Internet Marketing Blog » Blogging http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog Mercury Thread Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:45:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sweet, another SEO in Falkirk http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/sweet-another-seo-in-falkirk/2010/07/09/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/sweet-another-seo-in-falkirk/2010/07/09/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:40:20 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=265 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 the recent Star Trek Movie) who is an SEO in Falkirk (ok he’s in a village right next to Falkirk but he’s got an FK postcode so I’ll call him an optimiser in Falkirk).  Anyway he’s on the journey from Link Monkey to Link Developer to SEO => I’d say he’s more in the latter part of this search engine optimisation career progression judging by some of the cool ways in which I’ve seen him to be link building.

Anyway he’s battering up a new website all about internet marketing/SEO/links etc over at his new SEO Blog (check him out).

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/sweet-another-seo-in-falkirk/2010/07/09/feed/ 0 The dangers of ReTweeting (it can make you feel like a wazzock) http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/the-dangers-of-retweeting-it-can-make-you-feel-like-a-wazzock/2010/02/28/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/the-dangers-of-retweeting-it-can-make-you-feel-like-a-wazzock/2010/02/28/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:49:38 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=250 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 such a story. TBH I can’t remember RT it but ignorance is no excuse!

I get sent a link to an article on the SEOConsultants.com website – a website which has more stuff on it that I can keep up with TBH and the the value of their RSS comes into it’s own – and the horror hits home. I’ve just in some way endorsed the sort of b*****ds I continually rail against.

Cheers to PageOneResults for making me feel like a complete wazzock on a Sunday morning and teaching me a useful lesson – I must think before I RT! And TBH more than that. Hitting RT does not always assure that everyone knows why you’re RT’ing, and remember kids check out those you’re mentioning as the web’s a dangerous place, full of dangerous companies, doing nasty things and in the same way you wouldn’t link to a toxic domain containing crap hitting RT provides a social link to equally toxic stuff (it’s your rep on the line not just a domain).

Self flagellation over for today…. I hope. Off to do 100 hand written lines of “I must not hit RT without thinking”, “I must not hit RT without thinking”,”I must not hit RT without thinking”…

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/the-dangers-of-retweeting-it-can-make-you-feel-like-a-wazzock/2010/02/28/feed/ 0 Daily Record website makes amends http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/daily-record-website-makes-amends/2010/02/24/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/daily-record-website-makes-amends/2010/02/24/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:13:17 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=246 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 go the Italian court system) I saw Dr Aleks Krotoski mentioning that she had been labelled a he over at the Daily Record.

Did a quick search for the journalists name over in google with email, got an email address, sent email and quarter of an hour later it was changed :)

So duly I’m claiming all credit for them fixing it to a more correct sexual descriptor – using she!

Daily Record call the cute Dr Aleks a he :(

Daily Record call the cute Dr Aleks a he :(

I changed the Internet for the better – I believe – now back to some black belt ninja SEO (ok sumo SEO may be more appropriate but I’m sure I’ll start the diet soon).

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/daily-record-website-makes-amends/2010/02/24/feed/ 0 World of Sofas, Falkirk… continued http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/world-of-sofas-falkirk-continued/2010/02/04/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/world-of-sofas-falkirk-continued/2010/02/04/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:26:50 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=244 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 in April 2010.

They have offered to give me my deposit back – and the manager at World of Sofas was apologetic but it still doesn’t help me as a customer. He also acknowledged that their customer service had been woeful by them not giving me the correct information at any time – they found out before Xmas that it wasn’t going to be here but maintained it would be up to Xmas-eve for example.

Either I go and order a new suite (god knows how long thats going to take to turn up) or sit and accept that its all gone seriously wrong. And TBH I’m so angry at the whole thing I can’t face starting the debacle all over again.

  • There has been no written communication from the company on any of this. To me using the telephone is a way to back track every time. If nothing physically exists how can you prove it happened. I could go as far as recording our conversations but nmo doubt I’d get sued for not having played them a pre-recorded message before hand.
  • There has been no goodwill gesture from World of Sofas. I’m not looking for one but to not offer a single thing seems to place their business before consumers.
  • I have to phone them. At no point have they phoned when they promised to. Anyone would think World of Sofas were trying to get away from me.

Oh and did I mention their websites awful at finding anything. But I’m off topic. Am planning a party during April to celebrate my furniture being delivered. But I did that at Xmas as I wanted furniture for Xmas. And don’t get me started on the decorating that is planned for after the stuff is delivered from World of Sofas.

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/world-of-sofas-falkirk-continued/2010/02/04/feed/ 0 I still can’t manage to moderate a forum http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/i-still-cant-manage-to-moderate-a-forum/2010/02/03/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/i-still-cant-manage-to-moderate-a-forum/2010/02/03/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:02:48 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=242 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 everything (environ)mental. His Green Forum has already started to get battered by me – generally complaining about anything and everything. So good luck to him. I’ve probably already started the warning flares going off in his head. It’s in PHPBB so no doubt he’ll have to keep it uptodate to stop it becoming a mess of porn and Rx (I’m a pessimist after my experiences of a news engine about whisky).

L8rs

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/i-still-cant-manage-to-moderate-a-forum/2010/02/03/feed/ 1 Tenders, eastenders and the chameleon search is still awful http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/tenders-eastenders-and-the-chameleon-search-is-still-awful/2010/01/22/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/tenders-eastenders-and-the-chameleon-search-is-still-awful/2010/01/22/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:11:42 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=239 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 – I am in a good mood today). But for me the more interesting Google problems still remain in their textual analysis resulting in Chameleon search. Specifically to do with tenders – where I have a client that’s enduring a nightmare in terms of CTR from natural results on this term as a result of this intrusion into the SERPs.

Chameleon search – my complaints

So anyway you’ll have seen chameleon results messing up SERPs all over the place – and the ideas a good one. The idea being that if you make a mistype Google will see that you typed a query that is not misspent but due to the volume related to a similarly formed query it’ll place a ‘did you mean…’ response in the middle of the result set. So basically Google understands that “tenders” is a real word, that if a user has searched on it that you may mean that you want the result set for “tenders” but as the search volume for words similar to this, namely EastEnders in this case, they’ll insert a horrible nasty set of results in the middle of the result set – pushing who was at fourth down to eighth and so on. Nasty.

Optimisation versus Optimization and back to all that Jazz

Anyway to bring this all around and whine about Googles textual analysis a bit further for a while its been removing the did you mean if you search with geographic modifiers. So if you search for “search engine optimisation Scotland” or “search engine optimisation UK” you will see that the results remove the offending ‘z’ which has infuriated a number of folks.

And I’ve just noticed after writing this that the problems in Google appear to be sorted as regards the ’s’ and ‘z’ spellings isn’t it always the way. You write a wee blog post and the issue you mention is no longer an issue as someone has fixed it. Having said that my query for tenders is still returning a result set that is rubbish.

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/tenders-eastenders-and-the-chameleon-search-is-still-awful/2010/01/22/feed/ 1 Best comment spam in a while http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/best-comment-spam-in-a-while/2009/11/04/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/best-comment-spam-in-a-while/2009/11/04/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:59 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=208 Congratulations to the commenter who placed a link and the following as a commment

spain cheap european plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to lax
cheap round the world plane tickets
hot plane tickets
plane tickets to lebanon
flexible plane tickets
group rate plane tickets
cheap plane tickets military discount
plane tickets to cyprus
plane tickets to alabama
cheapest plane tickets to london
airplane tickets to italy
cheap plane tickets to israel
plane tickets to edinburgh
airplane tickets to london
cheap airline plane tickets greece
student plane tickets to europe
plane tickets to athens
cheap plane tickets to london england
great deals on plane tickets
student universe plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to madrid
purchase plane tickets online
ibiza plane tickets
cheap plane singapore tickets
plane tickets to bermuda
cheap airfare plane tickets
cheap plane tickets uk
nicaragua plane tickets
cheap airplane tickets in canada
plane tickets to barbados
student rate plane tickets
airplane tickets to australia
plane tickets to edmonton
cheap plane tickets to argentina
buy cheap hungary plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to africa
buy cheap plane tickets panama
worldwide plane tickets
spain really cheap plane tickets
spain cheap plane tickets hawaii
plane tickets to iraq
really really cheap plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to turkey
cheap plane tickets montreal
cheap airplane tickets in europe
cheap plane tickets to egypt
business class plane tickets
plane tickets to venice
plane tickets to berlin
compare cheap plane tickets
plane tickets to iran
cheap plane tickets to maui
cheap plane tickets to hong kong
plane tickets to bolivia
plane tickets to austin
plane tickets to key west
plane tickets to disney world
cheap plane tickets to south africa
cheap plane tickets to bulgaria
plane tickets to cambodia
cheap plane tickets to italy greece
expensive plane tickets
reduced plane tickets
plane tickets to georgia
cheap air greece plane tickets
looking for plane tickets
plane tickets to alberta
plane tickets to bora bora
cheap plane tickets to berlin
cheap plane tickets to new greece york
half price plane tickets
airplane tickets to california
plane tickets to maine
cheap plane tickets hungary hawaii
cheap plane tickets to new york city
plane tickets to belgium
plane tickets under 100
plane tickets to nepal
plane tickets to kenya
cheap plane tickets to new orleans
dirt cheap plane tickets panama
cheap plane tickets to nyc
plane tickets to austria
plane tickets under $200
northwest plane tickets
plane tickets to south korea
cheap plane tickets low price airfares
cheap plane tickets to washington dc
plane tickets to indonesia
pet plane tickets
plane tickets to tahiti
plane tickets to nashville
cheap plane tickets to greece
cheap domestic plane tickets
domestic plane tickets
plane tickets to montana
plane tickets to trinidad
kauai plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to poland
cheap airline plane tickets
really cheap airplane tickets
good deals on plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to new zealand
cheap plane tickets to korea
cheap plane tickets to vancouver
one way airplane tickets
plane tickets to finland
cheapest plane tickets to hawaii
bereavement plane tickets
cheap plane air tickets flights europe asia south america
plane tickets to pakistan
plane tickets to moscow
berlin wall cheap plane tickets
lowest price plane tickets
plane tickets to detroit
airplane tickets for less
plane tickets to ny
plane tickets on line
cheap overseas plane tickets
plane tickets to belize
plane tickets to venezuela
plane tickets to melbourne
plane tickets to utah
plane tickets to tampa
cheap plane tickets to rome
best deals on plane tickets
plane tickets to honolulu
plane tickets to south carolina
plane tickets to puerto vallarta
airplane tickets to las vegas
cheap plane tickets flights japan
cheap plane tickets to arizona
cheap plane tickets to manila
lax plane tickets
plane tickets to bangkok
plane tickets to sydney australia
cheap plane tickets to thailand
plane tickets to bali
singapore plane tickets
plane tickets to holland
last min plane tickets
cheap plane tickets and hotels
plane tickets under 200 dollars
plane tickets to taiwan
order plane tickets
find cheapest plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to peru
cheap discount plane tickets
discount plane tickets to hawaii
plane tickets to nigeria
plane tickets to dublin
plane tickets and hotels
plane tickets for college students
cheap plane tickets to alaska
air cheap plane tickets
plane tickets to ukraine
cheapest international plane tickets
plane tickets to miami florida
plane tickets under 200
cheap first class plane tickets
get cheap plane tickets
plane tickets to honduras
cheap plane tickets using
plane tickets to paris france
plane tickets to cabo
win plane tickets
save on plane tickets
asia plane tickets
cheap canadian plane tickets
plane tickets to calgary
plane tickets to norway
plane tickets to portugal
plane tickets to cabo san lucas
name your price plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to texas
cheap plane tickets to india
plane tickets for dogs
plane tickets to myrtle beach
plane tickets to aruba
plane tickets to virginia
budget plane tickets
plane tickets to nyc
plane tickets to washington
cheap plane tickets to france
discount international plane tickets
group plane tickets
plane tickets to panama
plane tickets to iceland
plane tickets to switzerland
plane tickets to el salvador
cheap plane tickets to ireland
plane tickets to london england
plane tickets to houston
airplane tickets for low prices
cheapest plane tickets to europe
cheapest plane tickets available
plane tickets to vietnam
airplane tickets to hawaii
pictures of plane tickets
plane tickets to oregon
plane tickets to madrid
$99 plane tickets
college plane tickets
airplane tickets for students
plane tickets to maui
sell plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to cancun
plane tickets to ohio
cheap plane tickets to jamaica
plane tickets to romania
cheap plane tickets to boston
military airplane tickets
cheapest plane tickets possible
cheapest plane tickets online
plane tickets to dominican republic
get plane tickets
emergency plane tickets
plane tickets to sydney
cheap plane tickets to england
plane tickets to washington dc
plane tickets to montreal
plane tickets to ecuador
plane tickets south america
new york airplane tickets
plane tickets to chile
$10 plane tickets
booking plane tickets online
airbus plane tickets
low cost airplane tickets
plane tickets to guatemala
plane tickets to ghana
plane tickets to new orleans
plane tickets to colombia
plane tickets for less
stand by plane tickets
plane tickets to manila
plane tickets to vancouver
hong kong plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to atlanta
cheap plane tickets to puerto rico
canadian plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to philippines
cheap plane tickets brazil
plane tickets to russia
plane tickets to fiji
plane tickets to cuba
plane tickets to argentina
plane tickets to poland
plane tickets to america
cheap plane tickets to paris
plane tickets uk
plane tickets to turkey
cheap european plane tickets
orbit plane tickets
plane tickets to north carolina
plane tickets to denver
plane tickets to bahamas
european plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to japan
name your own price plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to amsterdam
cheap plane tickets to tampa
cheap plane tickets for college students
plane tickets to sweden
cheap plane tickets to italy
airplane tickets to europe
plane tickets to toronto
plane tickets to atlanta
cheap cheap plane tickets
extremely cheap plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to toronto
plane tickets to new york city
plane tickets to beijing
red eye plane tickets
plane tickets to korea
cheap plane tickets to chicago
cheap plane tickets to miami
plane tickets to peru
airplane flight tickets
cheap plane tickets to australia
cheap airplane tickets for students
plane tickets to dubai
plane flight tickets
plane tickets to scotland
cheap plane tickets to china
cheap plane tickets online
cheap plane tickets to spain
refundable plane tickets
plane tickets to israel
plane tickets to tokyo
plane tickets to egypt
standby plane tickets
best plane tickets
international airplane tickets
plane tickets to rome
airplane tickets to florida
plane tickets to south africa
plane tickets to boston
plane tickets to arizona
wholesale plane tickets
best day to buy plane tickets
cheap airplane tickets online
cheap plane tickets to london
plane tickets to texas
low plane tickets
plane tickets for sale
plane tickets to africa
plane tickets to philippines
airline plane tickets
bargain plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to germany
purchase plane tickets
plane tickets to cancun
cheap plane tickets to new york
low fare plane tickets
cheap plane tickets to california
plane tickets to alaska
plane tickets to greece
plane tickets to miami
plane tickets to brazil
travel plane tickets
find plane tickets
plane tickets to puerto rico
airfare plane tickets
buy cheap plane tickets
plane tickets to new zealand
cheap plane tickets canada
plane tickets to china
plane tickets to tucson
plane tickets to thailand
super cheap plane tickets
plane tickets to oakland
plane tickets to spokane
plane tickets to india
cheap plane tickets for military
bid on plane tickets
plane tickets to portland
first class plane tickets
plane tickets to sacramento
lowest plane tickets
round trip plane tickets
affordable plane tickets
plane tickets usa
cheat plane tickets
plane tickets canada
plane tickets to france
plane tickets to england
cheap plane tickets to europe
plane tickets to spain
plane tickets to jamaica
cheap plane tickets to los angeles
cheap round trip plane tickets
plane tickets to paris
plane tickets to phoenix
cheap plane tickets to san diego
plane tickets to dallas
southwest plane tickets
dirt cheap plane tickets
student discount plane tickets
book plane tickets
low price plane tickets
low cost plane tickets
plane tickets to seattle
cheap plane tickets to hawaii
plane tickets to germany
plane tickets to los angeles
compare plane tickets
plane tickets to san francisco
plane tickets to san diego
plane tickets to ireland
very cheap plane tickets
cheapest airplane tickets
plane tickets to london
inexpensive plane tickets
plane tickets to italy
cheap plane tickets to florida
buy plane tickets online
plane tickets to chicago
plane tickets to japan
plane tickets to amsterdam
plane tickets to new york
cheap one way plane tickets
plane tickets to california
cheap plane tickets to las vegas
plane tickets to europe
military plane tickets
online plane tickets
military discount plane tickets
find cheap plane tickets
cheap plane tickets for students
airplane tickets online
plane tickets to australia
plane tickets to las vegas
really cheap plane tickets
one way plane tickets
plane tickets to florida
cheap international plane tickets
plane tickets to hawaii
student plane tickets
buy plane tickets
international plane tickets
cheapest plane tickets
discount plane tickets
cheap plane tickets

Well done spammer. Made my day

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/best-comment-spam-in-a-while/2009/11/04/feed/ 2 Small town Scottish Junior Football team live tweeting http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/small-town-scottish-junior-football-team-live-tweeting/2009/10/05/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/small-town-scottish-junior-football-team-live-tweeting/2009/10/05/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:42:34 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=195 Over at http://twitter.com/steadythebuffs Kilwinning Rangers have started to tweet live during games. Cool concept. Live commentary by Twitter – and its more fun than that you get at the BBC. 

If only Falkirk FC would do the same – would be an added value item for all of us who can’t make every game.

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/small-town-scottish-junior-football-team-live-tweeting/2009/10/05/feed/ 0 SEO Spammers beware http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/seo-spammers-beware/2009/10/01/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/seo-spammers-beware/2009/10/01/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:51:53 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=193 Remind me not to send unsolicited spam link exchange requests to pageoneresults website. I’d seen a link in his twitter updates,  http://Twuna.com/LEX/200909301, and got into a quick tweeting with him about it. He used the phrase “Link Monkey” at one point – which I regularly use is a non-prejorative and character building kind of way.

I think he meant it a little differently - http://www.seoconsultants.com/links/staff/ 

Absolutely amazing. Weel done to the guys at SEOConsultants for completely emlivening what was turning into a seriously crappy day. right off to finish the damn website that been annoying me – unfortunately it’s my day jobs website.

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/seo-spammers-beware/2009/10/01/feed/ 0 30 links for 30 folks and all I need is one Tweet http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/30-links-for-30-folks-and-all-i-need-is-one-tweet/2009/09/25/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/30-links-for-30-folks-and-all-i-need-is-one-tweet/2009/09/25/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:20:17 +0000 mercurythread http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=188 Tweet me for a link. All you need to be is an Internet Marketing company in Scotland and have a twitter account.

Click this link to tweet:”@tokyito I’d like a link to http://www.yoursite.com”

Cheers – will post list once I get thirty tweets

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/30-links-for-30-folks-and-all-i-need-is-one-tweet/2009/09/25/feed/ 0