Let’s encourage our children to fall into the debt trap…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 2nd, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Rants n DramaSome 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 personally […]
VirginMedia vs BSkyB - Branson gets down and dirty with Murdoch
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 5th, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Rants n DramaDrama 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 companies […]
SEO agency ethics & why the industry needs a kick in the backside
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 1st, 2007 Published in: Rants n Drama, SEO AgenciesA 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 is […]
Scottish Power tossers
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 5th, 2007 Published in: Advertising, Marketing, Rants n DramaA 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 for […]
Google news description blunder
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 14th, 2006 Published in: Google, Rants n DramaJust 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:
The ethical debate…Touch Search Marketing
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: November 22nd, 2006 Published in: Rants n Drama, SEO AgenciesHaving 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 be me). […]
Heh gotta love the SEO community!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: November 20th, 2006 Published in: Link Building, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Speculationhttp://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 me laugh - it’s […]