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Month: June, 2008

Social Media Marketing - What’s the Point?

Social media marketing is tricky, and a lot of people don’t fully understand the positives and negatives of integrating it into their businesses. I’m going to explain how your website will benefit from embracing social media.
The primary reason we work in social media is to get links. Clean, Google friendly backlinks.  It’s possible to generate [...]

10 Successful Google Bombs

Below is a list of 10 successful Google Bombs that I’ve come across in recent years. Some of you may even remember them from when they were active. So in no particular order, we have:
1. “More evil than Satan himself” brought up the Microsoft homepage.
2. “Dumb motherfucker” linked to a site selling George W. Bush-related [...]

Link Baiting vs Link Building

I’ve spoken to several people recently who don’t know whether they should go down the link building or link baiting road.
I’m going to try and outline the strengths and weakness of both techniques in this article.
Link Building:
It can’t be disputed that good quality link building is fantastically effective, anchor text controlled link building really can’t [...]

Google Delivers Better ROI than Major Sport Sponsorship By a Mile

Formula 1 (F1) is the highest class of open wheel racing and is a very popular motor sport in Europe, which is becoming globalised. Each seasons eighteen races will be watched by more than a billion viewers. It is also a multi-billion dollar industry. For those in the USA who are less familiar with [...]

SEO Will Make You Rich

Hands up if you’re tired of people droning on about how SEO is dying and in a few years there won’t be a need for it anymore.
The fact is, unless the world ends, SEO will never die.  However, SEO is getting and will become almost impossible for the majority of people. Google’s algorithm is getting [...]

A Comprehensive List of the Top Social Networking Sites

I’ve prepared a comprehensive table to reference most of the major Social Media sites on the Internet at the moment. Instead of just focusing on the top three or four, try and leverage some of the smaller sites which maybe a little more relevant to what you are trying to publish.
Granted, they may only [...]

Google Flies the Rainbow Flag

A potential client approached me wanting to promote his gay marriage website, I searched on Google for “gay marriage” and was surprised to see that Google is experimenting with its pages. See image below.

 

Who does Matt Cutts follow on Twitter?

Matt Cutts follows very few people on Twitter compared with most, and I’ve compiled a list of who he follows. Some of the people on this list are some of the most influential people on the Internet, especially in SEO circles. If you’re on this list and reading this post, then consider yourself a success. [...]

Linkbait Success Without the Social Networks

I was inspired to do a post on how to linkbait without using the social networks. That means not submitting to Digg, Reddit or any other of the big network sites and still having your piece go viral.
Too many people see the social networks as the only key to their success. If you spend several [...]

Digg Error - Promoting Illegal Porn

Digg went down for about thirty minutes today. During that time an “out of service” message was shown. I clicked on one of the links as shown by the red arrow. Story continues below…

The link was referring people to a hacked blog, and this blog had hundreds of spam porn links, some of them offering [...]