The Travel PR Blog

I didn’t really know what a cron job was until this morning but some clients needed an easy way to post to their corporate blog and, having promised them a process as simple as writing an email, I decided to set up proper email posting. Previously I have used [...]

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Want to know what Google’s universal search results will look like in a few years time? Listen to Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, talking about an experiment the Google UI team performed some time back:
When you started seeing some diagrams, some video, some news, some charts, you might actually have a [...]

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In a conversation about Google Webmaster Tools with Lee Odden from TopRank, ex-Googler Vanessa Fox once again mentions the importance of anchor text. She points out that having keywords within anchor text linking back to you can make a huge difference to your ranking.
Incidentally, that’s why - in my last post - I made the [...]

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If you use Firefox and you suffer from a really tiresome unresponsive script bug which causes Firefox to hang when you execute a contextual search via Google, you have probably searched for a cure via the search engines. Unfortunately this is where the blogosphere as echo chamber has its downside; most blog posts just parrot [...]

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Time for another quick experiment. This is the result of just five minutes playing with PhotoNotes, an app which lets you add searchable notes to your pictures and then provides code to embed them in a web page, with links if you like, in effect creating an image map out of - in this case [...]

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James Cridland’s links for the day led me to Mark Ramsey’s post on widgets and making your brand embeddable, which in turn made me click on the video clip in the sidebar.
Which then reminded me that a combination of images, the Ken Burns effect plus a sound track could occasionally be as useful - and [...]

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I am really glad Google has decided to make it easy for people to embed their maps online. I have been through the process of requesting the API and playing with the code, but this new facility to grab an iframe on the map page makes it all so simple.
This, for the sake of a [...]

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I wonder how many hotel PR’s would be relaxed about the blogosphere if they thought staff were writing about their guests’ filthy habits on a near-daily basis.

Hotel Chick (via the VacantReady hotel industry blog) does this and more in a forthright blog, which pulls back the covers on - no, you probably don’t want [...]

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There is no particular reason for choosing this video - except you have to wonder what ratio of lifeguards to bathers they have at this Tokyo wave pool.
No, I am inflicting this on you as a test of a new Firefox extension from VodPod which offers one button posting of embedded videos - direct from [...]

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It took Google Blog search almost exactly half an hour to notice my last post and send it out as a Google Alert. Not quite as fast as sending content out directly in an RSS feed, but almost.

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Hallelujah, looks like the Blogger Web Comments Firefox extension is working properly again. It’s the easiest and quickest way to find out who has been talking about any site you happen to visit.

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A combination of summer holidays – ah, the sunshine, ah the clear blue skies of the Austrian Alps, yay to drizzle in the Scottish Highlands – and getting two client blogs off the ground, has kept me away from doing anything here for so long I could have grown a beard and you wouldn’t have [...]

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