One of the things we’ve been working on at IMJUK is to devise some added value extras: we’ve messed around with google maps and have given away a spreadsheet to help monitor the progress of internet marketing campaigns – we’re now looking at providing some free templates for Pligg, Wordpress etc.

I’ve posted before about how great FeedBurner is for getting your feed subscriber stats. However I do feel that it has a major failing – it doesn’t give you your link love back. And as someone who loves the free links that you can get from using your RSS feed appropriately having a feed in feedburner becomes a non option.

I just saw today that Microsft have launched their equivalent of Google Webmaster Tools at http://webmaster.live.com/. I was really interested to have a look at this.

In my daily RSS digest from over the weekend, which on a Monday takes a bit of digging through, I found a mention of RSS Hugger by Killer Startups. Free is good but this one looks like it could deliver stronger links than many of the free RSS sources.

I love the growth in these ’social websites’ – I’m never too sure whats considered as being social media these days. Everything that can be used to leverage traffic – sorry I mean friends – seems to be within this field. Here are some that I really like

I’m not a designer. Thats for sure . If you’ve ever seen my affiliate websites you’ll know that for a fact. One of the things I’m most rubbish at is the which fonts are used within images. I can tell it’s a serif or sans serif font but any further than that I’m kinda screwed. So when I see a font that that someone else uses and I think will be great for using on a site I have to spend ages going through my font lists.

Hmm. I’m not overly convinced by this but according to comscore the last month has seen MSN start to catch up with Google in the United Kingdom in terms of reach. I’m happily ensconced in a little UK Google Bubble and this may be why I’ve missed the surge of traffic coming to my sites from MSN.

Over the last couple of years I’ve noticed a wee trend emerging at Google. In the run up to christmas they seem to mess about with their algorithm. This could be completely normal and just the way that the dice fall on the Search Engine craps table or these dice could be loaded in favour of the house.