Benazir Bhutto - how news affects SEO.

Its been an interesting day.

So far we have had two journalists on the phone this morning concerning photos that I have posted on a political forum that I designed.

To say I was surprised was an understatement, I mean, why were these journalists contacting us?

Well: about three months ago, Benazir Bhutto made her last public appearance in the UK, at a charity dinner in Rochester.  The political forum I own is Strood Conservatives which caters uniquely to politics in Rochester, Strood and Gillingham (our local area), was there that evening, and we have had the photos published for a few months…

It would appear that our forum has the last photos of Benazir taken in the UK before her tragic and cowardly assassination.  You can see the photos that are on our forum here: Strood Photos

What effect has this had on the forums traffic?

Well we typically get 25 to 40 u/v per day,  and we have had a decrease in traffic over the last 10 days as christmas has been upon us.  Traffic yesterday >1000 u/v with the same today so far. So thats 2000 extra visitors,  and all from google, or google image search!

It just goes to show the importance of staying in touch with developing world events for SEO!

MM

WSOP 2008 Schedule Published

I’ve not blogged about my second passion (behind webmastery ofcourse!) which is poker.

I, like everyone else that plays, consider myself to be the best player on the planet.

In reality Im sure I fall way, way behind that level - but hey its nice to dream once in a while! Anyway, the reason for this post is that Harrah’s yesterday published the 2008 WSOP Schedule which you can check out by following the link.

I havent decided which events to play in this year, and the fact that its on over 7 weeks this year causes a bit of an issue as I would like to go for the whole lot, but there’s NO WAY I could swing that with the mrs….

So, I guess I will have to think carefully about it, and when I do decide I guess I will post it up here!

Anyway, Buenas tardes muchachos!

MM

Why would Anyone Pay for Hosting Again?

Ive spent the week so far configuring my new hosting provider, and its finally ready!

I would like to announce here on my personal blog that as of the 5th of December 2007, my new hosting provider http://HostedWith.Us is open and ready for business!

Basically, you get up to 100GB of Storage Space and up to 100GB of monthly transfer allowance absolutely FREE!

All that we ask is that you have two small (tiny infact) links back to our homepage on your site,  and we add them automatically anyway so you dont need to worry about it!

What if you want the links removed?  Well you can do,  for less than 2$!!  Our aim is to really shake up the hosting market,  so go ahead, try us out today!

Buenas Tardes Muchachos,

MM.