Category Archives: Search Engine Optimisation

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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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 [...]

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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 client [...]

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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?

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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 a [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Usability | Comments (5)

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 my result [...]

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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 Density)*
I know [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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