Ebay Fined For Allowing Fake Goods

July 1st, 2008

About time really. I don’t trust anyone on there. It is definitely “buyer beware”. But then if you really think you can get a Luis Vuitton bag for £3 you are a bit of a muppet anyway.
Ebay Fined £30M for fake goods

Posted in Industry

Mark All Emails as Read in Gmail

June 27th, 2008

I use a Gmail a lot and quite often I send myself lots of information as it makes a nice central storage point for wherever I will be.
It can be quite annoying though when you have loads of unread emails, which can be pretty off-putting. Gmail only seems to allow you to select emails with [...]

SEO Roadshow 2008 - Limerick

June 20th, 2008

It’s now official…..
SEO Roadshow 2008 is a go project
Miss it (unless you have real reasons) and you are a tool!
See you there, can’t wait.
Rich

Posted in seo events

I dont wanna be a gimp!

June 19th, 2008

I friends dog has mashed up it’s leg. Apparently this could render the poor pup a long term gimp. Whilst gimping about ain’t that bad I am not sure it is the life for a dog.
Take a look and more than anything, give it a small digg (I don’ mean kicking it):
Help Da Puppy

Posted in Uncategorized

Brand Bidding and Closed Groups - A Step in the Right Direction?

May 9th, 2008

There has been a lot of talk about closed groups and the opening up of brand bidding. Many, including mate Doug Scott have been getting their truncheons in a turmoil.
If you don’t know what sanctioned brand bidding is, it is where merchants allow you to bid on their brand terms. eg :
Next
What is different about [...]

Posted in PPC

Protect Your Website From Hackers

April 28th, 2008

OK OK, I know if a real hacker wants access to your box with your little wordpress site on it, it is curtains, but there are many things you can do to make it a little more difficult, especially for script kiddies
who can do a lot of damage.
There is a blog that I read, [...]

Posted in Tech Stuff

Red Bull Sucks Ruling - The Bull Wins

April 23rd, 2008

Red Bull win the battle over redbullsucks.com and make Carl Gamel have to hand it over to them.
This is an interesting result especially in the hotting up sector of reputation management.
“Thus, the Panel concludes that a domain name is ‘identical or confusingly similar’ to a trademark for purposes of the Policy when the domain name [...]

Posted in Industry

Gimpy’s Keyword Density Analyser

April 18th, 2008

It’s been an eon since I promised myself to get this Keyword Density Analyser up and running.
Take a look at the options available from only including certain tags in the mix and adding your own stopwords.
It does not look the prettiest in terms of columns, but it is a fine bit of programming. A fine [...]

Posted in Seo Tools

Google Should Embrace Web Standards and Improve the World

April 15th, 2008

I have always bleated on about website standards and how accessibility can and should be incorporated in any SEO programme. It stands to reason that you will have to do some on page SEO, therefore why not do the accessibility at the same time.
Google could flip the whole web for the better simply by including [...]

Posted in Search Stuff

Debris Flash Game

April 12th, 2008

A good friend of mine is a mobile phone and flash game developer. He showed me his latest one and I said I would post a link to it especially since it amused me so (sad like that I am). It has some rather amusing sound effects.
Go on, kill five minutes…..

Play Debris AKA Log [...]

Posted in For Fun