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Really,put an open source CMS system on your website (which obviously isn't already wordpress), which no doubt won't get updated and will be open to abuse.

Or maybe I'm being too paranoid

I'd be more interested in seeing examples of the quality and construction of blog posts that you have seen drive traffic to your clients posts. 90% of blog posts I see are just internet regurgitated churn

So an online entrepreneur decides to have a dabble with an old school newspaper. Apparently it's nothing to do with Amazon, but no doubt Amazons resources will be utilised in the future.

Be interesting to see where he takes the paper, and maybe with some fresh thinking, he can breath some life back into newspaper sales.

BBC News - Amazon boss Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post for $250m

I'll bet other newspaper owners will be watching closely to see what he does different

Quite an in depth but fascinating article on the future of search.

How the Semantic Web Changes Everything for Search - Search Engine Watch

If nothing else, start thinking about the future, especially if considering some cheap SEO link building. People are regularly throwing the term "seismic changes" around, and I think they are right. But if you start to understand where it's going, then it's not that scary, and CMS systems like wordpress are rolling out structured data plugins.

If you run an ecommerce site, then you'll have the opportunity to mark up your products.

Has anyone started playing with it yet?

So what do people think of the current Gibraltar row?

Is it a relic of colonial days, or a self governing British protectorate? I can imagine being pretty hostile if I was Spanish, but from what I understand, the population of Gibraltar consider themselves British, so should they be subjected to this border crossing bullying from Spain? Maybe some kind of joint ownership might work?

I like the idea of moving the business there and paying no corporation tax

erm I think the Native Indians may have a thing to say about that

But other than a similar language, the Yanks and Brits are poles apart, but I think there is a reason.

The second world war saw the collapse of colonial power and the end of the British Empire. Within 6 years, the UK went from being a (possibly the) leading global powerhouse, influencing policy, economics and military policy across the board, to becoming a war weary bankrupt country up to it's eyes in debt.

Military aid, done under the USA lend lease policy was done as a hard bargain, with a foot on the throat, which wasn't actually paid off until the 1980's (I think). But lend lease actually lifted the US out of economic depression, and made it into the power house it is today.

I think the effects of the war dragged on into our national psyche. Political and Business Leaders took too long to realise the Empire days were over, living in the past, with outdated views. Socialism took hold, fuelled by powerful unions, which stifled growth, entrepreneurial spirit and business risk. The welfare state gradually went from an admirable idea to shackling the population with debt and tearing down age old hard working values, and becoming the expensive monster it is now.

The USA had the opposite affect, the mainland untouched by the war, and they profited massively, both economically and politically. They went into the 1950s with growth, encouraging the American Dream optimism, and promoting innovation.

I think only now, in the last 10, 20 years we are starting to wake up and move to the American way of thinking. Anything is achievable.

I'm proud to be a Brit, confess to being a history buff, but it's time to move forward. I'm not sure if we're ready for awesome, but being optimistic is a good start

Hi Angela

Are you really telling me you have no idea what bandwidth means?

It's a fair question from maybe a non tech savvy business or site owner, but you have a link to an SEO company in your signature?

Just google it like anyone else would! If there is an element of bandwidth that doesn't make sense, then by all means ask.

You have asked a lot of very basic 1 line questions, and more than happy to spend time explaining to someone who is being genuine, but I feel this is just a question for a questions sake... maybe just trying and get some link exposure for an efi blog post?

With all the publicity positive and negative, that Wonga is generating, this article has an interesting take of conflicting publicity and brand damage.

There is such a thing as bad publicity

So in the UK we are known for being a bit understated and more modest, so maybe it's time to take some notes from over the pond.

10 Successful Entrepreneurs on How to Be Awesome

Erm anyone here feeling awesome?

So the news today, Lloyds apparently back in profit, tax payer make get a few shekels back, and Lloyds master plan is to re-create the TSB brand.


Imagine having a High Street bank called TSB.... Can even think of a slogan, the bank that likes to say...

Really has been an odd few years, banks going bust, banks buying banks, getting bailed out by the tax payer to stop them going bust. Banks about to buy banks then changing their mind.

I've no idea what's happening to my Natwest Business Account. I got told we had been sold to Santander Our online banking weblinks changed, then it all fell through, now apparently we're getting sold off to someone else, but no idea who to or when

You don't need to change bank account anymore, if you wait long enough, you'll end up getting merged or bought out by someone else...

cheeky gits!

Found my mugshot the other day on some ropey website, apparently I was someone else, unless I have a doppelganger who also only clothes shops once every 5 years...

God bless the internet