FrogBlog

The FrogBlog is a place where Paul Gardner - company Partner and nominated vocal representative of Webbed IT - will air some of his stringently moderated thoughts and views to be read, digested and discussed.

If you have any topics of interest or questions that you may wish to put to Paul and the hopefully soon to grow community who hang around the blog then please get in touch.

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Google and Yahoo index new pages within a week
29th Mar 2008
Since the launch of our new site on 20th March I have understandably been keeping a keen eye on our stats for bot visits. Previously Webbed IT had a single web page and therefore only had inbound links to our home page (over 3,900 according to Yahoo) so I was interested to see how long it would take the main Search Engines to begin indexing our new pages ... today we are beginning to see some results.
Fact: Bandwidth is not free, it costs hosting suppliers money
12th Mar 2008
When searching for a suitable host for your website it's very tempting to believe the myth that is 'unlimited bandwidth'. All we advise is that you seek out the 'acceptable usage policy' and decide what would happen if one day you were deemed to have breached this and your site was taken offline in an instant.
Is it wise for ISPs to adopt Webwise Advertising?
11th Mar 2008
Phorm, a US firm, have developed a controversial set of tools which track your online surfing habits at Internet Service Provider (ISP) level and then deliver targeted advertising based on that data. BT, Virgin and Talk Talk have already signed up to trial the system which is getting some support from respected privacy campaigners Simon Davies and Gus Hosein.

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

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