Blue Utopia Weblog

Ignore the SEO emails

2010-05-26T08:48:28+01:00

You get them all the time and so do we – unsolicited emails offering to improve your site’s search engine ranking. It’s a common question we get about whether these are useful services or not. Generally our answer is no.

There are two big parts to getting your site to show

How a domain expires

2010-03-15T08:44:56+01:00

Contrary to reasonable presumptions, when a domain expires, it is not actually expired. What it is instead is entering phase 1 of a long and convoluted grace-period process.

To start, when the owner of a domain does not renew by the expiration date, the domain’s status is changed

Things NOT to ever do: Rent or Buy an Email List

2010-01-28T22:46:14+01:00

One of the things we hear questions and confusion about on a pretty regular basis is the issue of buying email lists. It almost always arises when a client is entertaining a proposal from a consultant who is proposing a list-building strategy that includes renting or buying an email list.

Yes,