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Venture Skills is a New Media company based in the UK, their blog is a mix of Drupal, Reputation management and Search engine marketing and optimisation. The primary contributor is Tim Nash who is the co-founder of Venture Skills.
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Embrace your potential stop hiding in SEOs shadow
This is a plea to all those who would consider themselves Social Media Optimisers, Linkbaiters and Copywriters and perhaps maybe even those who consider themselves SEOs. You are more then a sibling So...
Spare a thought for the outcasts
I have had my hands full working on a Moodle an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) site this is not the first time I have worked with Moodle but I never had to attempt to optimise a moodl...
Happy Birthday to us!
The Venture Skills blog made it’s first post one year today, the post stamps are incorrect by the way I was fiddling with them when testing the posts but this is the opening lines… This B...
Centralising your social world
Using Send To as a information centre Most of you will be familiar with the Stumbleupon toolbar and in particular with the send to button we have discussed its uses before and when I first reviewed it...
More questions then answers
My attempt at showing a working model for stumbleupon mathematics certainly got (is getting) a lot of attention with several questions being asked I thought I would at least try to answer some of them...
Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
Give it a Sphinn | Or a What follows is my understanding of the stumbleupon algorithm it is based on some pretty extensive testing using several volunteers however it has been incredibly simpli...
Top 5 Stumble spam
It was inevitable that stumble spam was going to happen, but the amount I have recently received is bordering on the ridiculous the reason for my sudden increase I think is two fold I went past my 100...
Organic Stumbling Tip
Have you noticed when all your friends stumble your post it seems like they have little or no effect? Well it appears that Stumbleupon Algorithm treats artificial stumbles differently by artificial I ...
Mini Sites or Large Sites?
We got a question from a concerned reader… I have a question for you is it better to develop 1 large site or several smaller ones? I’m preparing to develop a new ecommerce site with nearl...
Got a question?
Do you have a question, perhaps you been trawling the forums, and your question has gone unanswered, maybe your not sure how to word your question or your afraid you would be laughed at? We want to h...
What do I and the Top Diggers and Stumblers have in common?
If you are serious about social networking (and not just studying it like me!) Then you need friends and do you know what all 100 Top Stumblers and 98/100 Top Diggers have in common? That's right th...
Geo Targeting Ranking Factors
How British is your site? Is it British enough to get into google.co.uk? Regardless of where you come from you will no doubt have a regional Google be it China or Brazil but getting into these variou...
Stumbleupon vs Digg - Page layouts
Like our Previous Stumbleupon vs Digg article this is based on statistics gathered from various sources, including clients, ourselves and friends and just about any one we could beg. However unlike ou...
Less then 2 weeks to go till All About Asking
I'm getting a little bit excited, less then 2 weeks to go till myself and David Castle open All about Asking a two day SEO residential course here in the UK in Nottingham. We have announced details of...
DIY Reputation management tools - Part1
Whether your an individual a company or a marketing/SEO company reputation management will become part of your business and business strategy, knowing what's being said about you and your clients is n...