Link Exchanges / Being An Ass

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 14th, 2006 Published in: Link Building, Marketing, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam

Some people seriously don’t have a clue.  Where in the world of logic does it seem like a good idea to try and blag links from people by suggesting that they are in error?  Do people actually fall for that?
Eg…
Dear Webmaster,
We can no longer find the reciprocal link to our site on your site.  As […]

Link building gone wrong

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 19th, 2006 Published in: Google, Link Building, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Spam

Had a guy start an Internet arguement with me a while back - I deleted his spam from my forums, he copied my content and whatnot - all very lame.  Was slightly annoyed at the time (as he started targeting the same phrases as me on his own site).  But I have a low attention […]

Ask TV ad - Bigfoot

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 18th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Ask, Google, Marketing, Public Relations

Available to watch online, the new Ask TV ad is short and fairly quirky.  It features Bigfoot using Ask to find out how to impress girls.  Not entirely sure that Bigfoot is the typical Ask user (heh, well you never know!) nor that a search engine could help a hairy, 8ft beast pick up a hot […]

Kill teh spammers!

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 16th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam

Some people really annoy me and those people are usually spammers.  I’m not talking about autogenerated sites / keyword stuffing / whatever - I can ignore that (and am at times secretly impressed + jealous of the technical skills of the people behind it).
What bothers me is stupid spammers.  People who don’t really have a […]