*Final Update* Shutting down a site as soon as the community questions is a sign of a scam. The same way search engine submission is a scam, in our industry at the moment, SEO Verification is a scam. There is no real body or authority that is geared to give you that stamp. For …

Don’t Bitch About Your Results. This post is served best as a “double-scoop” on top of Goosh’s Hit & Run Snake Oil Salesmen. And, the opening parlays are much the same: The Email Subject: Great Organic Traffic Results, NO COST (actual email: names have been scrubbed) I have SEO & link building services company, have [...]

We still do the “forum” thingy, eh! You know where you go to a forum for years and work hard at establishing both credibility and reputation as you pass along what you know for free. Programming forums, SEO forums – whatever…you work hard at trying to help newbies and juniors to climb the ranks of [...]

Everybody loves the idea of search engine optimization.  Who wouldn’t want to rank number one for niche related keywords in Bing, Yahoo, and the grand daddy of them all Google!?  It’s an easy concept to understand, rank at the top and rake in all the money.  Yes it’s a very simplified analogy but this is [...]

I thought this tactic had long since died but it has reared its ugly head again – the “SEO” Cold Call Lie. You know how it goes: Salesman: Hi Sir, I’m calling today about your website Owner:  Oh, yes? Salesman:  How would you like to put your website in front of thousands of potential visitors [...]

Hiya kids… today we’re talking some bullshit of the highest order; a situation that almost epitomizes the misinformation that hounds the SEO world. This one is a long standing oddity that I’ve personally gone off on in the past. (most recently here) To make a long and redundant story short (I …

On many occasions when I take on a new client I have to introduce myself to the other specialists involved in the contract:  the web developers.  We don’t build websites ourselves as we like to specialise on the SEO and results.  Unfortunately, due to this stance, the introduction can go either one of two ways… [...]

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 [...]

There has been a significant amount of activity around this article citing compete.com’s research suggesting that Facebook has surpassed Google in terms of their very scientific “Directs more users to online hubs like Yahoo and MSN” metric. Really? The way that info was framed in these articles seems pretty fishy, “top source for traffic to [...]

Hey Google… Can I ask you something? What. the fuck. are you. DOING? Seriously…you are releasing so many SHITTY products in such rapid succession, I don’t even have time to wrap my head around them before you’re already blowing my mind with your next epic failure. Look at this: 9/23/2009 – Google Sidewiki: Great news, [...]