Notable Nut Jobs
How The Google Police Nabbed Me For Paid Links
Friday, May 27th, 2011
So, let’s just start this off by all agreeing that I was a total noob dumbass. Great. Let’s continue. This is a long-windy post but I have to tell this story and get it off my chest. Get some coffee and prepare yourself. Now, let’s get into this true story that happened in 2008. THE [...]
Thank you nurse but I’ll take over from here
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Update, Web Creation UK have commented on the post and said they will be removing the blog and apologised, Wow… Am quite shocked / pleased to have found this! Darren is simply an employee at WebCreationUK and no idea how he managed to get his link on the foot of our site and we are [...]
SEO Company – Dicks of the Highest Calibre
Friday, February 5th, 2010
My blog, Explicitly.me is less than a month old. Its well known amongst my twitter following, but apart from a couple of posts going hot on sphinn, it isnt that popular outside my circle yet. In fact i put it together just for people I know, rather than to sell anything, or whatever rational reasons [...]
Stop Offering SEO Services You Bloody Dimwits!
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
You thought only Small Businesses got scammed by SEO Snakeoil Salesmen? These days every Tom Dick and Harriet wants to offer SEO services, and the worst offenders I have seen are Web Design agencies in the Big Brand Design world. I have witnessed some seriously daft mistakes and issues that make me wonder how stupid some people are. Simply adding a member of staff who knows “about” SEO does NOT qualify you to take on SEO for your existing clients.
I consult for a few big brand names on occasion, in order to get their SEO strategy in place – they normally have an SEO agency, or are looking to recruit one (I don’t provide ongoing SEO services, I only work as a strategist / consultant / creative concept person). More often than not, in cases when i am called in, the issue is because the SEO agency is a small department of one (or two) in a large Digital Marketing company.
The case of the trademark and the purple monkey
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
I realized recently that writing about dumb-asses and crap in the SEO world did nothing but deface the Fire Horse Trail (my SEO blog) and the final stroke was this garbage that was the latest episode of ‘Let’s trademark a known acronym, that some other monkey brain already tried and failed to do!”
Not only did I get duped into using the word SHIT in the heading, but even put a picture of this silly twit as well. Well holeeee-shit what a fuck’n waste.
What’s a geek to do? With all the garbage there is in this thing of ours, the blog would be nothing more than a freak show of me slowly drifting to madness and sinking in bullshit. So here we are…
