There seem to be misconceptions about how e-mail servers work. People seem to think that e-mails work independently from the internet. In order for anyone to be able to send and receive e-mails regardless of the internet connection you’re using you need to have a good internet connection and speed. Sometimes you’ll find that you are able to connect to the internet but when you click on “send and receive” you don’t get your e-mails. At this point you start to panic thinking... (more...)

The clear cut world of advertising and marketing has undertaken a dramatic turn as of late. Traditional marketing methodologies such as the likes of newspapers and other print media are losing market share daily to the more interactive customer-orientated online marketing solutions available. These audiences are both more versatile, accessible and more consumer targeted. In order to try and keep ahead of this online competition, you need to make an effort in keeping up with the latest SEO trends... (more...)

Building a website within SEO best practice guidelines is the first step to getting your site crawled, indexed and ranked by major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. The important points here to remember are to : Submit your URL to the search engine (like this for Google) Ensure that your sitemap.xml has been submitted (like this) These 2 steps ensure that the search engines know that your site is there to be crawled and searched. Once this has been done though it takes a... (more...)

JD Internet Consulting and DiscoverSEO are proud to announce their latest achievement attained by the SEO department. Over the past couple of weeks, the SEO department consisting of Jonathan Houston (Online Marketing Manager), Megan Trow (SEO Specialist) and Nick Duncan (SEO Specialist), have been hard at work preparing for the Google AdWords Professional Qualification by engaging in the online tutorials, group discussions and working with client accounts. Recently, the team then completed the GAP... (more...)

If you don’t already know, duplicate content can have a hazardous effect on your SEO efforts, and we were lucky enough for Google to tell us about it in February this year. Google released an article hinting that you should specify your preferred version of your page(s). And when Google “hints” something, you’d be stupid not to make it a standard in your procedures! By using canonical links, you are telling Google which page is the “original” or “preferred”... (more...)

Having just attended the 2nd Annual Social Media Conference in Johannesburg I thought it pertinent that I blogged about Social Media and how it is affecting people, business and marketers alike. We have become a society fixated with immediate results and instant gratification… The evolution of the internet itself has fueled a lot of this transformation in information consumption. The first “version” of the internet was basically a directory and if you were listed there you were... (more...)

I have recently been developing mobi sites for some of our customers and after an immense number of hours researching, I have yet to find a South African mobi website that validates. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Before we go any further, let’s define the term “Validation“: 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. To establish the soundness of; corroborate. After some time, I managed to validate the 2 mobi... (more...)

To be able to actively generate more traffic to your own site or blog, there are a number of methods you can follow. An important means of creating instant traffic and instant link juice is by firstly, posting relevant articles to your site or adding posts to your blog consistently, and secondly, by submitting these articles / posts to a number of social media and social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking (SB) has made this entire process more manageable and successful which results in generating... (more...)

JD Internet Consulting is looking for a senior PHP developer to fill a position in our development department. Requirements: - Minimum 5 years of proven commercial PHP and MySQL experience - Strong JavaScript, DHTML, XHTML, CSS and HTML experience - Ability to develop and support PHP and MySQL technologies - Develop according to coding standards and best practices - Ensure that all applications meet business requirements - Ability to work under pressure, multi task and use your capabilities to proactively... (more...)

If you’re in the online marketing industry, be prepared for some big changes. Google recently announced their latest project – Google Caffeine, which is set to change the search world. In essence, Google is rewriting the way they index sites and for the first time, we have a sneak preview of how this will affect our rankings. For those that think this wont be a big change, think again. Matt Cutts has mentioned that this could compare to the Big Daddy update in late 2005. If you’re... (more...)