SEO Spam – Name & Shame
Today, I found the following in my comments queue:
Many firms charge top dollar in order to produceresults that their clients can be satisfied with. SEO is a very complicated practice of using key wordsrelated to a particular subject or topic that a business orindividual covers. These key words can be found embeddedinto the meta tags of the website. There are many packages available through SEO consultants and Internet Marketing specialists that can be tailor made to suit your requirements…..
Not only was it attempting to link back to use[dash]seo[dot]co[dot]uk but it was also placed on a completely irrelevant post, on the Remembrance Day 2009 Logos.
These jokers advertise "Guaranteed Ranking" with a small "TC Apply" caveat in a nice star shaped "web-two-point-oh-arific" button and list, amongst other items, "Reciprocal links" as one of their "Advanced Bundle" features, as well as "Customized Monthy (sic) Reports" as a "Premium Bundle" feature. You openly advertise that you won't provide reports on your performance unless clients pay a premium fee? Allow me to refer back and repeat myself, bunch... of... jokers.
Remembrance Day 2009
Following a week of Sesame Street Logos, Google amended their logo to represent Remembrance Day.
Nice to see Bing joining in also:
Another Remembrance Day post, regarding the Mail Online's refusal to honour the fallen.
Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi has died
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is reported to have died. Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds earlier this year, after claims he only had 3 months to live, suffering from prostate cancer.
Legal representative is denying reports that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has died.
Can you use parentheses () in page titles?
During a recent project involving a fair few languages for a large technology company, we came up against the fact that the local translation of an acronym, didn't really make sense to the client. We therefore wanted to ensure that the client was happy (by including our target keyword) as well as we were targeting the localised keyword to ensure we caught the traffic. Our decision: include the local word, followed by the English acronym in parentheses, or brackets.
But does Google display them in the SERPs?
A quick search brought up nothing, so the power of the blog prevailed once more:
Image of SERP showing parentheses in page titles
And there you have it, Google WILL display parentheses in page titles!
One Ivy Log
What is one ivy log? And why should you care? The truth is, you shouldn't, but you might do some time in the future.
One Ivy Log
is a concept for an SEO project we are currently working on in house. It won't mean much do anyone outside of the WPP group, but for those within, you'll need to attend the Lab Lunch on October 6th at 12 noon in the Cabot Square offices to find out exactly WHAT is going on.
One Ivy Log: Watch this space.
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