Archive for June, 2008

Online Marketing Show Islington London

June 24, 2008

I’m at the Online Marketing show at the business design centre in London Islington, doing.SEO Consultations.
I just so happened to attend a Universal search aka Blended search presentation by Neil McCarthy CMSO of Latitude Group.
Neil’s presentation was entertaining, Neil had a good take on what it is that is required to do well in search [...]

Posted in marketing, oms 8 Comments »

If you are ever muzzled watch stuff like this and rejoice

June 22, 2008

Manufacturing consent. Nuff said.

Posted in censorship 1 Comment »

Old School SEO Sucks and is a waste of money

June 22, 2008

Old School SEO Sucks and in isolation is a waste of money
I won’t be telling anyone anything new when I say that today in 2008 the web is a very different place from the web we knew in 1998. Back then Google was pretty fledgling, and spent a lot of time and energy building relationships [...]

Posted in seo 11 Comments »

MSN Live Search Spam BOT Cloaked referrals

June 21, 2008

Hey Microsoft? What gives with all these dodgy false referrals? Do you think it’s a good thing to send zillions of false queries to website owners? Why are you doing this? Don’t you think it’s a little rude.
Back in December here Nathan Buggia said on the very issue of these cloaked referrals
Hopefully webmasters [...]

Posted in live search, msn live 4 Comments »

The cant rank for jack shit looky likes a penalty penalty

June 20, 2008

Interesting, it seems like a ranking penalty has been applied to yackyack.co.uk, that or some funky Korean hijack has had the effect of kicking this domain out of the rankings
Go try a search for any of my unique title strings and see what comes up! I tried, .co.uk, .com, .ie, .in, .jp google domains and [...]

Posted in funky ranking shit 5 Comments »