Fused Nation

Some things really piss me off and I just added another thing to the list. Monopoly – targeted at ages 8 and above – have moved away from their classic paper money approach and brought the game up to speed with a credit card style format.  That in itself isn’t too bad a thing, although [...]

Drama in the UK cable market this week that has seen Richard Branson’s newly acquired VirginMedia (formerly NTL:Telewest) losing Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB channels on their service. The basic lowdown – the contract for Sky One, Sky News and Sky Travel ran out on March 1st so all 3.3 million VirginMedia cable customers lost these channels.  Both [...]

A bit of rant here – I know the whole ethics debate is tired and most people don’t want to read about it these days but I gotta throw in a word or two about it. I just did a freebie consultancy for a small business – the lady who runs it on her own [...]

A bit of a rant here, mainly due to the fact that everyone and his brother is jumping on the fuel conservation bandwagon this year. I don’t use gas, but I get charged for it.  Well I use a little – just the rings on my cooker (which I rarely use), but because I pay [...]

Just got a hat tip from Dave at Square Angle about this one.  The description has been changed now, but this appeared on the homepage of UK Google News:

Having a look around a few sites, I come across a SEO agency called Touch Search.  Their SEO page says: “Note: Touch Search Marketing promotes ethical search engine optimisation. We strongly object to black-hat SEO techniques that spam the web and could result in a permanent ban from search engines.” Indeed very noble (highlighting added [...]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3158871.htm Basically the original poster asks a question about duplicate content based on a blog post he read (I assume it was this topic from Pubcon): “No two links should point to the same page” Why not?  Anyone expand on this? A reasonable request based on a topic which is pretty complicated.  However the resulting “discussion” made [...]

Just a little rant about the obtuse behaviour of those who think they know it all but in reality don’t know much about anything. While I’m happy to contend that a little arrogance is both healthy and that in the past I have probably been guilty of more arrogance than I warrant, I still feel [...]

Simple solution.  Well for part of the problem anyway.  Sparked from a discussion on Threadwatch, here’s a thought for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.  Kill the SEO agency. Sure, they no doubt spend a load on PPC and it could very will be killing off a reasonable source of business for you, but hey – [...]

Had an email from the guy who spammed one of my forums a few months ago.  Interestingly he denied any SEO-focused attempt to spam and suggested that it was a piece of ill-conceived market research. Still haven’t decided if I’m gonna publish his email on the thread though.  I guess I should to be fair, [...]