Monthly Archives: January 2010

Tenders, eastenders and the chameleon search is still awful

January 22, 2010 – 4:11 pm

Over the past couple of weeks there has been discussions going on around the way that Google.co.uk result sets are being formed to do with “search engine optimisation” and “search engine optimization”. Two of the better posts come from Sean @ Hobo and Andrew Girdwood from BMM (yes they’re dofollow links to competing sites – [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Blogging, google | Comments (1)

What the Yell are you upto!

January 21, 2010 – 11:29 am

There are some days when I start to hate the ways of the online world, and Colin (who’s used to work with me over the  Equator SEO company and is now working for himself over at Boyd Digital) just posted about the hassles and pains he’s been having with Yell. Basically wasting his time with [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Internet Marketing, Link Building, Search Engines | Comments (0)

Thanks to the Guys at NY Deli Glasgow

January 21, 2010 – 10:45 am

Quick post to say thanks to the Guys at the NY Deli in Glasgow for delivering the SEO team breakfast. Office delivery for food in Glasgow – simple concept, but no one else does it. They’re also launching online ordering too which should make a fantastic, healthy change from the Dominos pizza we seem to [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in General Daftness | Comments (0)

Another example of Google Local being rubbish

January 20, 2010 – 5:16 pm

It is to Google eternal disservice that the local results for queries delivers such utter rubbish within its result set – too much rubbish. People who are not helping me get to useful data filling up the entire system or trying to get affiliate commissions just wasting what can be a really useful service.
I’ve just [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in google, google local | Comments (0)

World of Sofas delivery problems (Falkirk)

January 14, 2010 – 12:32 pm

As you have may guessed I’m going to rant here – not going to be about marketing I’m afraid just a good old fashioned seriously annoyed with a company rant. Here we go on World of Sofas.
Ordering a Sofa @ World of Sofas, Falkirk
We went in at the start of October and decided to order [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Shopping | Comments (1)

One hundered pushups – we’ll see

January 12, 2010 – 11:50 am

Ok Mr Bontana has once again managed to get me to agree to something stupid. This time its pushups. I can see the pain on the horizon already but as I am getting married and need to shift some of the winter insulation for my wedding pics am going to embrace the pain and work [...]

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