Klout Spouting or “Should I bother with Klout?”

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Tweet As it is kind of my job to know what works and what does not, I did join Klout to see what all the fuss was about, some time ago. And rapidly realised it was not a system reliably informing anyone of anything, quite frankly. It’s nonsense. And anyone that considers your worth by [...]

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Flash! Aaaarrrrgh

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Tweet Now I’m not sure that the title above will have worked quite as well as it did in my head (think Queen…) but anyway – you’ll be getting used to my odd ways by now! For many years Flash has been a pain in the behind for many sensible Internet marketers. Just this week [...]

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Finding Google Instant…

Tweet So Google have evolved their search again, to speed up our online surfing and searching, and there is some buzz about what it may mean for the SEO geeks and their clients, and what it actually means for us searchers. The thing is, I could not see a difference to what was happening when [...]

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Will you buy without the BS? Awesome (stop laughing)

Tweet As the WordPress Blogmistress grows gently, all the while with none of this “Get your Kick-Ass WordPress Website Here!” or suchlike, I constantly see otherwise quite sane and personable people selling in what I call the “Awesome Rock Star” way. You know what I mean – every blog post or article is “7 ways [...]

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Get back here and play, you SEO marketeers, you

Tweet Last Thursday was my day for writing, so any avenue for procrastination was of course explored… Image by hartboy via Flickr Imagine my devilish delight when an email landed in the Blogmistress inbox suggesting that the sender could get me onto the first page of Google. It was too tempting to see just what [...]

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Updating Facebook from Twitter – selectively!

Tweet Just a quick post for those of you who want to select which of your Twitter updates then update your Facebook status.  Updating from Twitter with everything is simple to do, but most of us, especially if we use Twitter and Facebook for different things, should be more selective! A young man in Oxford, [...]

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Email newsletters

Tweet Most of us receive many email newsletters every week – but how many do we bother reading? It seems to me that some are getting a bit beyond their original intentions – far to much “look at me” and not enough of what you want to read – less of the content that is [...]

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Be Sure of Your ReTweets

Tweet Some musings after recent having a retweet affect some people’s view of me, in a negative way. Now we all know that retweeting adds a sheen of being in the know, a helpful person, knowing who to follow, but we do sometimes need to consider just what that tweet we’re saying is worth our [...]

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Don’t plagiarise a good Internet marketer!

Tweet What a wealth of blog post topics today – just from keeping an eye on Twitter! S0 – what’s riled me now?  And why would anyone plagiarise a good Internet marketer? To most of you this is not only obvious, but something you’d not consider doing anyway, but for the one or two who [...]

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A more gentle approach to your Internet marketing

Tweet This is bothering me. People who set themselves up as experts, who suggest that they can tell people what to do when they don’t appear to be doing much of it themselves. How can that be? How can they possibly be credible when not joining in with the very people they are purporting to [...]

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