Staff got some time on their hands? Here’s some SEO related bits n’ pieces they can handle
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 7th, 2008 Published in: Blogging, Link Building, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing, Traffic GenerationSomeone asked me the other day what their staff member could be doing to help with SEO as they had some spare time on their hands. While there isn’t really a perfect answer that will fit any business, these tips should be useful on the whole (not in any particular order)…
When does local SEO targeting become doorway page spam?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 1st, 2008 Published in: Branding, Copywriting for SEO, Local Search, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO Agencies, SpamI’ve been keeping an eye on several SEO related discussions on small business forums lately, and to be perfectly honest some of the “advice” being dished out by self proclaimed experts is somewhat disturbing. I’ve chipped in my 2c from time to time on the recent discussions, but having read back even a week or [...]
Google displaying an additional search box in SERPs
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 5th, 2008 Published in: Google, Local Search, Search EnginesCheck this out:  Pretty neat huh? I’m seeing the additional search box added to quite a few SERPs today – seems to be only for site names just now. I know TheBestOf use the Google Search Appliance for internal searches and I also see the search box on results for Youtube, Amazon and a few [...]
b10g looking for PPC specialists…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 3rd, 2008 Published in: PPC, SEO Agencies…and are asking candidates to sell themselves using 95 characters or less!  Great to see companies taking an interesting approach to recruitment! I’ve worked with Dave and Paul Carruthers before and they both know their stuff – well worth a look at the job posting if you are looking for work just now. Check [...]
Yahoo! Search to offer an open search platform
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: Local Search, Search Engine Optimisation, YahooYahoo announced today the launch of Yahoo! Search Experience, a 3rd party development platform to enable websites to include more information in Yahoo! search results. This new scheme looks pretty cool and seems to be somewhat of a competing service to Google’s Universal Search / Local Search / etc. Check out the screenshot on the [...]
BBPR (Band & Brown) email spamming for Jobsite.co.uk
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 18th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, SpamYeh that’s right. Only a few weeks after Jobsite’s SEO agency were spamming my forums, their PR agency (BBPR.com aka Band & Brown) are now spamming my inbox with emails promoting a new site launch! Lol, seriously! Yes, that’s only a few weeks when Gary Robinson, Marketing Manager for Jobsite.co.uk came here and said, “[we] by no [...]
Jobsite.co.uk forum spam follow up
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 15th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamFollowing on from my post last month about Jobsite.co.uk spamming my forums I thought I would do a little homework on the subject. Some may consider this a pointless exercise, and to a certain extent it is – it won’t change anything – I won’t get back the time I spent deleting their spam and [...]