Category Archives: Search Engine Optimisation

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 [...]

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 [...]

SEO, Noodles and Financial down Turns

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 [...]

PageRank Vanishing!

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

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

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 [...]