Category Archives: Internet Marketing

How to resize a webpage to fill an iframe

My coding skills are a bit out of practice these days – I hack about in PHP a fair bit but in terms of CSS I need to brush up. So when someone said to me – can we resize a webpage into an iframe so we syndicate the content I thought no prob. And [...]

SEO WARS : Retro SEO Satire Flashback Video

This just made me roflcopter : had forgotten all about it. Fantomaster Vs Rand Fishkin My Favourite part : Rand Fishkin : “I use interesting content to generate links” Fantomaster : “you are not my child”

Kick Ass Link Development needs Kick Ass People

I’m so tired of the first rule of SEO fight club being ignored. Maybe it’s the whole concept of community not being what it once was. I have a tight knit group of friends who I share stuff with (the things I would never put on this blog or be for general consumption) and there [...]

Google Losing Pages and Losing my respect

If it weren’t for the fact that everyone used Google I’d be in a position not to care about it. But unfortunately I’m not in that position and currently I’m getting fed up with it. Google Losing Pages – in the last couple of weeks I’ve seen more and more pages being ‘lost’ by Google. [...]

Banner ad style links are all the rage – and enraging

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. [...]

Sweet, another SEO in Falkirk

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 [...]

Google homepage background image – Bing style #fail

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 [...]

Huge arrows on PPC sitelinks in Google

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 [...]

Explicit Web Podcast

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 [...]

What the Yell are you upto!

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 [...]