David Caldo who's real name is Dr M G Notley is the author of a novel in the thriller genre. He also runs a web company called Working Internet Solutions but our research team could not find a home page in Google. Additionally as Dr M G Notley he is connected with a project called writerspromte.com.

This is where the rot sets in. Lord Matt, regular writer and Managing Director of Adullam Limited (owners of Globally Local) wrote his exact opinion of David Caldo, the writer's real life persona Dr M G Notley and his methods of SEO. Lord Matt specifically stated that in his opinion this was "dodgy" and the work akin to that of a "cowboy" (rough and of low standards).

So author David Caldo (who is really Dr M G Notley) has started down a path of initiating legal proceedings on what appear to be narrow grounds. The implication is that should he win against Matt UK bloggers will be significantly limited in what they can write about essentially removing the right to be critical of businesses or government. This would be a blow for free speech in the UK and the EU.

For the reason the staff of Globally Local stand fully behind Lord Matt (would we do otherwise?) in his defense of his right to share his opinion. I personally recommend that other UK and EU based bloggers do likewise and that US bloggers duplicate the "objectionable" content to make it harder to suppress. I recommend this because as bloggers ourselves we do not have to stand for rudeness in personal communications.

Writing a blog is not always an easy task. Sure it s easy when you start but before long all the best idea are spent and you feel you are writing the same tired old stuff over and over.

This article is your guide to overcoming that problem by dint of a simple organisational trick that should have the creative juices flowing for a good long time yet.

The best posts come from what you care about. But no mater how much you love a topic there is only so much you can say about it in one post.

What if, though, I could show you a way to say everything you know about the topic in such a way that you learn more about it while doing so.

Would that be worth something to you?

I am going to share this secret for free.

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While getting a review is a good way to get an extra link and perhaps an exxtra few readers to realy boost the link popularity when you start out you can not quite beat a good quality listing in a free directory.

There are many such directories just for "blogs" and (some even charge for listing).

Because of this we commisioned Lord Matt to create us a review of these blog directories. What he came up with was more than just a simple review and listing it was a "full on" sortable index of the good, the bad and the ugly of directories.

The Great Directory Review (issue 1) lists clearly the directories, their Alexa Rank and thier strngths and weaknesses as well as highligting the requirements for listing.

Many are suitable for general sites but all are suitable for blogs.

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Once you hav a domain and a blog you might be stuck for a use of it.

Not our regular contributer Lord Matt he found himself with a domain that had no use untill the day he found a penny.

For some reason he thought to himself - I'll make this penny into a cool million.

...and that is exactly what he is trying to do!

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We have always taken whatever reasonable measures we have available to bring you the best advice and news possible and have not stopped at just basic efforts but have gone on to take bigger and better steps.

One such step is to invite a lively blogging personality in the shape of Lord Matt to join us a regular writer.

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Spike Club is a Meme and a blog carnival. The aim is to simply get blog writers to talk about each other while at he same time having a little fun.

Each week it is the tern of a different blog to get a review. This week it was the tern of financial-independence.net so we sent Lord Matt to take a look.

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by Lynette Chandler

As your blog becomes more popular you are likely to notice that you'll get more and more negative comments on it. Even if you are generally the calmest person who can take this type of thing in stride it can get to you when you get this type of feedback on your personal space. Don't lash out before you take a deep breath and sit back. Here are some pointers to help keep you sane and take back your blog.

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In school gangs were generally not such a hot idea. They tended to use the strength of the amassed group to bully and generally help the ring leaders get their own way.

Fortunately not everything is like school and joining a group of like mined individuals is, these days, far more focused on working as a group than pulling down others. This group membership can help you to promote your site by building a shared relationship with people likely to be interested in your site.

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When you have just started out with a new website of any kind it is often hard to get attention flowing towards your content. If you are writing a blog this can mean that you enter your sixth week wondering if anyone has even noticed your world class writing.

What you need is a Blog Boost.

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If you are even slightly serious about running your own blog the last place you want to be is Google's blogger.com and yet it is by far the single most popular blogging platform currently available.

This leadership is somewhat undeserved. Blogger.com lacks a significant number of tools and features that others take for granted (trackbacks, Bayesian filtration of comments, static pages, choice of XML feed format and threaded comments to name a few) and has the reputation of holding the largest collection of spam anywhere on the Internet.

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