March 2nd, 2010 by Goosh
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Around 2004 when I was still finding my feet in SEO and was confused by the SEO noise that was out there I played about with buying keyword rich TLD’s and tried to get traffic to them to see how well they ranked. I never really witnessed the true potential, and whilst me and a mate made a little bit of money from slapping some AdSense on them once they hit 2nd page, I can easily say that I never ranked in the giddy heights where traffic enabled me to just sit back and watch the pounds roll in.
That was a long time ago, and whilst the tactic for keyword rich TLD’s still exists, I have never truly witnessed their natural ranking potentials from scratch at the time as I didn’t understand SEO fully enough to employ all of the tactics needed. Thankfully I have been given the opportunity recently with a few TLD’s that I have been dabbling with and I can say that it is pathetically easy to get a 1st page ranking for a phrase you want to target if you have the .com/.net/.org » Read more: How I easily got 1st page for an Alcohol Addiction Keyphrase
February 18th, 2010 by Goosh
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**Disclaimer: This post as all with goosh.co.uk, contains my own views and no-one else’s – not my employers, my mothers, my friends or my pet dog – simply mine**
This is a rant; A bloody great big rant.
When I left school in 1996 I was a fresh-faced, naive and inexperienced boy entering the real world. I was given advice about a variety of things when I left and one of them was “Swot up on the company you are going to for an interview”. This advice also extended to researching the role I was applying for – it would appear that some people don’t adhere to this advice anymore.
Having partaking in several interviews in the last week and a half I am continually astounded by the audacity and bare-faced lies that people put across during an interview. The job spec we were interviewing for was a junior SEO role and required basic knowledge of:
- link building
- on-page optimisation / copywriting
Experience was preferred whilst online searching experience was necessary.
As explained in my previous post There’s a Difference Between Reading Something and Doing Something you can’t know everything – nobody can, but you certainly know something a bit more when you actually do it – the proof is in the pudding with that one. But to sit and watch some people tell lies with words they don’t understand is not only soul destroying but also infuriating! Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of bending the truth, but simply waffling around something when you don’t know it makes you look a much bigger idiot than you actually are. » Read more: Attention Prospective SEO’s: Please Know What You Are Applying For!
February 16th, 2010 by Goosh
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As part of the latest Google Grope they have chosen plain text password storage as their keyphrase of choice. I was surprised by this, but I am also passionate about it from a development point-of-view. Having worked with databases such as SQL in the past I know that password storage is high on the security requirements and under no circumstances should passwords be stored in plain text format.
The SQL standard for password storage (when I was coding) was MD5. This may have changed as I am a little rusty with the ole PHP & SQL, but once again this was a security requirement to avoid compromising passwords & hacking attempts. This was of course if the password was being stored in a database at all. » Read more: Plain Text Password Storage – Why it’s bad!
February 15th, 2010 by Goosh
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As one of the senior Online Marketing Consultants at Mediaworks Online Marketing one of my roles is the distribution of the monthly email marketing newsletter and subsequently the syndication of news on our blog. This is something I love doing, particularly when you can track opens/reads/bounces/clicks etc and really get an insight into how successful your topics and writing actually are.
When I first joined Mediaworks I was a one-man band SEO with my own blog that ranked around 3rd for a local phrase – “SEO Newcastle” – and as part of my job offer I returned the favour by offering to 301 my blog to the Mediaworks website to help boost rankings for local and national terms. That was in 2008. In 2010, as the longest serving member of staff, I simply asked if I could have my blog back to simply write about things that might not necessarily be deemed suitable for a corporate blog and I was very pleased to hear that I was actually encouraged to blog, encouraged to integrate with the SEO community and encouraged to vent my nuances on my own personal blog – and that is how I relaunched my blog. » Read more: Are You Encouraged To Be Social?
February 13th, 2010 by Goosh
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As you may have seen on the blog lately, I have been mildly amused at the spam I have been receiving. However, there is one spammer that is really starting to piss me off – and that is the make-money-quick Affiliate Millionaire.
In the past two days I have seen a variety of automated blog comments for the “Affiliate Millionaire” – I’ll be honest I briefly looked at the site and it’s the same old “do it faster, harder, stronger, longer & get rich quick with no actual effort” types. The same types that piss other SEO’s off with their Instant SEO Bullshit.
I hate automated blog comment spam – hell, even a human who is shit at it can piss me off with their unimaginative and less-than-thoughtful messages. So imagine how narked I was when I saw this:
Affiliate Millionaire - The Automated Blog Spammer
The message is exactly the same, but they have tried to dupe me by changing their name – it nearly had me, it really did! (idiots).
Anyway, Affiliate Millionaire has already got a black mark from me, so anyone who is thiking about partaking in their service (whatever it is) might as well not bother.
