SEO Reading List

February 16th, 2008

I have had a few projects that have taken me away from the SEO world more that I would have liked. I am getting those finished off and I have some great plans starting to unfold. Many of which I can’t post about.
Any getting to the point, in this game as it is, you need […]

Posted in Search Stuff

13 SEO Footprints to Avoid

February 15th, 2008

Lots of people go on about footprints and how to avoid them, well there are oodles of things that the bad people (Google) can do to find your sites, which you may or may not be linking together in a sneaky fashion.
I have seen Data in Star Trek and I get the idea that patterns […]

Posted in Search Stuff

Buy.at sold for £50M?

February 5th, 2008

Looks like those folks at buy.at have sold to AOL for a figure around £50M**.
Nice work and well done those folks up in Newcastle.
** Grape vine figures at this stage.

Posted in Industry

What do you do when search revolution happens?

November 12th, 2007

I was speaking with DaveN earlier about his trip to Live.com and the way things seem to be moving. Moving away from a link based algo and into something all the more personalised.
Link based algo’s have been with us for some time and I even remember the days before them (they were cool btw - […]

Posted in Search Stuff

Catch All that Traffic with Extra DNS

November 8th, 2007

OK, I have been uber busy on a few projects of late, some offline as well as online but I had a meeting the other day and said something that I thought was obvious but few people actually do it.
I am of course referring to catching mistypes of the www.
No I like to catch non […]

Posted in Search Stuff

Fast Uniform Linux Install From Batch File

August 16th, 2007

I used to look after a number of servers and we were forever having grief when they got messed up due to new package installs and testing (used to drive me mad actually….flaming coders).
So quite often they required a good old fashioned cleanup. Well it used to get on my tits that when set up […]

Posted in Tech Stuff

New SEO Meeting Forum From SEO Circuit

August 14th, 2007

This has been lacking for some time, but the old timer 4eyes has had a hand in the setting up of a forum specifically aimed at meetings and SEO type events.
Before long this will be the place to suggest meetings, from big, large scale events to the 3 blokes in a local pub who can […]

Posted in Search Stuff

SEO Myths

August 13th, 2007

I was reading Joost’s blog over the weekend and he was talking about Wiep’s post about Google SEO Mythbusting and I could not help but think about what my PhD supervisor used to give people grief about….statistically sound sampling.
Well this isn’t me being provocative, I don’t know Wiep but Joost does and having met him […]

Posted in Search Stuff

Gambling SEO Job in Spain

July 30th, 2007

If any of you young un’s fancy getting some good experience and working with some top bloke then take a look at this job:
SEO Job Spain
Make no mistake, the two guys you work with will take the piss out of you, in true British style but you will learn lots and be in sunny Spain. […]

Posted in General Musing

Limit entire account total spend in Adwords

July 24th, 2007

Looked around, looked looked looked, but I cannot see any way where you can set a combined daily budgets but then set an account override so that when it reaches a certain figure.
For example, say I never want to spend more that £20K in any one month, but I want to churn to that, but […]

Posted in PPC