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Worst Thought Out Domains

Oct 28, 2010 | No Comments

The benefit of a company names is that you can put spaces between words to make who you are very clear – but in a domain name, all the letters run together, and there’s no way of guaranteeing that visitors ill see www.chosespain.com as “chose spain”, rather than “choses pain” When you’re sending out the [...]

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Using Someone Elses Brand In Your Domain

Oct 21, 2010 | No Comments

You will probably be aware of the saga that is “IHateRyanAir” by now, but wow – the power of the internet in challenging multi-national companies and kicking a** is getting more and more common. Gone are the days when the customers’ voice would be lost amongst a call centre of uncaring, bored, under-paid and under-skilled [...]

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Domain Renewal – don’t forget!

Oct 14, 2010 | No Comments

The address of your website is a pretty key aspect of your business – it should be on adverts, correspondence, business cards, etc; it should be everywhere to maximise the amount of people who know where to find you online. So forgetting to renew the domain, and risk someone else buying it before you can [...]

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Should I Change My Domain?

Oct 8, 2010 | No Comments

Well, my first question is “why are you asking this question”? And depending on the response, my answer would be very different. Has your website been penalised for poor linking, etc? Well, don’t give up without trying to fix it – get rid of the bad stuff, update on the on-page and re-submit. Still not [...]

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What’s in a Name?

Oct 1, 2010 | No Comments

(and to finish the quote….) “That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” You’ll recognise this quote from Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”, which has had many outings since it was first written down in 1597 (413 years!), but is recently most applicable to the often costly purchase of a [...]

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