Standing tall above all others is never easy when looking for a new job, especially in a field as competitive as Search. One enterprising SEM has taken out a Google ad on popular SEO sites and pointed it to a Google skinned CV

It certainly stands out, but lets hope the Google lawyers are looking the other way.

With a major new project in the pipeline I have been on the look out for a PHP framework to speed things along. I am no top coder, but Code Ignitor is working out great so far and my PHP guru seems to be getting on very well with it.

Code Ignitor is the brain child of Rick Ellis, who is also behind the successful and powerful Expression Engine content management system. Having used Expression Engine for a handful of previous high traffic web sites, I decided it was time to take a look at CI and so far I am very impressed. It is not only a very fast development environment, but is very powerful – basic blog system in 20 minutes – no problem!

Not only is it a great framework, but also produces very nice human / search engine friendly URLs by default.

We are looking to build a pretty major site in CI, so I will keep you up to date with how we get on.

Having just re-launched a handful of major youth brands online, the time has come to start traffic building.Obviously there is the usual affiliate, banner swap, newsletters and PPC routes – all of which are underway.� But MySpace is still meant to be the best place to steal eyeballs from when targeting the 16-30 demographic.� With this is mind I have just set up my first branded MySpace profile.

A colleague in the industry has recently launched a product and is magnificently gaining 10,000 impressions a day from their 6 week old MySpace profile, so it can be ignored no longer.

I will report back in a few weeks time with details of any increase in traffic…