A recent report shows that credit card fraud continues to increase. We have unfortunately experienced this 1st hand recently! Heres a few tips to help you buy safely online.

 A big part of the problem is that more of us are buying online and the fraudsters exploit are growing confidence.

We recently setup a ppc campaign for an Iphone Unlocking software site (should of raised alarm bells I know!). It transpired that the site owner was paying his bills using our bacs details obtained from our invoices to him. It also came to light that the payment details he was giving us to pay Adwords with were stolen!

You can now follow my ravings on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SEOCHAP.

A relatively recent development in the world of SEO, that to a large extent has gone unheralded, is Google local search results and the huge impact that this can have for small businesses.

In effect there are now 3 ways to get onto page 1 of Google: