It appears spammers on twitter are getting more sophisticated and deceptive. A tweet mentioning @clickwebdesign rolled in, asking a question. Nothing suspicious until I remembered answering the exact question from the same person some time ago. After a second glance I realised it wasn't the same person at all, but a cloned twitter account!

Networking events are a popular approach to finding new contacts and potentially new customers for b2b businesses in particular. It's most likely that you have attended some yourself, but was it really worthwhile? How many new customers and contacts did you meet?

When searching for information on the Internet, many people simply enter a search term in Google and keep changing it until they eventually find a suitable website. I'm here to tell you there are techniques you can apply to save time and find better information.

Most of them are quick and relatively easy to use. After you learn to apply these expert search tips, useful and relevant links will appear on the first page of Google faster and with less effort, so here they are...

A healthy growing twitter following, if managed well, can get your business message out to thousands of potential new clients each week, without filling your timeline with rubbish tweets you're not interested in.

Using tools to manage social media for business, especially for Twitter, saves time and promotes growth. If your new to using twitter tools to spring clean and grow your twitter following, these three tools will amaze you! Just run them in order to unfollow those not following you back or sending spammy tweets, and then grow your audience with targeted twitter followers.

We've all cursed when following a link that promises to provide the information we need, only to see the dreaded "404 error: this page cannot be found". Broken links not only send website visitors running, but are a red flag for Google and search engine rankings. If your business website is more than a few pages (and I hope it is!) manually checking for broken links by clicking them all is just impractical. So how do you automatically check for broken links?