Wikipedia now ranks higher than Google for “PageRank”
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 14th, 2008 Published in: Google PageRank, Search Engine OptimisationIsn’t it about time that Google had a little look at how hard and fast Wikipedia is ranking in the SERPs? Wikipedia now ranks number 1 for the term “pagerank“, with the official Google PageRank page at 2. Not sure how long this has been the case, but aren’t we beyond the point where perceived [...]
Free your content by breaking the shackles of search engine optimisation
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 14th, 2008 Published in: Copywriting for SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamI think most of us know the difference between a quality article and a spammy optimised one, but there is a line in the middle that a lot of us tread. The line itself is very grey for most people, but personally I think there is a clear difference that is very easy to spot. [...]
There is no such thing as forum spam
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 13th, 2008 Published in: Humour, SpamOK this is a very old conversation that I had with someone on a forum of mine. After the thread was “finished”, I locked it and stuck it into a temp hidden forum where I archived stuff I don’t want to be public. Just stumbled across it today and thought I’d post it here for [...]
BigMouthMedia – all talk or deserved success?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 6th, 2008 Published in: Branding, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO AgenciesI’ll kick off things with disclosing that I don’t have a very high opinion of BigMouthMedia. I worked there Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 and left fairly disenchanted with the company having had more than one disagreement with the powers that be about various things and some blog posts which ultimately led to them threatening legal [...]
Jobsite.co.uk are forum spamming
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 24th, 2008 Published in: SpamQuick rant here. I run quite a busy careers site and we get a lot of spam on the forums. Mostly automated porn stuff, some other random bits and pieces as well. That’s just what you need to deal with when you run a forum. Over the past few weeks, the SEO for Jobsite.co.uk has [...]
Karma be gone! Reporting paid links to Google is a legitimate business move!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 16th, 2008 Published in: Google, Link Building, SpamDavid Wallace has a nice write up about reporting paid links to Google this week, which is based on the back of a poll by Blogstorm. Both posts have some interesting comments on them and while I don’t agree with some of them, the articles are well worth a read. The key areas that grabbed my [...]
Do it write! 9 SEO agency site copywriting sins…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 9th, 2008 Published in: Copywriting for SEO, SEO AgenciesJust before I start yet another post pointing out flaws here, there and everywhere, I’ll stick my hands up and say I’m as guilty of this as anyone else. Cliched statements and claims that tend to be found on SEO agency / consultant sites – stuff that is usually written as a sales pitch, but [...]