All too often in Cambridge do we see the same out-dated advice which will often include SEO topics such as ‘link building’, ‘reciprocal links’, ‘directory links’ and other extremely old (and not particular effective) white hat techniques; and so the question is asked? Where are all the clever, innovative, grey-hat SEO techniques and Search engine marketing companies for Cambridge city business?

Perhaps nCoded is one of the only forward thinking SEO brands in Cambridge!? At the momment the SEO that ncoded.com produces is highly effective and yet still we have many SEO models that we have still to put to work. Hence with nCoded have extensive SEO knowledge and experience, not to mention highly effective SEO, SEM, and Social Network strategies we thought that we would write an article to document this; more so than what ncoded.com clearly shows!

Its a sad fact that when a business first thinks about getting a website the last thing often in their minds is e-marketing, or seo, internet marketing, web marketing, search engine marketing, social network marketing, and host of other industry defined names which pretty much mean the same thing.

However what the business in question will soon begin to see is that unless they market their website they will of course get very few visitors. Therefore the choice then becomes to either use traditional marketing (advertising, promotion, word of mouth, referrals, and the like), or to perhaps use Internet marketing instead or both.

nCoded wrote this article to test SEO on both sub-sector & locale keywords; we hit first page of Google instantly out of 7 Million SRP’s; why not bring nCoded into your SEO Project?

As noted in the previous article: Professional WordPress Themes, some of the free wordpress themes being released lately are to an extremely high standard both in terms of design and end user functionality.

We have decided to write this article in order to present 10 wordpress themes which in our opinion our highly professional and offer much both in terms of being intuitive and end SEO results. In most cases these themes offer some of the functionality as given in the previous article, namely: content sliders, tabbed side bars, featured content on the home-page, and so on.

Please note that the themes are presented in no particular order.

Arras WordPress Theme

The Arras WordPress Theme is a clean and professional design for Magazine, News, and other websites or blogs that want to get as much of their content indexed into the search engines from their home-page and content pages.

As you can see, the homepage design comes with 3 different featured post areas with 4 customizable layouts. These allow you to present content on your homepage for effective SEO.

This wordpress theme also comes with 1, 2, and 3 column layouts including 7 different alternate styles.

This wordpress theme is compatible and ready for Word-press 3.0, with 2 menu locations ready and setup for use, custom post types, as well as custom taxonomies support. This word press theme is also setup with child theme support setup with numerous action and filter hooks. The Arras wordpress them also has community support available at the wordpress themes forums.

Swift WordPress Theme

The Swift WordPress Theme is a colourful and professional for Media focused blogs and websites.

SWIFT, as the name says, is the fastest loading, SEO optimized, AdSense ready, server friendly WordPress theme. It features Magazine layout,two different header styles, tabbed interface, two different featured post sliders, 6 custom widgets. Bundled with lot of options to build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme.

WordPress 3.0 ready with three menu locations and custom post types.SWIFT is the perfect choice for those who need a powerful and customizable theme. You can easily move your options from development server to live server with the built in import/export options function, a feature unique to SWIFT.Valid CSS3 & HTML.SWIFT has a active user community to help you with support queries.

MyMag WordPress Theme

The MyMag WordPress Theme is both colourful and professional and offers you key functionality (in terms of content) such as a content slider and featured posts on the homepage, as well as post lists with images.

myMag is a WordPress Magazine Theme with 2-3 Columns, lovely Javascript effects such as Slide show, Article Sliders, News-ticker, Image Mouse-over Effects, Drop-down Menu and many more.

MyMag is offers 3 widget-ready sidebars, a big option set with custom logo uploader, 3 colour schemes, display options, advertising options and much more!

Uses post-thumbnails to let you upload pictures very easy. Check http://www.wp-themix.org for support and knowledge.

Deep Blue WordPress Theme

The Deep blue WordPress Theme is colourful and professional and has a really nice rounded edge design including a content slider on the home-page.

The deep blue theme has a full admin options interface, with 6 advanced custom widgets, 4 widget areas, and nearly 40 options for changing your theme into your new blog or website.

The Deep Blue wordpress theme also has JQuery scripts (such as the content slider) to make your website even more appealing and professional.

VMWare, the developers state that: The Zimbra Collaboration Server is an enterprise-class open source email, calendar and collaboration server. With the most innovative web application available today, Zimbra boosts the productivity of users on any desktop and dramatically reduces TCO compared to legacy platform vendors.

Other key advantages include advanced compatibility with existing desktop email clients, over-the-air sync to smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) as well as better server scalability and more efficient administration.

VMWare also state on their website that Zimbra offers the following features, which (amongst others) are highly beneficial services to the SME:

• Rich Email: Tagging, Conversation Views and Fast Search make email manageable again
• Sharing and Document Management: Easily share files and folders throughout the organization and manage workflow in email
• Archiving and Discovery: Integrated, simple to use and cost-effective email compliance functionality built into Zimbra Collaboration Server
• Contact Management: Personal and global address lists that can be shared across the entire organization
• Mobility: Over-the-air sync to iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, any mobile web browser
• Powerful Administration: AJAX web interface and command line tools for user and server administration plus delegated access
• Group Calendars: Personal and group calendars with global free-busy times and Microsoft Exchange interoperability
• Desktop Sync: Use any email client like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird or maximize productivity with Zimbra Desktop

Zimbra is what in the past you would consider an Office Suite with communications, something akin to MS Outlook with plug-ins or Google hosted email with Google apps.

However the difference between Zimbra and these other offerings is that all of the facilities within Zimbra have been built into the application from the ground up. Zimbra seems to comprise of 2 main elements, the Zimbra server, and the client (which you may or not use prefering perhaps to use your normal mail or communcation client).

Another big factor about Zimbra is that it can not only run through your existing email client but as via a free Zimbra desktop client. Not to mention as being accessible via a Zimbra web client which runs in your own cloud on your server.

Recommended Zimbra Hosting Providers:

>> WebhostingUK

>> EUKHost

All too often do we see hijacked PCs where the owner’s complain of their computers slowing down! Or given a computer with loads of viruses the owner then complains about it not working as it did when it was new!

Does my PC have security problems?

If you don’t know if your computer (desktop, laptop, notepad, or other windows based device or computer) has a security virus or malware then take a look at the following indications:

• Computer very slow
• Internet very slow
• Computer keeps crashing
• Computer is acting strange
• Computer gets pop-up windows
• Internet browser is acting strange

Now this doesn’t always mean that your computer has a problem of Viruses or other Malware, however it sure does indicate that something is wrong!

Now this could be as simple as your computer just needing more RAM because, say, you upgraded from Windows XP to Vista, or because you installed a new game (which was expecting a higher specification machine) etc.

However, if this is not the case then the problem will be of one of 3 things:

• Hardware Issue
• Software Issue
• Security Issue

If you are certain it is not a hardware issue (no issues being shown with device manager), is not a software issue (operating system or application), then it will be a security issue.

The next thing to check and confirm is your MS Windows updates. How do they look, are they being updated and installed? Or are they turned off? If they are turned off then this will because one of 2 reason: Either you or someone else turned them off (which is pretty dumb), or a virus or malware has done this (for you).

Removing Viruses & Malware

A simply article such as this one cannot go into too much detail concerning exactly how you go about fixing every PC. The main reason we say this is because the amount of problems or things that can go wrong (and hence need resolving) is too great. Every PC will have slightly different areas that can be exploited by different software; this could be a Java version, a browser exploit, or a non-existent Windows update.

However we will give you some excellent pointers so that If you are a little technical then you should be able to complete the steps as necessary to get your computer back working again securely.

The first thing that you will need are 3 pieces of software, all of which completely free – and offer professional security as good, if not better than the paid solutions such as Norton (Internet Security).

• MS Windows Defender
• AVG Free edition
• Spybot Search and Destroy

The normal course of events that nCoded would normally follow when removing computer viruses and malware from computer PCs is as follows:

Use Windows Defender to remove any stubborn software that injects itself into processes pre-start-up. This is excellent software that will remove most nasty software that most of the other software (including the big players) wont even detect it (let alone remove it).

Be warned though; Windows Defender is NOT anti-virus software.

Once we are confident that Defender has done the work we require, we would then run an in-depth Spybot Search and Destroy scan, Immunizing after this completes.

Once both of the above have been successful completed we would then run a complete scan within AVG FREE. Once this has been completed we would then download any available Windows and Office updates as well as any applications that need updating.

Please note that before we do ANY scans we update the given software and or update any signatures that it requires.

Copyright Infringement Warning: nCoded.com does not condone any illegal activity on the Internet, including the downloading and sharing of illegal files which may breech copyright, and or local laws.

Security Warning: please be very careful when downloading from torrent files as some of the downloads will no doubt contain malware. Make sure you install reliable and modern security applications to make sure you MS Windows computer is fully protected.

Technically bit-torrent uses the P2P protocol whilst transferring files across the Internet, but in a highly and efficient manner when compared to FTP. The actual torrent file contains information which allows the bit torrent client to gather computer addresses of where parts of the end file can be located and downloaded.

Unlike normal file transfers on the internet (that use the FTP protocol), The Bit Torrent Protocol can download different parts from numerous computers thereby speeding up the transfer quite considerable. Indeed some large players are now offering marketing publications such as User manual pdf’s as torrent files due to the massive take-up of this file format and protocol, as well as the speeds that can be achieved.

Installing the Bit Torrent Client Application

Now before you can start to download any torrent files (and hence the end files) you will need a Bit Torrent client. There are many out there, most of which are free and or Open Source. We particularly like uTorrent (because it is small, efficient, as well as looks and works well). You can download uTorrent from their website.

>> uTorrent

Just install the uTorrent application (as you would any other application) and once you have completed this, then when you next open a torrent file (.torrent) it will automatically open the correct application (e.g. uTorrent).

The Top 10 Best Torrent Sites for 2011

Now to take a look at the 10 hottest Bit Torrent websites on the Internet in 2011. We have decided to review our sites using the following criterea:

• Quality of torrent files
• Number of torrent files
• Website ease of use
• Website search facilities

Taking the following to guide us, the following 10 torrent sites are the ones that you should be bookmarking and using if you are currently looking for torrent files on the Internet.

1. Pirate Bay
2. Torrent Day
3. Seed Peer
4. ISO Hunt
5. Fenopy
6. BT Junkie
7. Extra Torrent
8. Torrent Freak
9. I Love Torrents

Another reason that you may want to use a proxy is perhaps because you want to see how it handles using a different browser or browser setup and configuation. Using a proxy is a good way to see this, with some desktop software proxies offering complete control including the screen resolution, browser type, applications or addons available, etc.

Now when using a proxy often you will want to use more than one which is where My Web Tunnel comes in very handy. My web tunnel offers (via Javascript) a very quick and efficient method that you can send a URL via multiple proxies just by clicking each one in turn. If you take a look at the site you will no doubt get the idea very quickly.

In our opinion My web tunnel is one of the best free online proxy websites available for the quick and easy way it works. We wouldn’t normally review a site as basic as this however the functionlity it offers is excellent and extremely useful.

>> My Web Tunnel

We feature both Office suites that run on the Microsoft operating systems, as well as those that are fully online or Cloud versions. The main difference between these is that the former you will need to install (after downloading) with the later (online or cloud) being setup already pretty much ready for you to use.

All the office suites we feature here are free (or rather open source which equates to the same thing for the end user) and intend to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

It would seem strange that organisations spend extensive monies for multiple office suite licenses when yet there are many open source alternatives which offer the same, if not more functionality for free. If you add to this the fact that most can read and write to popular formats including .doc and .pdf the appeal becomes even more apparent.

A good example are the county libraries here in the UK; e.g. Cambridge city library which currently has over 30 computers available for use, all of which have MS office installed on them. Obviously (we would hope that the library buys these as bulk packs) however for the sake of argument let us imagine that each has been bought separate (something which some organisations do).

30 x £400 = £12,000

So as you can see, by going the open source route an organisation which has around 30 desktops each with MS office installed could save around £12K per upgrade!! Now if we add to this for example the fact that the UK has over 100 libraries, you can see that actually the saving could be around 1.2 Million per upgrade.

Online or Cloud Offie Suites:

ZCubes
Feng Office Community Version
Google Apps or Google Docs

Desktop Versions

Gnome Office Live
IBM Lotus Symphony
LibreOffice
NeoOffice

This new article is for all the people that have had questions about the best way to use this analysed information, as well as those taking their first steps using automated SEO tools.

OK firstly make sure that you took a look at the first article which you can do by browsing here: An SEO analysis on Amplify, Ping, and Posterous

What you will notice is that I have created a grid that shows which sites will automagically post into other sites (once you have installed or allowed the correct app or API access).

Hence Posterous can auto-post into Amplify and Ping. Please read the list from the top left to top bottom.

OK now the strategy should be to get as many social spaces as possible to accept your new content, using these automagic tools. Personally I dont send the same content to all these ‘social spaces’ but instead edit the main content to make sure that I get as many keword variants as possible.

Now clearly I am not going to give the game away too much – well more than what I have done already – else I would never get any consulting | contracting work – however what I will tell you is with the information in the previous aricle, what you will be able to implement is posting to 150+ social spaces in around 15 mouse clicks!!

Hopefully this should give you 150 reasons to study this analysis and build up your own SEO strategy – as you can now see how powerful this technique is when done correctly!!

Clearly with such an analysis in hand you can then create a logical SEO strategy based on posting your content to social type media web applications.

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.