The E-Cigarette Debate – What is Their Future?


April 9, 2013 by  
Filed under Family and Personal, Technology

The E-Cigarette Debate

Smoking kills as we are often reminded. It’s a fact that all smokers are familiar with.You are more likely to die from cancer if you smoke cigarettes on a regular basis. Recent articles in the press and online have been becoming increasingly vocal about the potential dangers of electronic cigarettes.Cigarette manufacturers around the world have considerable influence over policy makers across the globe.

If our government truly had our interests foremost in their minds, they would save us from ourselves and ban cigarettes from sale in the UK. They have legislated in order to ‘save us’ from far less dangerous products and activities.

In the UK we have a Government that is prepared to risk strangling industry with health and safety red tape in order to mitigate a small risk to workers, while at the same time ignoring the 100,000 annual deaths that are caused by smoking. Tobacco currently earns the Government £12.1 Billion annually, and that money Read more

Guest Blogging Guidelines – How to Start Guest Blogging


Guest Blogging Guidelines

Guest blogging is a fantastic way to build traffic to your website or blog. Guest blogging is becoming a very popular way to increase your popularity by building links from high quality guest blogs to your content.

Important points for guest blogging;

  • Do not automate your guest blogging process
  • Write high quality, unique content for each submission
  • Focus on niche themed guest blogs
  • Use different link text from each guest post

How to Find Guest Blogging Sites

You can find suitable blogs that Read more

How to Increase your Blog Traffic


January 16, 2013 by  
Filed under Technology

How to Increase your Blog Traffic

 

The best way to make your blog successful is to increase your blog traffic. There are several ways to do this, but the most successful in the long term is to get either search engine traffic or social media traffic to your individual posts by optimizing your posts for the main keywords that each post is discussing.

The most popular free WordPress plugin for optimizing content is ‘SEO by Yoast’ which will make sure that all of our posts are optimized for search. It is very easy to use.

If you make sure that each post complies with Yoast recommendations then it will stand a chance to rank well.

All it then needs is to have a few backlinks Read more

Photography Tips for Christmas


December 20, 2012 by  
Filed under Family and Personal, Technology

Photography Tips

It’s just a few days until Christmas so I thought a quick tutorial on the topic of Christmas Photography might be appropriate. Hopefully this will give you some good Christmas photo ideas.

Prepare – Making a List, checking it twice….

Making sure you’re ready to capture any planned event is part of the key to a successful Photography shoot. Getting yourself ready but also the location of your shots is worthwhile.

Pack the camera – goes without saying? I forgot mine last year in the rush to get the car packed.

Make sure your batteries are charged and you have extras and/or the re-charger packed.

Pack extra memory cards – have them empty and Read more