News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from October 2005
| Balancing the keyword load Getting the balance right with keywords is an art in itself. Too many keywords in the text and it looks like spamming. Too few and your site will not perform as well as it should in search engine rankings. Throw in the need for page text to be both readable and help visitors to use the site, and keyword balancing resembles a finely balanced seesaw. But, as ever, there are workarounds. | |
| 8Mb broadband trials extended BT appears to be taking the threat of higher speed broadband rivals Bulldog and Be seriously by extending its 8Mb broadband trials next month. | |
| More free telly More free telly, this time via broadband, is in the offing next summer following the unveiling of BT plans for a new nationwide service. | |
| Promotion, promotion, promotion It may be a well-worn line by now but getting a company web site online isn’t the end of the story, it’s just the beginning. | |
| Broadband grows net audience The uptake of broadband in the UK is helping web site owners grab a bigger audience share, further prompting the need for broadband-enabled content. | |
| Firefox, the builder’s mate Being a small to micro-sized business usually means wearing a variety of hats – from MD to sales team and chief bottle washer. Now, we increasingly need to add webmaster to the list as well. | |
| Biz version of Google Desktop 2 Google Desktop 2, the search application for PCs, has been upgraded for business and is now available in an enterprise version. | |
| Harris bus cuts carriage and data transfer The global village may not be such a daft notion after all as a small business solution illustrated recently. | |
| Thoughts on keywords Keywords, the bedrock of your site’s find-ability on the World Wide Web, are constant objects of fascination and wonder for web site owners. | |
| Island schools at the edge get broadband link A school in Shetland has been linked up by broadband to a school in the Scilly Isles to symbolize BT’s commitment to making high-speed internet connections as universal as possible. | |
| Get your blogs off Two important developments with implications for web site owners and small to micro-sized businesses have gone relatively unnoticed. Surprisingly, they involved two of the biggest search engine names – Google and Yahoo! | |
| Wireless broadband project ready for homes and businesses The Connected Communities fixed wireless broadband project in the Western Isles has announced pricing and availability of its services to business and residential users in the islands. | |
| Scottish software industry conference thinks big Dragons' Den panellist Doug Richard and the EDS futurist Jeff Wacker are lending their support to the Scottish Software Industry Conference 'Think Big'. October 6 2005, Airth Castle, Stirlingshire. | |