Thought I’d just add that I have started to populate the recommended resources page. These are the tools I use personally. You will not see me talking about anything I do not own and use to help build my virtual real estate empire.  Nothing startling yet but I hope to have a few surprises up my sleeve in due course. However, for those of you that have never tried Roboform delay no further and grab yourself a copy today. It is easily the most useful piece of software I have ever owned and I couldn’t live without it.

So I’ve just been through my first Google Page Rank Update.  Where is the science related to this?  I have a dozen or so sites that have accquired PR1 & PR2 status out of the 35+ I have developed over the last 4 months.

Why some have been awarded PR and others haven’t is a complete mystery to me.  One site, another blog I have only made 2 posts on in the last 4 months and has no back links and no traffic (now PR1) whilst this site posted to regularly and having a number of back links and good traffic gets no PR at all.

I’m not attached to PR (which is just as well) because it seems completely random.  In fact on of my sites got a PR2 that is only just a month old and hasn’t really been worked at all yet.

What has your experience of PR been – I’d love to hear from you please leave a comment.

That is the question I have been asking myself lately. Can it really generate traffic? I’d be being hard on myself it I said I had no concept of Web 2.0. It’s been around for a while but I have only been learning the online game since February and I simply haven’t had time to invest in understanding social networking etc. So over the weekend I invested a couple of hours in a spot of research and found a great free guide that is up to date (how unusual is that?) from social marketing authority Jack Humphrey.

Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of the Authority Black Book today.

Spam is a real problem! Ok so that didn’t tell you anything you didn’t know already but aren’t you sick to death of those email harvesting spiders visiting your site, scraping your contact address and sending you a pile of crap. One way around this is to use contact forms but that means you need to create additional code or learn another plugin. A quick fire solution is to use an email icon generator and I tracked down a free tool here which does the job perfectly. It’s great for using in BANS privacy policies or on contact pages.  Check it out Free Email Icons.

So it’s Friday again already and time for a new video – I must of watched last weeks episode 5 times and it still cracks me up – I’m so easy to entertain. Episode 2 is now live so scroll down the screen and relax a bit.