This made me laugh. First I heard of it, my son rang me and said the PS3 wasn’t working. I thought fair enough, I’ll take a look at it when I get home – it’s still under warranty anyway so not really concerned. Half an hour later one of my mates calls and says his [...]
Found some competitors to my workplace today with quite frankly astonishingly good reviews listed on Google Shopping. Sounds good, I mean if almost 300 people felt compelled to leave positive responses about their shopping experience, then I want to shop there too and become another satisfied customer. Or do I? I’ll let you draw your [...]
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It’s easy to be a bad company these days. Just don’t give too much of a hoot about your customers AFTER you’ve got their money for instance. I can think of quite a long list for that.
On the other hand, how about being deliberately deceptive, and actually publishing the fact that you are for the [...]
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Got this one today, the joke being this was arrived at from a link within Webmaster Tools itself. It would have been bad enough if it was in Google search results considering it’s one of their own pages. Obviously my favourite part is “Part of this page has been removed” – that would be the [...]
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My Taekwondo site had sat for years on a subdomain at http://tkd.tomcatuk.net. I felt the site deservered it’s own domain, so I did a little keyword research using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool.
Ran the keyword “taekwondo” through it, then sorted the results by global search volume. Top of the list (of course) was “Taekwondo” with [...]
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The allowed sites feature is great. As someone who’s been through the process of having his Adsense account disabled due to ads appearing on sites I don’t control (basically vandalism on the part of another webmaster) it’s great to be able to sleep at night in the knowledge my publisher ID isn’t being served on [...]
Bizarrely, a post I put up a while ago about press ups in Taekwondo started to appear on page one of Google.co.uk for the keyphrase “press ups”. If you’re doing TKD hopefully it was a useful, inspired and interesting read, but if you don’t, the odds are it wasn’t exactly what you were looking for [...]
An interesting topic was posted yesterday by the self proclaimed World’s Greatest SEO aka Darren Slatten on Widgets as linkbait. Matt Cutts said some interesting stuff in the interview with Eric Enge, but as usual the answers were, when analyzed, rather bland and really what he was saying was go back and read Google’s webmaster [...]
Just recently, MySpace changed the way they handle outbound links. So now, my MySpace page “effectively” doesn’t link back to my website anymore. they’ve taken this action in response to spammers abusing MySpace popularity with Google to manipulate SERPS.
Looks to me like it was too little too late! Google appears to have penalized MySpace pages. [...]
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This I find interesting. You can see on the right (hopefully) the link to my MySpace page using the anchor text “internet idiocy”. Just checked it an low & behold, my MySpace page comes up number 2 on Google for that search keyword. That’s “achieved” (and bare in mind I don’t give a monkeys wheer [...]
