This post is here to serve as a warning about seoppc.co.uk and their business practices.
I was contacted recently By Jim Wilson at seoppc.co.uk. He asked me for a couple of business related things, I wasn’t interested and turned it down.
I then agreed I would let him publish a guest article on this blog in return [...]
Posted in Google on 15. Jan, 2010
Recently Google started forcing UK searchers to view the USA spelling of “optimisation”:
(image from Hobo UK SEO)
This was an extremely poor update from a user experience point of view - if someone types in “search engine optimisation” in Google.co.uk then Google shouldn’t assume they were searching for something which is a wrong spelling for this [...]
Posted in SEO Tools on 12. Dec, 2009
I was reading on the Seobook forums today and came across an excellent bookmarklet by Liam Delahunty and thought it was worth sharing.
Basically, it provides a condensed list of any Google results. Add it to your bookmarks, and once you do a Google search just click on it and it gives you a cleaned up [...]
Posted in Wordpress on 01. Dec, 2009
I intend this to be a internet first - a Thesis theme review without an affiliate link in it. I don’t think I’ve yet seen a 100% impartial review as they are all simply using it as a chance to drop several links to the generous 33% affiliate scheme.
The description of the Thesis theme on [...]
Posted in Link building on 26. Nov, 2009
I was reading about a service called Tynt over on Patrick Altofts blog and decided to test it. If a visitor to your site copy & pastes a chunk of your content into their blog it will appear along with a credit link. Explanation from Tynt’s faq:
Q. What is Tynt Insight? The short version…
A. Tynt [...]
Posted in Internet on 25. Nov, 2009
Research from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid has shown that 49,000 editors left Wikipedia in the first 3 months of 2009. This is a huge rise from 2008, when only 10% of that number left in the same time period.
The research author, Felipe Ortega , said:
“If the negative trend is maintained for too [...]
Posted in SEO on 24. Nov, 2009
I noticed BBC were making some search engine optimisation changes on their site, and the Guardian have written an article about it.
BBC News stories will now have two headlines - one of around 30 characters which will show on the BBC index pages (and mobile phones), with a longer title of around 55 characters which [...]
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