I feel like I have been living in a cave the past few months. Gone are the times when I attacked writing on this blog like a starved rat trying to get into a bin liner full of last nights kebabs. I have been busy link building for clients. I've developed a few techniques that are quite effective in getting results, actually when I say developed what I really mean is I had a … [Read more...] about Another one of those boring, "What the hell am I going to do in 2011" SEO blog posts
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How Not to Upsell your Product – or How WHSmiths and Waterstones degrade their brand
Recently I bought a great book on human behaviour and how to gently influence people from Waterstones book shop, called Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (a middle initial always makes you seem more authoritative). It looks to be a cool book, but what I most remember about the encounter is the interaction with the person handling my sale. After they took my order … [Read more...] about How Not to Upsell your Product – or How WHSmiths and Waterstones degrade their brand
Gonzo SEO
I hate aspiring writers who bang on about HST as if invoking the name of Mr Thompson will somehow make them writerly Gods. Take your heroes, burn them. Then spread the ashes on your toast as you wait for you latest bittorrent of Manga to download. However, for those who know what gonzo journalism is - and if you don't know, you need to read more - need to look at that … [Read more...] about Gonzo SEO
Garden Cabins go Mental on Adsense
Sometimes I wonder why people go nuts buying Adsense ads when there are far more effective ways to market your website. Showing me the same ad over and over makes little sense, especially when I am not interested in buying. So it is with Dunster House Log Cabins. I include a bit of adsense here to see if it does pop up. Of course, you may not be seeing the advert as it … [Read more...] about Garden Cabins go Mental on Adsense
Greek Coffee Fused with SEO Twitter Streams
An SEO should always travel. Even if just to load up the Google front page and view how the foreigners search for stuff. As I sit with salt baked onto my skin whilst I sip the surprisingly good, sludgy, Greek coffee, I think about the bubbles we exist in. How different people, who speak different languages, have different alphabets and different ways of eating, defecating, … [Read more...] about Greek Coffee Fused with SEO Twitter Streams
Why are SEO Blogs Really Boring
I find most other blogs in the industry I inhabit really boring. Mostly because they are not meant for me, their purpose for existence is not to entertain or inform me. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Here's what I notice though. A lot of people slag off blogs because they don't give them what they want, even when the blog is not meant for them. Just because you … [Read more...] about Why are SEO Blogs Really Boring