Burning and dodging basic tutorial

This is the final shot of an apple taken for a “treasure hunt” theme with the Edinburgh Digital Photography Group.

The whole thing from taking the carea out of the bag to processing the image took around 25 minutes. The beauty was that being a home effort, everything was to hand – PC, camera, light, apple [...]

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Track iPhone visitors in Analytics

Ever wondered how many iPhone visitors are browsing your pages? If not then maybe you should be. Its predicted that there will be a rapid increase in mobile device web users over the next two years.  Unless you’ve been on Mars for the past two years then it can’t have escaped you that Apple’s iPhone [...]

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Meet Molly

This is Molly everyone and she is my cat! Molly is a rather large girl but very cute. She is always sleeping and always hungry. Recently she has learned how to open doors which I find to be extremely cute/annoying/intelligent. This leads me to believe that cats really have us wrapped around thir litte paws [...]

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Some tips for keywords in urls

This relates to wordpress but I’m sure other blogs will do the same stuff so please excuse my ignorance for not mentioning other platforms.
OK….so keywords in URLs.
1. Set your categories to use keywords that are relevant example: stuartlow.me.uk/internet-marketing/
2. Note the dashes between the words!

dashes are best
underscores are next best
no seperators are least [...]

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The value of local search – part 1

I’d like to think of myself as a little bit of a local search guru if I were so bold. I’ve been experimenting for the past 8 months with local search and sometimes I think I’ve cracked Google’s algo only for things to get thrown back in my face when my experimental local listing gets [...]

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How much time do you waste on twitter?

It seems to me that twitter is finally showing it’s real “worthlessness” in the world of business. From what I’ve seen first hand I would say that not only is it a waste of time but also a cause for concern – particularly for small businesses.
I say this because in my day to day role [...]


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