For a couple of weeks I feel like I need a change. Moving away more and more from concentrating on making money for other people to making money for myself. I enjoy my work whether it be online marketing consultancy here @ Mercury Thread or my full time day job @ Equator (where we have [...]
Category Archives: Internet Marketing
SEO, Noodles and Financial down Turns
June 8, 2009 – 12:28 pm
As I’ve been off ill for couple of weeks I’ve been trying, mostly unsuccesfully to stay away from my PC. I did vow not to blog whilst at home – something I managed far too well for my own good I’m sure. So I’ve came back from being sick and MSN has rebranded, almost every [...]
Text Contrast – Website Testing Series
March 25, 2009 – 12:00 pm
It’s such a simple thing but designers are not per se website designers – in the same way that SEO people are not website designers. I can’t use photoshop to save myself but its important that all designers understand the basics of a webpage and having a good contrast between text and background is hugely [...]
PageRank Vanishing!
March 23, 2009 – 12:23 pm
I think I must be having a bad day today – my toolbar PageRank keeps vanishing! Had minor coronary already this morning thinking that someones site had vanished. Have I been cursed or is anyone else getting the same problems?
Checking Alt attributes – Website Testing Series
March 17, 2009 – 5:10 pm
One of the cool things in CSS is the ability to add styles to elements with certain attribute values – so you can style based upon the context of an HTML element. During website testing a useful thing to do is to test and make sure that images, where appropriate, have an alt attribute. Having [...]
Google.com – Any Time, Any Language, Any File
February 16, 2009 – 12:23 pm
I’m not on google.com very often – most of my clients work in google.co.uk as their main traffic driver (as they’re in the UK) but today I was running some tests in google.com and I started to get different lopoking result sets: So the bit in red is the part where I could refine [...]
LinkedIn Spamming
January 28, 2009 – 4:25 pm
Dear god I cant take it. Sometimes I just wish that SEO’s didnt have to ‘piss in every fountain‘. Sometimes SEO is crass and nasty and kills the entire usefulness of the content. Other times it makes me laugh so hard I fear for my bodily inegrity: See http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonybaxter SEO is mentioned 254 times (19.48% Keyword [...]
You, Me, Carpark, NOW…
November 4, 2008 – 1:21 pm
Always liked the ring of that phrase. Far better than ‘Hi, how are you?’. Anyway have been running about the web trying to work out WTF Google has been upto recently – results are so screwey its half cock up (think Chris Iwelumo against Norway) and half comedy show (Homer Simpson’s been left in charge [...]
Imagine Google being your Affiliate on your Programs
October 20, 2008 – 1:23 pm
There is no point in getting too angry too often. And when it comes to PPC I rarely get angry or feel any other emotion. Everything in PPC can generally be scoped, planned, projected, dissected to within an inch of its ROI driven life. To me personally that makes it a bit dull – its [...]