I’m speaking at an affiliate conference, a4uexpo London in October, so I took a closer look at the main sectors that affiliates like to play in. I have it down to seven hot sectors. Hot affiliate sectors Gaming Forex Travel Mobile comms Dating Retail Financial Lets look at the most abstract and probably the most […]
Who cares that you like Digg – Stumbleupon – Reddit – Delicious, best
It confuses me when people in my industry start talking about their personal preference when it comes to content tagging sites. Why get so excited about how much you like the colours on digg than reddit and other such nonsense. In my industry we deal in eyeballs, offering up your personal opinion about your emotional […]
James Caan from Dragons Den Casts a Magic Spell on SEO
James Caan is best known for being one of the investors on the best thing on the telly at the moment, Dragons Den. Each week, knee trembling business people parade their money making ideas in front of a panel of people who make the Spanish Inquisition look like a 4 year olds tea party. Starting […]
Why SEO is Search Engine Scamming
Danny Sulliven has a post on Searchengine land called, Dear Fox News: SEO Is Not Search Engine Scamming (Unless You’re Scamming Yourself). It’s the kind of post where I read the first few paragraphs, think yeah yeah yeah and then go back to watching the Cartoon Network. But lets go back to Fox News, which […]
Where is Evan Carmichael?
So I got my monthly email from evancarmichael.com telling me I had posted no articles which had no ranking and was a big fat loser. evancarmichael.com is a online business site where invited people can write guest posts, I don’t know much about it as I am rarely in the mood to read it or […]
Seasonal SEO
If you want to rank for keyword groups around garden furniture or Christmas gifts, you need to take account of seasonal influences. But when should you plan to do your seo? Lets look at Google trends data for the keyword “garden center”. If you spotted the deliberate mistake, give yourself a donut. I will explain […]
Rob Kerry Speaks on Internet Liberalisation
I asked Rob for a quote regarding Internet Liberalisation as discussed over at Gandi, the ethical domain name provider. Most of the quotes went here, but I thought Robs’ was worthy of a post of his own. If you don’t know who Rob Kerry is and you are in SEO, hide your embarrassment and quickly […]
NO FT.com, That’s Not how You Game Digg
I submitted a story to digg about global banking which went hot, which I didn’t expect as there were no pictures of Megan Fox or explosions. But it got a front page no problem, which raises the question, do certain sites on digg get an artificial bump to the front page? But lets leave aside […]
What I would do to rank for “london safes”
Previously we identified an odd way to rank in google for london safes, and amused ourselves over a hot Fair Trade, Columbian, Arabica. It’s easy to say how not to do it. And where would most SEO blogs be without snarky criticism? But, how would you rank a web page or site for the keyword […]
How not to use Title Tags
I haven’t seen anything like this for a while. At the time of writing the title tag contained, “London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes London Safes”. I doubt any experienced seo did this […]