Dmoz admit they’re Nazi dictators
It’s been thought for years, but today Dmoz finally admitted that they are Nazi dictators, ruling their own directory with an iron fist and a collection of pork sausages. They showed their true colours this morning when their mother tongue, German, was emblazoned on their website. Read More →
Copy edit your text BEFORE you email thousands
This may sound obvious, as it should, but it’s often a good idea to copy edit your text BEFORE you send an eshot to thousands of subscribers. We all make spelling errors, typos are a fact of life, but in the world of marketing when you make a spelling error on an advert for a product how can you expect someone to trust the product, particularly when the product is a book??? The latest webproworld email featured an advert for a book promising...
SES New York is on now
The SES New York SEO conference is in full swing now, and in the true tradition of SEO professionals we haven’t bothered going. According to the conference website you’ll learn the following information: How search engines list web sites for free and through paid placements How to get free “organic” traffic by building a site that pleases search engines and your visitors How to efficiently purchase listings guaranteed to...
Latest Posts
Spam still works it seemsAs hard as Matt Cutts and his spam team try to preach the good word of what you should and shouldn’t be doing, there are always examples of woeful websites getting away with it and ranking #1 in...
Worst PPC ad ever?Is this the worst PPC ad ever? No, we don’t mean the one for reuters.co.uk, we’re referring to the advert for www.metro.co.uk. Just what possessed them to compose the ad text “Weird Strange”??? They...
Why advertise SEO on PPC?I’ve always been bothered by the fact that many Internet marketing firms pay for sponsored links on keywords such as SEO and Search Engine Optimisation on Google Adwords. It seems the height of irrelevance...
SEO Ninjas might have to move domainsAh, it seems we may be losing our domain name due a certain Mr James Welch. When we registered this domain last year we used his name and contact details in order to remain anonymous, seemed like a good...
Don’t talk SEO, do SEOIf there’s one thing that I hate in the world of SEO, it’s SEO forums. Sure, they can have the odd bit of useful information and occasionally some valid discussion will derive from them, but...
SEO company hides links on client websiteWe all know that hiding links is bad. Google often tells us this. When you hide links you get banned. Very naughty. When an SEO company hides links you’d think they’d know better. They should,...
Ask.com to give up on search, about sodding timeIt’s been suspected for some time and as of yesterday it looks almost official; Ask.com has given up on Search. All that money on advertising, all that development on a new interface, and that design…...
Interview with Ray TheakstonKirsty McCubbin has published an interview with UK affiliate Ray Theakston on how he started as an affiliate and what tips he has for others. The stand out moment of the interview for me is when Ray mentions...
A use for Stumble Upon traffic? By crikey whatever next???In January I posted a rather dismissive post about Stumble Upon and how the traffic it brought to your websit was utterly useless. I know, I was in a bad mood, it happens. I stood by what I said though....
Reality TV show for AffiliatesEver wanted to be on the Apprentice but didn’t think the selling used cars or organising wine parties was quite right for you? Well now, if you’re a budding (or even leading) affiliate there’s...
Posts
