Tag Archives: SEO

Another “SEO is all about scamming” piece of bullshit

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Carps

We’re due for another round of slurs about SEO (it’s every two years or so). This time it’s Some Other Dickhead who equates SEO with spammers. Continue reading →

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Tube8.com – a Study in Online Business

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Carps

Tube8.com is (in case somehow you’re unfamiliar with these things) a pornography website. Now I have no direct personal experience to speak of (*cough*) but it’s apparently quite a successful online business. Continue reading →

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Paid Links Illegal?

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Carps

OK – so that’s a misleading title, but new rules published by the Federal Trade Commission mean that anyone blogging on a product or service in the US must disclose any commercial relationship with the provider from December 1st this year. Continue reading →

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What are shit links, how do Google find them and should you bother with them?

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Carps

Linkbuilding is, was and probably always will be the single hardest part of SEO. Without links, your site just won’t acquire any equity, and without that equity you will almost certainly never rank. If you’re in niche, and beaver away at your content for a few years, you’ll probably do OK eventually, but for most commercial properties you need to spend money to acquire the links you need Continue reading →

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Shock news just in: Google.co.uk is a bit shit

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Carps

Yeah I know – like the world needs another ‘Google are bastards’ post, but I think Google is biting off more than it can chew. Continue reading →

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7 reasons people would link to you

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Carps

So you’re sat on page 9 of the SERPS for the killer phrase in your industry (“britney’s vaginoplasty”) and looking up at the first page where all the blokes there are making a killing off that phrase and you’re wondering: “how the fuck do they get all those links?” Continue reading →

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