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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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Social search is all about trust
When StumbleUpon started integrating there results into Googles they effectively changed the way I search. If I’m presented with 10 results I am now more likely to click through to a site with a Stu...
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...
Page not found again! 404 in depth
I was chatting to a friend the other day about his newly created site (it looked really sweet) and I was looking at the CSS (very neat) but misstyped the URL my whole world came down no literally not ...
Stumbling Voyeur the return
Welcome to another edition of the almost seedy Stumbling Voyeur a dirty dark look at the stumbling habits of the rich and famous, but due to legal reasons we couldn’t post so you will have to ma...
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...
Cloaking is ok says Google
A recent Google Webmaster blog post finally put the last nail into the coffin with regards to content substitution or to give it the demonic blackhat term Cloaking… A technique like sIFR still l...
Geo RSS primer
So now more or less fully restored Hackday I thought I would introduce a few of the more interesting concepts that were being banded around the event some of which are relevant to search engines and o...
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...
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...
Are Flash only sites the SEO Devil?
Nothing gets up the semantic web developer lobby noses more then the bane of their lives Flash. After spending months developing perfectly semantic well formed XML compliant HTML some upstart art herb...
It's a Friday thing - Google | Ask | AdBrite | and American illiteracy
I haven't done a Friday round up for a while so hopefully this new look Friday round up will bring a cheer to your faces on Friday the 13th for those who haven't read one of my Friday round ups they c...