June 29th, 2010 by Goosh
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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to predict some of the largest yielding search results and have an SEO campaign ready for when it happens? Imagine ranking ready for the BP oil spill, Justin Bieber or the iPad? Sometimes, all it takes is a little forward thinking and you can prepare be ready to soak up the traffic.
There are several ways to earmark an emerging market. These can include:
Unfortunately, you have to either be in the right place at the right time, or simply put hard graft into planning and analyzing markets & industries. (more…)
June 28th, 2010 by Goosh
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I’m security conscious, as are the majority of Windows OS users, so the need for a good antivirus comes top of my agenda. I also wanted my machine to actually perform. That’s why I chose Panda’s Cloud Antivirus – it’s light on system resources & non-intrusive. However, it also scared the hell out of me yesterday!
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The pop up box in the screenshot above set every type of alarm off in my mind as a PC user. Over the years I’ve dealt with work colleagues having malware riddled laptops right through to family members having 0870 porn diallers racking up £400 phone bills, so everything about the screenshot above made me panic as it looks like a malware intrusion trying to get you to run a script or visit a malicious website. (more…)
June 16th, 2010 by Goosh
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Over the past couple of weeks you may have noticed Twitter starting to come undone at the seams with a higher level of poor site performance and overall downtime. Whilst regular users of twitter have experienced the Fail Whale, there was a large portion of users who experienced total outage from Twitter last week (Saturday 12th June 2010).
The question is, can Twitter recover from their very own need for reputation management (more…)
June 7th, 2010 by Goosh
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Black Hat SEO is a term that gets bandied around with everything that the “White Hats” deem to be underhanded or to appear to be giving a webmaster an unfair advantage. When a legitimate web design technique gets caught in the crossfire, it annoys me – especially when the search engines are unable to differentiate from a useful, (Google) law abiding technique and blatant abuse by spammers. (more…)
June 3rd, 2010 by Goosh
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For anybody working in an agency or a larger company it is sometimes very hard to let your voice be heard, your thoughts shared or your opinions vented. Sometimes there is a lack of platform at your current employment to blog and post your views. More often than not it is simply not company policy for staff to make their own posts, particularly with larger corporations where staff simply abuse the power.
I for one am a big fan of people setting up their own blogs, especially if their interests are in the same field as their employment. It’s a tough act to balance, but the benefits are there for all to see – for both their employers and themselves. (more…)
Kev Strong a.k.a Goosh is an SEO based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. With several years of experience in XHMTL and PHP, Kev is currently an Online Marketing Consultant providing SEO at Newcastle based 
