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, SEO Agencies, Search Engine Optimisation, 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 two [...]
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!Â
Yes, that’s only a few weeks when Gary Robinson, Marketing Manager for Jobsite.co.uk came here and said, “[we] by no means [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 been spamming [...]
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 attention [...]