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There was a programme recently on television (Real Story: BBC One, Monday, 14 August) which highlighted a real security problem with old computers.  That problem is that the hard disk can contain highly confidential information which can be easily retrieved by an unscrupulous person at a later date. There is an article on the BBC website which goes into quite a lot of detail.

If you take an old computer to one of the recycling centres in Essex it finds its way to Nigeria where for a very small amount of money the hard disk can be purchased. Data is easily retrieved even from deleted files. To make matters worse many faulty hard disks can be coaxed into life and the data extracted.

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When you buy a domain you may well decide that a .co.uk domain is what you want. To be on the safe side you buy the equivalent .com domain at the same time.

So now you own domain.co.uk and domain.com. Ok that's easy you just forward domain.com to domain.co.uk. Easy, job done!

Maybe not quite as we shall see later on.

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If you are not careful you can spend a lot of money on a website and get very little or no benefit from it. In fact, your new website can hurt your business without you even realising.

Some of the technologies/techniques that can be used to create websites are best avoided. Some like the plague actually.

Search engines like text and anything that hides text is going to make your website less effective. Below I will list some of the main ways that you, as a site owner, can shoot yourself in the foot by making the text less accessible.

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1. Print advertising is loosing its effectiveness.
2. Print advertising is very expensive relative to web advertising.
3. You can build a presence on the web out of all proportion to your size.

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