it. For instance, you should not create a site that promotes numerous unrelated affiliate products. As you can imagine, a potential customer will …

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Twitter will break, not make the General Election

Politicians are hoping that social networks, such as Twitter, could have a positive influence on the outcome of the forthcoming General Election in the UK. However, according to Internet Psychologist Graham Jones the impact is more likely to be negative. Speaking on BBC Radio Five Live last night (1hr 6 …

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Press Association Interview

The UK’s Press Association (a leading news wire service) has just interviewed me about the prospective MP who has been sacked because of comments he made on Twitter.

Concentrate on headlines to boost your traffic

If 7m individuals visited your website each month would you be happy? Maybe; I guess it rather depends on who you are and how many people already visit. For the Daily Telegraph, however, this was seen as too small an audience. That’s a remarkable thought, considering the newspaper itself only …

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Bebo

Bye Bye Bebo…Bebo Bye Bye

If you don’t like the musical suggestion in the headline, here’s an alternative “Another one bites the dust”. Yet again, we’re seeing a major organisation – this time AOL – making a massive mess of things online. And you think they’d know better, considering they started out as an online …

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Pagesandleads

Add extra pages to increase sales

Here’s an expirement you can conduct in your local shopping centre car park tomorrow. Print out 100 sheets of paper with an item you want to sell and your phone number, or the contact details where people can buy it. Then stick one sheet under the windscreen wiper of 100 …

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Aprilfool

EXCLUSIVE: Facebook to create new language

Facebook insiders have revealed exclusively to me that later today they will be announcing a new language which is set to revolutionise the web. At the moment the web is mostly in English, with other sites in Japanese, Chinese, and a multitude of European languages. The real difficulty is that …

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Nigelmorgan

A complete masterclass on Twitter

Nigel Morgan – PR Expert What is the practical use of Twitter in business? Even if you accept it does have a business case, how do you use it? And what if you use it – how do you capitalise on it? These are regular questions business people ask about …

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Thetimes

You can get people to pay for websites

Readers of The Times online are going to have to dig into their piggy banks come June; The Times and The Sunday Times are to start charging for access to their websites. You will need to pay £1 a day or get it discounted to £2 a week. If you …

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