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 [...]
Category Archives: Link Building
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 [...]
Abuse your PPC to make more money in SEO
August 2, 2007 – 1:09 pm
After years of looking down my nose at PPC and seeing it as cheap, easy and little more than a bidding war that burns cash faster than the KLF on a beach I’ve came to the conclusion I was right. Maybe not the derision I feel for PPC but certainly the rest. The change has [...]
Google Backlinks by Data Centre
August 2, 2007 – 7:52 am
Have just been hacking away at back link stuff in Google for the basis of monthly reports and I keep getting multiple result sets for each back link query! AAARRRRGGGHHHH Below I’ve posted a list of Data Centres that I use for checking across the web. I got his list from another website a while [...]
How’re your Google Back links Looking
July 31, 2007 – 8:04 am
Ok Google Back Links are one of the most inexact forms of monitoring your IBL (Independent Back Links). But they have updated today. So get down to Google and start hammering in your link: commands like no ones business. If you want to get something better have a look at signing up for Google Webmaster [...]
Intelligent SEO Research Tools
July 25, 2007 – 1:14 pm
Every day I’m hacking Google, MSN or Yahoo! for things that will make my life simpler. So I thought I would stick some in here for todays post. Oh and they’re also free – I do have some paid for things and things I’ve built maybe another day I’ll give these up! Keyword Research Keyword [...]
Yahoo! Site Explorer Gone
July 12, 2007 – 2:29 pm
Colin, of www.boydofayrshire.com fame, has just informed me that Yahoo! Site Explorer has gone. I was on it this morning so I know it was there, no longer I’m afraid. IF you got to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com you are redirected to http://search.yahoo.com/search/options. You can still get the results in XML format from the website using the advanced [...]
Viral Marketing – John Smeaton
July 2, 2007 – 3:51 pm
Sometimes you’ve gotta love the web. On Friday I got pissed in Glasgow. On Saturday I picked my car up and on the way home heard about the heroics of one man at Glasgow Airport – John Smeaton. Little did I know that my viral marketing brain was running low on power. If I had [...]
Getting Links to Your Blog
May 16, 2007 – 11:45 am
One of the best ways to promote your blog is to get links into it. I’m sure you know the importance of getting links for anything on the internet so I won’t bore you with it all again. Just now I am doing tests to a number of blogs in ways of getting links. I [...]
Google, Glossaries and Good Links
May 11, 2007 – 11:59 am
Google, Glossaries and Good Links I love glossaries – I know that may sound a bit strange but they make my life easier. If I’m asked to optimise a site, especially a technical site, a glossary can help me effectively understand your products, the same is true when I want to buy something. What is [...]