What is an online business directory? Essentially an online business directory is a website where business or website owners can add their website URL, contact details and information about their company. This information is generally listed into nested categories to allow visitors to the business directory to find the products or services they are looking [...]

Have you heard of Twitter? It’s hard not to have if you’re marketing through the internet or even through normally daily life. Twitter is regularly mentioned on the radio and in newspapers and many websites now ask you to follow them on Twitter. Have you thought about using it to help market your business or [...]

As you will no doubt be aware already, social networking sites and social media are very useful tools for promoting your product or brand. Such options aren’t instant solutions and they take a lot of time and effort to implement and to be successful.  It takes time to build a following, but if applied correctly [...]

It is a well known fact in Web Designer circles and even the web user community at large that Internet Explorer 6 (or rather its continued endemic use, especially by large corporations) is one of, if not the main, reason for the web being held back from reaching its full potential on the desktop. Its [...]

For information on hashtags on twitter, please reading this introductory guide article to Twitter hashtags. An interesting thing about Twitter Hashtags is that they aren’t officially supported by Twitter. Hashtags have been developed and introduced by Twitter users independently of Twitter. Currently you can’t actually follow Twitter Hashtags as such through the main official Twitter [...]

Twitter Hashtags are a very useful and powerful tool that can help spread your tweets and gain followers. Essentially, in a tweet you put a # immediately before a keyword or abbreviated code to create a Twitter Hashtag. For example, if this tweet is about something relating to rugby, a Twitter hashtag of #rugby could [...]

Tweet or twit? Understanding Twitter – the basics Is there any point to twitter? Is it worth using? Can it help my web business? These are all common questions relating to twitter asked by clients of Gator Web Design, a SEO company in Reading, UK. I think it’s worth providing some brief information about twitter [...]