Sony / Zipatoni and bollocks web marketing
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 13th, 2006 Published in: Branding, Link Baiting, SEO Agencies, Spam, Viral MarketingHat tip to DG for this one – Sony hired a marketing company to churn out a shitty fake “fan site” for the PSP on the run up to Xmas. Just reading the story churns my stomache, but when I actually had a look at the site I laughed my ass off. OK Sony. So [...]
Like the pot calling the kettle black (hat)!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 23rd, 2006 Published in: Search Engine Optimisation, SEO Agencies, SpamA recent “article” posted by the boffins at Bigmouthmedia explains to users the benefits of using CSS for SEO and finish off with some great advice (emphasis added by me): “But, everything that is good always can be abused. Certain SEO professionals can use XHTML and CSS to hide text on a page so it isn’t [...]
Forum spam posts
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 15th, 2006 Published in: SpamI run a couple of forums and naturally I spend quite a lot of time deleting autogenerated spam posts. I’ve seen quite a change over the past year though – one lot of spam posts come in joke form and half the time (to the uninitiated) they even get some positive responses and aren’t removed! [...]
Newbies, wannabes and fools
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: August 6th, 2006 Published in: Marketing, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamJust a little rant about the obtuse behaviour of those who think they know it all but in reality don’t know much about anything. While I’m happy to contend that a little arrogance is both healthy and that in the past I have probably been guilty of more arrogance than I warrant, I still feel [...]
Cutts answers SEO questions on video
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: August 1st, 2006 Published in: Google, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, Spamhttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-answers-on-google-video/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/more-seo-answers-on-video/ Fairly interesting (the 6 videos take about 30 minutes to watch in total. Matt dispells a few SEO myths such as bad code affecting SEO efforts and delves into the qualities of a good site. Worth a watch. MG
OK search engines, you want to fight spam?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 24th, 2006 Published in: Ask, Bing, Google, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam, YahooSimple solution. Well for part of the problem anyway. Sparked from a discussion on Threadwatch, here’s a thought for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. Kill the SEO agency. Sure, they no doubt spend a load on PPC and it could very will be killing off a reasonable source of business for you, but hey – [...]
Forum spammer – follow up
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 12th, 2006 Published in: Public Relations, Rants n Drama, SpamHad an email from the guy who spammed one of my forums a few months ago. Interestingly he denied any SEO-focused attempt to spam and suggested that it was a piece of ill-conceived market research. Still haven’t decided if I’m gonna publish his email on the thread though. I guess I should to be fair, [...]