Category Archives: Link Building

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Search Engine Optimisation | Comments (1)

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 [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Internet Marketing, Search Engines | Comments (0)

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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Link Love on Friday

August 29, 2008 – 11:20 am

I thought I should start posting here again as my other website is having a makeover. So in terms of todays post I’m just gonna stick in some links and blab a bit about why I like these sites.

WP Themes Free – Ronseal website (it does what it says on the tin) and gives you [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in seo | Comments (1)

Are Link Directories any use?

August 28, 2008 – 8:57 am

I’m going to test them and see
I’ve always used link directories. They’re quick and cheap ways to get links. But that’s the problem – if they’re cheap, easy and quick that means the links they deliver are usually of really low quality. Unless you’ve got a reasonably old website with a bit of good history, [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Blogging, General Daftness, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, google | Comments (3)

PageRank update due – woo hoo :p

July 25, 2008 – 10:38 am

Woo hoo a Pagerank update is apparently imminent. So that’ll give everyone something to talk about while I’m away. Have fun and please try not to kill anyone when the green pixie dust changes.  PageRank is dead anyway :p
I know some of you will be sitting rattling the future pagerank stuff @ SEO chat for [...]

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Whats been going on @ Mercury Thread?

July 25, 2008 – 8:21 am

Sorry for not posting for a while. Been dead busy and made some good inroads into all the accounts I’ve been battering into and thought I’d give an insight into what I’ve achieved in the last wee while. As I have a ‘real’ SEO job and do some stuff free lance (and I dont know [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation | Comments (1)

SEO Cheat Sheets and Guides

May 6, 2008 – 2:39 pm

This week I’ve been searching for some good cheat sheets to decorate my office with – and there was only so long I could stare into a picture of a New York Skyline. And during this week I’d decided that if Dick Dastardly and Mutley had used cheat sheets they would probably have caught [...]

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Social Networking – What is it good for?

April 29, 2008 – 4:27 pm

I’ve spent an age avoiding getting involved in Social Networking of any real note. I’ve always contributed to forums, stuck comments on blogs and wasted time on newsgroups. But recently I’ve been messing around researching what these Social Network things can do for me. The results have been surprising.
Social Network – Ning
At Ning you can [...]

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SEO Spam and Saving peoples jobs

August 10, 2007 – 2:06 pm

Ok. Was running a quick backlink check on some clients and a legacy client who I used to work for is in there. And there links jumped – nigh on doubled so I get a wee twinkle in my eye and start trying to work out why.
Lo and behold their new SEO company, the one [...]

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