The Big Heid

SEO, Search Marketing and The Social Web – Help & Advice

Is Your Website A Drugs Cheat?

What’s your view on Ben Johnson? Was he stupid for taking drugs to enhance his performance, leading to temporary gold medal glory, or was he just stupid for getting caught? What about Marion Jones? She had to forfeit all her medals dating back to 2000 and retired in 2007 having ‘achieved’ virtually nothing, and even [...]

Google #1 100% Guaranteed (Or I’ll Show My Arse In Woolies Window)

They say there’s one born every minute and in business this is definitely the case, at least when it comes to the web. It seems the world’s full of people who firmly believe they can spend thirty bob on a website, put zero effort into the content, offer nothing of value yet still speed up [...]

Google’s Panda in Black and White

Google’s Panda update is bedding in nicely and through all the tears, rants and shouting by the losers it’s clear to see the SERPs are all the better for the significant pruning that’s taken place. Pages of shallow content, pages which are little more than thinly veiled affiliate sales pages and all manner of half [...]

About Time I Started Writing Stuff!

It’s about time I got my act together and resurrected this fine SEO blog. OK, here goes. I’m seeing lots of activity in the business forums about link building, seemingly it continues to frustrate and confuse. One thing to bear in mind is quality. The quality of your site, the one you want people to [...]

Google Sells Links for PageRank

We are strict followers of Google’s SEO guidelines and often argue the toss in forums that it’s the best approach. We don’t buy links, we create great content, we create well formed web pages and we behave ourselves. Then I see this whilst checking out one of my articles on a third party site. I [...]

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