The much-publicised, shadowy collective of politically-motivated hackers known as Anonymous has, apparently, threatened to bring down Facebook on November 5th, a date synonymous with uprising and revolt (for those who know their British history anyway). In a video posted on YouTube, a distorted voice claiming to represent the ‘hacktivists’ warns of the upcoming hack on [...]
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Are External Links Good For SEO?
External linking is one of those SEO protocols that often raises initial objections from clients; unaware of any benefits to linking out and swayed by misguided and ill-informed attempts to ‘sculpt’ PageRank, we regularly hear the same thing: “Why would I want to help someone else’s SEO by linking to them?” “Why would I link [...]
Win A Signed, Limited Edition Gig Poster
We’ve designed quite a few gig posters over the years, and we’re lucky enough to have worked with some fantastic and well-known bands. Over the next few months, we’ll be producing signed, limited edition runs of a handful of our favourite posters (around 10 of each). Some will be for sale, some will be given [...]
Win A LEGO Zombie ‘Barn Attack’ Scene
After our competition to win one of the LEGO Zombie Hunters from our Night Of The Lego Zombies post was won by Mike Mahanay from Portland, OR, we’ve decided to run the second giveaway over the next two weeks – giving away our LEGO Zombie ‘Barn Attack’ scene. The prize features our custom-built crumbling barn, [...]
ICANN Approves New Top-Level Domains
The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently approved the addition of new Top-Level Domains (TLD’s), which will drastically alter the way the internet domains are structured. Previously, standard TLD’s were used for websites, basing them on a .com, .co.uk, .net (etc) domain depending on either the type of website (.tv for [...]
Google Updates Toolbar PageRank
Yesterday Google updated toolbar PageRank (TBPR), with many sites seeing a change over the last 24 hours. Whilst the majority of SEO’s (rightly) don’t pay too much attention to TBPR anymore, it’s notable purely as it’s been a considerable amount of time since the update of this kind from the search giant. The reason most [...]
Win A LEGO Zombie Hunter
We’ve had some great responses on our Night Of The Lego Zombies blog post, which has proved our most popular blog post so far. The customised LEGO zombies and zombie hunters are now gathering dust and taking up space in our linkbait development room, so we’ve decided to give them away to our readers. We’ll [...]
World’s Longest Infographic?
Our design team has been extremely busy over the last couple of months producing infographics for clients ranging from the NHS to Kelkoo. One of our most recent projects was an infographic brief for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Wales; visualising huge sets of data from their ‘Inequality In Wales’ and ‘How [...]
Learn To Fight Like A U.S. Marine [INFOGRAPHIC]
Ever wanted to learn how to fight like a United States Marine? Well now’s your chance to learn with the first in a series of infographics being produced by the Designbysoap team. Feel free to use or repost this infographic, just please link back to the Designbysoap website or Twitter account if you do. Part [...]
The Night Of The Lego Zombies
When I’m putting together my monthly work schedule, I love writing down two words: Linkbait development. That basically means I get to spend the day doing whatever I think is cool or interesting and trying to turn it into something creative, either for the Designbysoap website or for a client. I love it even more [...]
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