Author Archives: mercurythread

Banner ad style links are all the rage – and enraging

July 19, 2010 – 2:45 pm

Link building makes me smile. It’s an art as well as a science and I’m always being nosey about what people are doing where and the ways in which so many people obfuscate links to users show them to search engines. Increasingly what I;ve been seeing that a banner style ad is becoming the rage.
One [...]

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Sweet, another SEO in Falkirk

July 9, 2010 – 11:40 am

Quick post – been busy in my new job (more of that next week). Anyway over here there is a wee fell by the name of Scott McLay (I stuck the facebook link in as it made me laugh when I saw the picture – looks like he should be wearing a spock costume from [...]

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Google homepage background image – Bing style #fail

June 10, 2010 – 8:18 am

So the Google homepage was lauded because it was hugley usable. Removed all superfluous nonsense to allow users to complete what they wanted to do at Google which was search. The white background made Google simple to understand. So I read on Twitter about some horrendous image thing kicking in over at Google; “Google’s turned [...]

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Huge arrows on PPC sitelinks in Google

May 28, 2010 – 9:25 am

I’m really starting to hate the PPC testing at Google – they call it usability improvements. There again I can’t blame ‘em for trying to improve the profitability of their products. Today I was searching for a few brands to see about getting some new life insurance. And I see the following when I search [...]

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Explicit Web Podcast

May 25, 2010 – 2:35 pm

Ok. I love podcasts. I can listen in my bed, on a train or in my car using my itrip and get some views from people who generally I trust but also other stuff. During my recent ramblings into HTML5 and some research I looked on itunes for some pieces to listen to. The coolest [...]

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The dangers of ReTweeting (it can make you feel like a wazzock)

February 28, 2010 – 1:49 pm

Sometimes I sit and read stuff on Twitter and just hit the retweet button without thinking about it much(assuming the idiocy of the post or something else would come through) and some times the daftness is mine.
Today I did just such a thing and within minutes I get DM’d asking what I was doing mentioning [...]

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Daily Record website makes amends

February 24, 2010 – 3:13 pm

Sometimes it’s good to take all the glory and today I shall whether it is warranted or not.
Whilst wandering through my Twitter a/c for the day – having read about Google doing credit card comparison and Google staff being sentenced for taking off a video of some kid beating up an autistic kid (way to [...]

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World of Sofas, Falkirk… continued

February 4, 2010 – 2:26 pm

In my previous rant about World of Sofas I was ready to lose it completely. I’ve given it some time and now I find it’s going to be April before the living room furniture is going to arrive! Just to recap I ordered at the start of October 2009 and my couch will be here [...]

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I still can’t manage to moderate a forum

February 3, 2010 – 4:02 pm

A couple of times I’ve thought about developing a forum – generally its about whisky – but I never manage to get to the final stage of launching it. Generally due to the spamming which I’m sure would take place.
Andy has bravely decided to launch one – silly boy – about his pet interests in [...]

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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 – [...]

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