Does anyone remember Silktide Sitescore? It was a website testing software that would measure your website based on many variables – such as valid code, PR, text to image ration, meta tags, load speed and several other factors. Silktide closed down several years ago, but now they have re-launched the service as Nibbler. The new [...]

XML Sitemaps – For creating sitemaps of your website Google Webmaster Tools –  Submit your sitemaps here and check for indexing errors Twitterfeed – automatically post your RSS feeds to Twitter Trade Doubler – The one place for all of your affiliate programs W3C Validator – Check the validity of your website Web Page Analyzer [...]

One of my websites (Shareworld.co.uk) has been the repeated victim of spam attacks in the last few days. I have been trying to trace the attacker – the first attack came from 75.101.225.120 which, after a lookup at ip-address.com I found belongs to Amazon Web Services – Elastic Compute Cloud – this is a service provided by [...]

Getting Blacklisted by Yahoo’s Mail Servers is becoming very difficult to resolve! Although our server is not actually on any blacklists and does not partake in spam emailing campaigns, because we did not have Reverse DNS setup correctly, we have been blacklisted by Yahoo. Yahoo are contactable here but when your communicating by online forms [...]

Are there any large companies that have actually managed to stay in touch with their customers? It seems impossible to have any sort of reasonable interaction with them, I wont mention any names, but working in the IT industry I find it frustrating when dealing with large companies – you have to claw away at [...]