The Big Heid

As we grow as an SEO company we have started to attract a better class of link pimp selling their wares. This week yet another large company approached us offering us the ‘opportunity‘ of placing link spam onto the hallowed pages of their website. Large companies with an extensive web presence, newspaper companies for example, [...]

We recently missed out on a project because our price wasn’t fixed. The potential client said “Due to the other quote I received giving a fixed and set price, I’ve chosen that company as yours being open ended with hourly rates, I was worried this could severely mount up and way exceed budget.” On the [...]

I’ve got a confession, I nearly bought some links. I’ll quickly state I didn’t go through with it but I came very very close. To cut a long story short we were approached by a very large publisher who has a number of web properties offering article space in return for a fee. Each article [...]

The Party – Take One You arrive at a party. People are chatting, eating nibbles, topping up drinks, laughing, looking intently at someone holding court and generally gazing round the room. You grab a chair, stand on it and at the top of your voice shout “I sell cars! Does anybody want to buy a [...]

I was reading a well known forum this week. In the SEO section there’s thread after thread promoting and asking about link spamming techniques. There’s everything from software that automatically creates profiles on forums to offers of a 1000 PR5 links for thirty bob and a fried fish. There are also a shed load of [...]