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TicketMaster Sending Promotional Emails when I’ve Opted Out

Don’t you hate companies that disobey your opt-out request not to be sent any promotional material after you’ve made a purchase? Man it pisses me off, I think it’s completely disrespectful of your wishes and terrible customer service. Anyway, I bought a couple of tickets through Ticketmaster to see a show at the Oxford theatre [...]

Fantasy Housewife Shoppers Ruining Your Conversion Data?

If you own a retail store you may ask yourself why you get so many shoppers abandoning their goods purchases at the checkout. You may think you have a bug in the shopping cart system or a problem with the gateway or merchant. However, have you considered that many people shop and then abandon their [...]

Spammers Ruined my Stumble Upon Experience

Well Stumble is dead for me, sadly. I had a particular incessant spammer whom, each day would spam my StumbleUpon inbox to death. Each time I would want to Stumble, I would see the dry, boring “package tours to India” website. God, I hate it. The website in question is amustic.com and the spammers name [...]

World Online Marketer Rankings

Invesp runs a poll each each year ranking the top 100 Online Marketers in the World, I came 24th this year up a few places from last year and 2nd in the UK.

Cheers Invesp

Google’s Mysterious Indexing

I have spoken in the past about how Google’s best spam weapon was it’s indexing intelligence. However, I do believe that Google does miss out on good quality content due to it’s over zealous “this might be spam, I’m not going to index this” filter.
Whilst browsing around the Google webmaster help forums I found this [...]

Social Media with a Twist of Business

Social Media is still relatively new and not understood very well and being successful is still something of a “dark art”. I think a lot of “social media experts” consider themselves a kind of artist. They write or build something pretty creative (if it’s going to be successful) and then promote it. If they get [...]

Whacky Google Shakeup in the SERPS

Google is tweaking is algorithm as it does regularly, we seems to get one of these “large” shakeups every two one three months now, where the results are significantly mixed up.
However, I can’t believe what’s going on at the moment is going to last, the results are truly weird and have some irrelevance creeping in. [...]

Mauve Hat SEO

We had a conversation in the office on how to get certain widgets, gadgets or any other “viral material” viral. We discussed various explosive techniques which would ensure that the project would be a roaring success and would get a gargantuan amount of media attention.
We decided to call it “Mauve Hat SEO” - now [...]

How Google can reduce its paid link spam by 25%

I don’t know why Google hasn’t done this before, but it would be incredibly easy for Google to reduce its paid link spam. As we all know, Google is the master of FUD and has thus created a culture of fear amongst link buyers and sellers. Google and/or Matt Cutts could reduce the number of [...]

It’s been a while…

Hey everyone! Sorry it’s been ages since my last post, it’s just that I’ve been incredibly busy with work (you know how it is, right?) and stuff. I’ve not forgotten about this blog, so you don’t have to worry about that and I promise that I’ll post something great sometime soon.
In the meantime, I’m still [...]